Ottaviano Del Turco

Italian politician (1944–2024)

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Ottaviano Del Turco (7 November 1944 – 22 August 2024) was an Italian politician.
Career After a career in trade unionism in the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), Del Turco rose to the top of Bettino Craxi's Italian Socialist Party (PSI) before it was swept away in the Tangentopoli scandals of 1992–94.
He was Minister of Finance in the cabinet led by the then prime minister Giuliano Amato from 2000 to 2001.
On 20 July 2004, he was elected chair of the committee on employment and social affairs at the parliament.
In 2007, he founded the Reformist Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Riformista ) movement within the SDI, with which he left the SDI and became a member of the Democratic Party ( Partito Democratico , PD) at the PD's founding congress on 14 October 2007.

Ottaviano Del Turco (7 November 1944 – 22 August 2024) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Early life

Del Turco was born in Collelongo on 7 November 1944.

Career

After a career in trade unionism in the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), Del Turco rose to the top of Bettino Craxi's Italian Socialist Party (PSI) before it was swept away in the Tangentopoli scandals of 1992–94. Del Turco was the president of the Antimafia Commission from December 1996 to May 2000. He was Minister of Finance in the cabinet led by the then prime minister Giuliano Amato from 2000 to 2001.

He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 on the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) ticket and sat with the Party of European Socialists group. On 20 July 2004, he was elected chair of the committee on employment and social affairs at the parliament.

On 4 April 2005, he won the election as president of his native Abruzzo as candidate for centre-left coalition The Union, and on 1 May resigned his seat in the European Parliament to take up this post. In 2007, he founded the Reformist Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Riformista) movement within the SDI, with which he left the SDI and became a member of the Democratic Party (Partito Democratico, PD) at the PD's founding congress on 14 October 2007. He was a member of the 45-strong national council. On 16 July 2008, he resigned as President of Abruzzo, and left the national council of the PD.