Background
De Mita was born in Nusco, in the Avellinese hinterland.
mayor politician prime minister
De Mita was born in Nusco, in the Avellinese hinterland.
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Background and earlier career
During the next decade he served as Minister of Industry and then as Minister of Foreign Trade. De Mita became chairman of the party in 1982 at a time when its power was declining. He was re-elected in 1986 with 60% support from the party.
Prime Minister of Italy
The Christian Democrats did well in the elections of 1987.
De Mita waited a year to become Prime Minister, and then served as Prime Minister for a year, maintaining the party chairmanship. At the beginning of that service, on 16 April 1988, in Forlì, Red Brigades killed Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of De Mita.
De Mita returned in Parliament, after a lag of two years, in 1996 (and then re-elected in 2001 and 2006). He headed the Olive Tree"s list in his region in 2006, and he participated in the transformation that coalition into a single party (the Democratic Party).
Following an attempt by the chairmanship (presided by Walter Veltroni) at rejuvenating the ranks of the Democratic Party, De Mita was refused a place on the ballot for the 2008 general election, on the grounds that a total of 44 years and 9 months of active presence in the Italian Parliament was long enough and that more space was needed to be given to younger candidates.
Offended by the decision, he left the party in retaliation, and joined the Union of the Centre. After the 2008 elections, De Mita was not elected at the Italian Senate, but he was nominated as the Campania coordinator of the party. On 25 May 2014 De Mita was elected as mayor of Nusco, his native town.
As a young man De Mita joined Christian Democracy and entered politics. He rose through the ranks of the party, becoming a member of its council in 1956, a member of Parliament in 1963 and a member of the Italian cabinet in 1973. Later political roles
He then joined the Italian People"s Party and later Democracy is Freedom - The Daisy, party of which he is regional coordinator for Campania.
He served as the 47th Prime Minister of Italy from 1988 to 1989 and as Member of the European Parliament from 2009 to 2013.