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Enrico Manca

Enrico Manca
Minister of Foreign Trade
In office
4 April 1980 – 26 May 1981
Prime MinisterFrancesco Cossiga
Arnaldo Forlani
Preceded byGaetano Stammati
Succeeded byNicola Capria
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
25 May 1972 – 4 December 1986
ConstituencyPerugia
In office
2 July 1987 – 4 August 1987
ConstituencyPerugia
In office
23 April 1992 – 14 April 1994
ConstituencyPerugia
Personal details
Born(1931-11-27)27 November 1931
Rome, Italy
Died5 July 2011(2011-07-05) (aged 79)
Rome, Italy
Political partyPSI (until 1994)
PSR (1994–1996)
PS (1996–1998)
SDI (1998–2002)
DL (2002–2007)
PD (2007–2011)
ProfessionPolitician, journalist

Enrico Manca (27 November 1931 – 5 July 2011) was an Italian politician.

Biography

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Marca was born in Rome and graduated with a degree in law from the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1959, Manca joined the Italian state broadcaster RAI and from 1961 to 1972 was editor of Giornale Radio Rai, central editor of the TV news, and director of cultural television services. A member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), he was elected a deputy for the first time in 1972 and served as Minister of Foreign Trade in the Cossiga II Cabinet and in the Forlani Cabinet. His name was found on the lists of members of the Propaganda Due (P2) Masonic lodge (card number 864) in 1981, although Manca himself repeatedly denied any adherence to the lodge.[1] On 4 December 1986, he resigned as a deputy due to a conflict of interests, having agreed that year to serve as the next president of RAI. He was re-elected in 1987 but again had to resign due to the incompatibility that arose from his new position. He was the head of RAI until 1992, when he returned to parliament having been once again re-elected as a Deputy. In 1994, Manca founded the Reformist Socialist Party (PRS) with his PSI colleague and erstwhile P2 member Fabrizio Cicchitto, where he remained until 1996, when he joined the Socialist Party (PS). Later, he became a member of the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) and in 2002 of The Daisy (DL). In 2007, he joined the Democratic Party (PD), in which he remained a member until his death in 2011.[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ "ITALIAN ELITE EMBROILED IN A SCANDAL (Published 1981)". 24 May 1981. Archived from the original on 30 June 2024. Retrieved 22 December 2024.
  2. ^ Roberto Gervaso, Bettino segretario, Il Messaggero, 23 maggio 2003: "Regista dell'operazione, il calabrese Giacomo Mancini, già segretario del PSI, uomo volitivo e pragmatico. Bettino gli stava bene, ma il suo placet non bastava. Ci voleva anche quello dei demartiniani che, non amando Nenni, non amavano il suo erede designato. A questo punto, scese in pista il cavallerizzo umbro Enrico Manca, delfino del professore napoletano, che con quei voltafaccia che in politica si chiamano ripensamenti, s'impegnò a sostenere Craxi. Il suo favore portò con sé quello di Claudio Signorile, "leader emergente della Sinistra". La direzione votò e Bettino Craxi ebbe ventitré "si", nessun "no", e otto astensioni. Il compagno Mosca, soddisfatto, confidò a Mancini, che non la pensava allo stesso modo: "Bettino non conta un cazzo e può mettere tutti d'accordo"."
  3. ^ Notizia della morte da La Repubblica
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