Bruno Villabruna

Bruno Villabruna

Bruno Villabruna was an Italian lawyer and liberal politician. Born in 1884 in Belluno, near Turin, he was first elected to parliament in 1921. After the rise to power of the fascists, he joined, unlike many other liberals, the democratic opposition around old leader Giovanni Giolitti and in 1924 refused to candidate himself in the fascist-led national union list. Dissolved all political parties in early 1925, he retired from political life and kept on being a lawyer.

In July 1943, with the Mussolini regime having been overthrown, he was appointed mayor of Turin, but had to resign after 45 days because of the German occupation. Liberated Northern Italy in 1945, he became a member of the Consulta Nazionale and in 1946 was elected to the Assemblea Costituente. He failed being elected to the first parliament of the Italian Republic in 1948, but few month later he was appointed Secretary General of the Italian Liberal Party (PLI), that went through a deep crisis caused by his extreme right-wing predecessor Roberto Lucifero. Villabruna tried to convince the left-wing dissident group Movimento Liberale Indipendente (MLI) led by Count Nicolò Carandini to return into the ranks of PLI, which they had left in early 1948, but only in late 1951 this operation came to a successful conclusion.

In 1954 Villabruna became Minister of Industry and Trade in the Scelba government, and let the leadership of the Liberal Party to Giovanni Malagodi, with whom he came into serious quarrels few time later. In 1955 he left the PLI together with Carandini and was among the founders of the Radical Party. From 1958 to 1960 he was Secretary General of this party, retiring definitely to private life after its dissolution in 1962.

Villabruna died in 1971 in Torre Pellice, Pinerolo.

Literature

* Blasberg, Christian, Die Liberale Linke und das Schicksal der Dritten Kraft im italienischen Zentrismus, 1947-1951. Frankfurt/Main 2008.

External links

* [http://www.radicalparty.org/history/chron/1955_in.htm http://www.radicalparty.org/history/chron/1955_in.htm]
* [http://www.radioradicale.it/exagora/1-lorganizzazione-del-partito-radicale-1955-1962 http://www.radioradicale.it/exagora/1-lorganizzazione-del-partito-radicale-1955-1962]


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