Fernando Tambroni

Infobox Prime Minister
name = Fernando Tambroni

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order = 51st
President of the Council of Ministers of Italy
president = Giovanni Gronchi
term_start = 25 March 1960
term_end = 26 July 1960
predecessor = Antonio Segni
successor = Amintore Fanfani
order2 = Minister of the Interior
primeminister2 = Antonio Segni
Adone Zoli
Amintore Fanfani
term_start2 = July 6, 1955
term_end2 = February 15, 1959
predecessor2 = Mario Scelba
successor2 = Antonio Segni
nationality = Italian
birth_date = November 25, 1901
death_date = death date|1963|2|18|mf=y
birth_place = Ascoli Piceno, Italy
death_place = Rome, Italy
party = Christian Democracy

Fernando Tambroni Armaroli (November 25, 1901 – Rome February 18, 1963) was an Italian politician of the Christian Democratic Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy briefly in 1960, best remembered for the riots which resulted from the possibility that he might look to the Movimento Sociale Italiano for support against the parliamentary left.

Biography

Tambroni was born in Ascoli Piceno (Marche).

He was member of the Italian Constituent Assembly and was later elected to the new Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1948-1958. In 1953 he was Minister of Merchant Marine, a position he held under two more governments until 1954. The following year he was Minister of the Interior under the first government of Antonio Segni, being confirmed under the following ones, led by Adone Zoli and Amintore Fanfani respectively.

In 1959, again under Segni, he was minister of Economy. In 1960, sponsored by President Giovanni Gronchi, he became Prime Minister. Tamboni's politics appeared soon strongly right-winged: having been abandoned the alliance with the Italian Socialist Party, he was elected with votes coming also from the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI). On May 21, 1960, a street assembly led by the communist leader was stopped by police, with the support of the government. This caused a series of riots. Later the Minister of Culture Umberto Tupini censored Federico Fellini's "La dolce vita" and other "shameful films".

The most controversial decision of his mandate, however, was the permission to MSI to held its national congress in Genoa, one of the capitals of Italian Resistance against Fascism. This move was considered a further and unacceptable opening to the former Fascists to the doors of the government. On June 30, 1960, a large demonstration summoned by the left-wing CGIL trade union and by other democratic forces in the streets of Genoa was heavily suppressed by the Italian police. Other popular demonstrations in Reggio Emilia, Rome, Palermo, Catania, Licata saw again violent intervention by the police, causing several deaths: eventually, after grievances coming also by some sectors of Democrazia Cristiana, Tambroni was forced to resign, having been in charge only 116 days.

He died in 1963.

External links

* [http://www.linearossage.it/leforze.htm Photogallery documenting Italian police's interventions in Genoa on June 30, 1960] it icon