biography
pronunciation:
[kraksee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1934–2000)
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| biography:
| Italian statesman and prime minister (1983–7), born in Milan, N Italy. He was active in the Socialist Youth Movement, and joined the Central Committee of the Italian Socialist Party in 1957. A member of the National Executive in 1965, he became deputy secretary (1970–6), general secretary (1976), and Italy's first Socialist prime minister. He was involved in a major corruption scandal in 1992 which ended his political career. |
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