biography
pronunciation:
[saragat]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1988)
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| biography:
| Italian politician and president (1964–71), born in Turin, Piedmont, NW Italy. He was a member of the Socialist Party from 1922, and went to Austria in 1926, where he encountered their reformist brand of Marxism. Back in Italy, he was arrested but escaped (1944), became ambassador to France (1945–6), and was president of the Constituent Assembly (1946–7). In 1947 he caused a split in the Socialist Party when he founded and became leader of the Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani, or PSLI (Socialist Italian Workers Party). This was to become the Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano, or PSDI (Italian Socialist Democratic Party). He supported the Christian Democrat governments of the time, and later was foreign affairs minister (1963–4) in Moro's centrosinistra (centre-left) coalition government. He held a number of ministerial posts, was vice-prime minister, and president of the republic. |
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