Fernando Tambroni

Fernando Tambroni
36th Prime Minister of Italy
In office 25 March 1960 – 26 July 1960
President	Giovanni Gronchi
Preceded by	Antonio Segni
Succeeded by	Amintore Fanfani
Italian Minister of the Interior
In office 6 July 1955 – 15 February 1959
Prime Minister	Antonio Segni Adone Zoli Amintore Fanfani
Preceded by	Mario Scelba
Succeeded by	Antonio Segni
Italian Minister of Budget
In office 15 February 1959 – 26 July 1960
Prime Minister	Antonio Segni Himself
Preceded by	Giuseppe Medici
Succeeded by	Giuseppe Pella
Italian Minister of the Treasury
In office 15 February 1959 – 25 March 1960
Prime Minister	Antonio Segni
Preceded by	Giulio Andreotti
Succeeded by	Paolo Emilio Taviani
Italian Minister of Merchant Navy
In office 17 August 1953 – 6 July 1955
Prime Minister	Giuseppe Pella Amintore Fanfani Mario Scelba
Preceded by	Bernardo Mattarella
Succeeded by	Gennaro Cassiani
Personal details
Born	25 November 1901 Ascoli Piceno, The Marches, Italy
Died	18 February 1963 Rome, Latium, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Italian People's Party (1919–1923) National Fascist Party (1926–1943) Christian Democracy (1943–1963)

Fernando Tambroni Armaroli (25 November 1901 – 18 February 1963) was a right-wing^[1] Italian politician of the Christian Democratic Party. He was a lawyer, a prominent supporter of law and order policies,^[2] and for a brief time in 1960, the 36th Prime Minister of Italy. His role as prime minister is 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 a 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 formed the Tambroni Cabinet and became Prime Minister. Tambroni's politics soon appeared strongly right-wing: having abandoned the alliance with the Italian Socialist Party, he was elected with votes coming also from the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), the liberals and the monarchists. On 21 May 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 street fights in 1960 at Genoa.

The most controversial decision of his mandate, however, was the permission to MSI to hold 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 of the doors of the government. On 30 June 1960, a large demonstration summoned by the left-wing CGIL trade union and by other leftist forces in the streets of Genoa was heavily suppressed by the Italian police. Other popular demonstrations in Reggio Emilia, Rome, Palermo, Catania, Licata again saw violent intervention by the police, causing several deaths. Eventually, after grievances coming also from some sectors of Democrazia Cristiana, Tambroni was forced to resign, having been in charge only 116 days.

He died a few years later in Rome due to cardiac arrest.

References

1. Hilary Partridge (15 October 1998). Italian Politics Today. Manchester University Press. pp. 93–. ISBN 978-0-7190-4944-6. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
2. Paul Ginsborg A History of Contemporary Italy: Society and Politics, 1943-1988, pp.256-7

External links

• Photogallery documenting Italian police's interventions in Genoa on 30 June 1960 (Italian)