Oscar Mammì

Oscar Mammì (born 25 October 1926) is an Italian former politician, a member of the Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italian, or PRI) who was minister of Mail and Telecommunications from 1987 to 1991.

Biography

Mammì was born in Rome and graduated in Economics and Trade. He was elected for PRI in the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1972. After having been undersecretary of Industry and Trade, he was first Minister of Relationships with the Parliament in the Craxi I and Craxi II Cabinets, and later Minister of Mail and Telecommunications in the Goria, De Mita and Andreotti VI Cabinets.

His name is connected with the so-called "Mammì Bill", issued in 1990, which was the first Italian comprehensive law dealing with media and TV and Radio advertisement. The law was accused of granting a substantial monopoly on public television to Silvio Berlusconi. The Italian Constitutional Court later in 1994 as anti-constitutional a comma of the law which allowed Berlusconi to own three TV network; however, there was no measure to change the situation afterwards^[1]

In 2005 he played in a TV fiction on Rai 3 Italian state channel.

References

↑ "La Legge Mammì"

Sources

Biography at Italian TV & Radio History website (Italian)

Craxi I Cabinet (1983–1986)

Forlani Romita/Vizzini Granelli Forte/Fortuna Scotti/Zamberletti Biondi/Valerio Zanone Gaspari De Vito Mammì Andreotti Scalfaro Martinazzoli Longo/Craxi/Romita Visentini Goria Spadolini Falcucci Nicolazzi Pandolfi Signorile Gava Altissimo Degan Capria Carta Darida De Michelis Gullotti Lagorio

Craxi II Cabinet (1986–1987)

Forlani Vizzini Granelli Fabbri Zamberletti Gaspari De Vito Mammì Andreotti Scalfaro Rognoni Romita Visentini Goria Spadolini Falcucci Nicolazzi Pandolfi Signorile Gava Zanone Donat-Cattin Formica Degan Darida Gullotti De Michelis Capria De Lorenzo

Goria Cabinet (1987–1988)

Amato Gunnella Iervolino La Pergola Gaspari Ruberti Santuz Tognoli Mattarella Andreotti Fanfani Vassalli Colombo Gava Zanone Galloni De Rose Pandolfi Mannino Mammì Battaglia Donat-Cattin Ruggiero Prandini Vizzini Carraro Ruffolo Formica

De Mita Cabinet (1988–1989)

De Michelis Maccanico Iervolino Lattanzio La Pergola Cirino Pomicino Gaspari Mattarella Tognoli Andreotti Gava Vassalli Fanfani Colombo Amato Zanone Galloni Ferri Mannino Mammì Santuz Battaglia Donat-Cattin Ruggiero Prandini Formica Fracanzani Bono Parrino Carraro Ruffolo Ruberti

Andreotti VI Cabinet (1989–1991)

Martelli Maccanico Iervolino Romita Lattanzio Gaspari Misasi Marongiu Conte Sterpa Gava De Michelis Scotti Vassalli Formica Cirino Pomicino Carli Martinazzoli Rognoni Mattarella Bianco Prandini Mannino Saccomandi Bernini Mammì Battaglia De Lorenzo Ruggiero Vizzini Fracanzani Piga Donat-Cattin Facchiano Carraro Tognoli Ruffolo Ruberti

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