Arnaldo Forlani
Arnaldo Forlani (1925 – 2023) was an Italian politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy from 1980 to 1981. He also held the office of Deputy Prime Minister of Italy], Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Defence. In 1981, together with Bettino Craxi and Giulio Andreotti, Forlani promoted the Pentapartito, the political coalition between the five major Italian parties that ruled Italy between 1981 and 1991. At the time of his death in 2023, he was both the oldest living and the longest-lived Italian prime minister.
Quotes
[edit]- (About Carlo Donat-Cattin) His intransigence always had popular roots and connections. Alien to secular temptations, freed from instrumental conventions, he strove toward lofty ideals. A clear religion. His lesson: never give in.
- Ai problemi della gente dedicò le energie migliori, Terzafase, n. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. 4-5.
Quotes about
[edit]- Andreotti did everything and the opposite of everything; Forlani did nothing and the opposite of nothing.
- Gianni Baget Bozzo, quoted in Roberto Gervaso, Ve li racconto io, Milano, Mondadori, 2006, p. 47. ISBN 88-04-54931-9
- The real Italian anomaly is not Berlusconi, but that Forlani is doing community service and D'Alema is in the Prime Minister's office.
- Pier Ferdinando Casini, quoted in Il Messaggero, 19 gennaio 1999.
- When I see ministers using Twitter like misfits in work chats use WhatsApp—smiling faces, waving hands, dancing sluts—I feel a poignant nostalgia for Forlani.
- q:it:Guia Soncini, from a post, twitter.com, 12 July 2018
- We won't be late today. We must allow the secretary to go to the Pope. At least for a blessing: he needs it. In every respect.
- Carlo Donat-Cattin, quoted in Terzafase N°. 4, year IX, April 1991, pp. I-VIII.
External links
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