Domenico Contestabile

Domenico Contestabile

Domenico Contestabile (11 August 1937 – 28 October 2022) was an Italian lawyer and politician. A member of Forza Italia, he served in the Senate of the Republic from 1994 to 2006.

Quotes

• I never held any major positions in the PSI, but I had the honor of being a friend of Craxi.

• Quoted in Dino Martirano, Contestabile: «Cacciato con una telefonata», Corriere della sera, 7 March 2006, p. 13.

• I’ll miss politics, but it’s no tragedy. I’m going back to my studies, to medieval philosophy.

• Quoted in Dino Martirano, Contestabile: «Cacciato con una telefonata», Corriere della sera, 7 March 2006, p. 13.

• I will miss certain moments. I, who had been in the PSI until the public prosecutor’s office dissolved it in ’92, remember well the months spent at the Ministry of Justice: together with Minister Biondi, we were the protagonists of the failed—though noble—attempt to bring the justice system back on track.

• Quoted in Dino Martirano, Contestabile: «Cacciato con una telefonata», Corriere della sera, 7 March 2006, p. 13.

• Once the [PSI] party was dissolved, some became Muslims, some Jews, some Catholics. But we have always remained socialists.

• Quoted in Dino Martirano, Contestabile: «Cacciato con una telefonata», Corriere della sera, 7 March 2006, p. 13.