Arnaldo Forlani
Arnaldo Forlani | |
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Forlani in 1983 | |
| Prime Minister of Italy | |
| In office 18 October 1980 – 28 June 1981 | |
| President | Sandro Pertini |
| Preceded by | Francesco Cossiga |
| Succeeded by | Giovanni Spadolini |
| Deputy Prime Minister of Italy | |
| In office 4 August 1983 – 18 April 1987 | |
| Prime Minister | Bettino Craxi |
| Preceded by | Ugo La Malfa |
| Succeeded by | Giuliano Amato |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 30 July 1976 – 5 August 1979 | |
| Prime Minister | Giulio Andreotti |
| Preceded by | Mariano Rumor |
| Succeeded by | Franco Maria Malfatti |
| Minister of Defence | |
| In office 23 November 1974 – 30 July 1976 | |
| Prime Minister | Aldo Moro |
| Preceded by | Giulio Andreotti |
| Succeeded by | Vittorio Lattanzio |
| Secretary of Christian Democracy | |
| In office 22 February 1989 – 12 October 1992 | |
| Preceded by | Ciriaco De Mita |
| Succeeded by | Mino Martinazzoli |
| In office 9 November 1969 – 17 June 1973 | |
| Preceded by | Flaminio Piccoli |
| Succeeded by | Amintore Fanfani |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 12 June 1958 – 14 April 1994 | |
| Constituency | Ancona |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 December 1925 |
| Died | 6 July 2023 (aged 97) Rome, Italy |
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Alma Maria (died 2015) |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | University of Urbino |
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Arnaldo Forlani (Italian: [arˈnaldo forˈlaːni] ⓘ; 8 December 1925 – 6 July 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.
A member of the right-wing faction of the Christian Democracy (DC) party, Forlani was one of the most prominent Italian politicians from the 1970s to early 1990s. He led the DC party on two occasions: between 1969 and 1973, and between 1989 and 1992. Forlani's permiership, which lasted less than a year, was strongly marked by the 1980 Irpinia earthquake and the Propaganda Due scandal, the latter causing his resignation in June 1981. His political career ended in the 1990s after the Tangentopoli scandal and a failed candidacy for president of the Italian Republic.