Massimo D'Alema

Massimo D'Alema
Prime Minister of Italy
In office
21 October 1998 – 26 April 2000
PresidentOscar Luigi Scalfaro
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
DeputySergio Mattarella
Preceded byRomano Prodi
Succeeded byGiuliano Amato
Deputy Prime Minister of Italy
In office
17 May 2006 – 8 May 2008
Prime MinisterRomano Prodi
Preceded byGiulio Tremonti
Succeeded byAngelino Alfano
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office
17 May 2006 – 8 May 2008
Prime MinisterRomano Prodi
Preceded byGianfranco Fini
Succeeded byFranco Frattini
Vice-President of the Socialist International
In office
29 October 2003 – 29 August 2012
PresidentAntónio Guterres
George Papandreou
In office
11 September 1996 – 7 November 1999
PresidentPierre Mauroy
Party political offices
President of the Democrats of the Left
In office
6 November 1998 – 14 October 2007
Preceded byGiglia Tedesco Tatò
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Secretary of the Democrats of the Left
In office
12 February 1998 – 6 November 1998
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byWalter Veltroni
Secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left
In office
1 July 1994 – 12 February 1998
Preceded byAchille Occhetto
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Secretary of the Italian Communist Youth Federation
In office
3 April 1975 – 12 June 1980
Preceded byRenzo Imbeni
Succeeded byMarco Fumagalli
Parliamentary offices
Chair of the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic
In office
26 January 2010 – 15 March 2013
Preceded byFrancesco Rutelli
Succeeded byGiacomo Stucchi
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
28 April 2006 – 14 March 2013
ConstituencyApulia
In office
2 July 1987 – 19 July 2004
ConstituencyLecce–Brindisi–Taranto
(1987–1994)
Casarano (1994–2004)
Member of the European Parliament
In office
20 July 2004 – 27 April 2006
ConstituencySouthern Italy
Personal details
Born (1949-04-20) 20 April 1949 (age 75)
Rome, Italy
Political partyPCI (1963–1991)
PDS (1991–1998)
DS (1998–2007)
PD (2007–2017)
Art.1 (2017–2023)
SpouseLinda Giuva
Children2
Websitewww.massimodalema.it

Massimo D'Alema (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmassimo daˈlɛːma]; born 20 April 1949) is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000.[1] He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008.[2] D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS).[1][2] Earlier in his career, D'Alema was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was the first former Communist party member to become prime minister of a NATO country and the only former PCI prime minister of Italy.[1][2] Due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic, he is referred to as Leader Maximo ("Maximum Leader").[3][4][5] He is also the author of several books.[1][2]

A member of the PCI since 1963, D'Alema was a member of the party's central committee and then of the leadership and party secretariat; from 1975 to 1980, he was also secretary of the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI).[6] He was supportive of Achille Occhetto's turning point that dissolved the PCI and established the PDS, and he presided over the establishment of The Olive Tree coalition that won the 1996 Italian general election and the transformation of the PDS into the Democrats of the Left (DS) in 1998, the same year he became prime minister.[1][2] A member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 2004 and then from 2006 to 2013, he was also a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2006. He joined the Democratic Party (PD) upon its foundation in 2007. He opposed Matteo Renzi's secretariat and was contrasted with the Renziani wing within the party, which he left in 2017 to become a founder of Article One.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d e Novelli, Claudio (2000). "D'Alema, Massimo". Enciclopedia Italiana (in Italian). Vol. VI Appendice. Retrieved 26 July 2023 – via Treccani.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "D'Alèma, Massimo". Treccani (in Italian). 2018. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
  3. ^ "Un leader Maximo senza partito". La Stampa (in Italian). 20 April 2009. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  4. ^ Sorgi, Marcello (27 January 2010). "D'Alema, il Lider Maximo che non tramonta mai". La Stampa (in Italian). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  5. ^ Olivieri, Maria Teresa (31 July 2017). "Ue, un posto per il leader maxi o D'Alema". Avanti! (in Italian). Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  6. ^ "Massimo D'Alema". Atlante (in Italian). 2020. Retrieved 26 July 2023.