Carlo Scognamiglio Pasini

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Carlo Scognamiglio Pasini (born November 27, 1944) is a former Italian politician. He is an university professor, economist and he was chancellor of Luiss University (1984-1992).

In 1992 he became Senator for the Italian Liberal Party (PLI), then in 1994 he moved to Forza Italia of Silvio Berlusconi; during the twelfth session of the Italian parliament, Scognamiglio was elected Chairman of Senate, defeating Giovanni Spadolini for one ballot (April 16, 1994 to May 8, 1996).

In 1996 he was elected again with Forza Italia, but in 1998 he joined to the project Democratic Union of Republic (Udr) of former president Francesco Cossiga. When Massimo D'Alema became premier, Carlo Scognamiglio was minister of defense from October 21, 1998 to December 22, 1999.

He was not elected again in the 2001 general Italian election, when he joined with European Democracy of Sergio D'Antoni and he tried again for the European Parliament in 2004 with an electoral list with Mario Segni (the Pact of Liberal Democrats), but it took only 0.5% of ballots.

Preceded by
Giovanni Spadolini
President of the Italian Senate
1994-1996
Succeeded by
Nicola Mancino
Preceded by
Beniamino Andreatta
Italian Minister of Defense
1998-1999
Succeeded by
Sergio Mattarella
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