Oronzo Reale

Oronzo Reale
Minister of Justice
In office
23 November 1974  12 February 1976
Personal details
Born 1902
Lecce
Died 1988 (aged 85-86)
Nationality Italian
Political party Italian Republican Party

Oronzo Reale (1902 1988) was an Italian politician, who served as justice minister in the 1960s and 1970s.

Early life

Reale was born in 1902.[1]

Career

Reale was a member and the head of the Republican Party.[2][3] He served as the secretary of the party.[4] In the 1970s he tried the French model to reorganize the party for which he set up a committee.[5]

Reale also assumed cabinet posts. On 4 December 1963, he became justice minister of Italy.[1] He was reappointed justice minister to the coalition government led by prime minister Aldo Moro on 24 February 1966.[6] His term lasted until 24 June 1968.[1] Then Reale served as finance minister from 12 December 1968 to 5 August 1969.[1]

He was secondly appointed justice minister on 27 March 1970.[1] His term ended in March 1971.[3] His third and last term as justice minister was from 23 November 1974 to 12 February 1976.[1] During his third term as justice minister, Reale developed a public law order, called Legge Reale or more formally public law order 152, and introduced it on 22 May 1975 as a response to bombings organized by right-wing groups in Brescia.[7] It expanded the powers of Italian security forces.[7][8]

Death

Reale died in 1988.[1]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Italian ministries". Rulers. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  2. "Small party quits Italy coalition". The Pittsburgh Press (Rome). UPI. 28 February 1971. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Robb, Inez (2 July 1963). "Romans talked dryly with JFK spy case forces". The Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  4. Norman Kogan (1963). The Politics of Italian Foreign Policy. New York: Praeger. Retrieved 3 January 2014.  via Questia (subscription required)
  5. Leonard Weinberg (1995). The transformation of Italian communism. Transaction Publishers. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-4128-4030-9. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  6. "Italian crisis ends under new coalition". The Montreal Gazette (Rome). Reuters. 24 February 1966. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Richard L. Clutterbuck (1990). Terrorism, Drugs, and Crime in Europe: After 1992. Routledge. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-415-05443-0. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  8. Paul Wilkinson (28 January 2011). Terrorism Versus Democracy: The Liberal State Response. Taylor & Francis. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-136-83546-9. Retrieved 19 April 2013.