The Amato II Cabinet was the 56th cabinet of the Italian Republic, the fourth and last cabinet of the XIII Legislature. It held office from 25 April 2000 to 11 June 2001, a total of 412 days, or 1 year, 1 month and 17 days.

Composition of the government:

• Independents: President of the Council of Ministers
  Prime minister of Italy
  The Prime Minister of Italy is the head of government of the Italian Republic...
  
  , 2 Ministers and 3 Secretaries
• The Olive Tree: 22 Ministers and 53 Secretaries
  • Democrats of the Left
    Democrats of the Left
    The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic Italian political party and part of the Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007...
    
     (DS): 7 Ministers and 19 Secretaries
  • Italian People’s Party (PPI): 5 Ministers and 12 Secretaries
  • The Democrats (Dem): 3 Ministers and 7 Secretaries
  • Federation of the Greens
    Federation of the Greens
    The Federation of the Greens is a green political party in Italy, which includes also a large eco-socialist faction. Since 2009 the party leader is Angelo Bonelli.-Early years:...
    
     (FdV): 2 Ministers and 2 Secretaries
  • Party of Italian Communists
    Party of Italian Communists
    The Party of Italian Communists is a communist political party in Italy. Its long-time leader is Oliviero Diliberto.-Foundation and early years:...
    
     (PdCI): 2 Ministers and 2 Secretaries
  • Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEur): 1 Minister and 5 Secretaries
  • Italian Renewal
    Italian Renewal
    The Italian Renewal was a liberal-centrist political party in Italy.It was founded in 1996 by Lamberto Dini along with some former Liberals, Socialists, Christian Democrats, Republicans and Social Democrats...
    
     (RI): 1 Minister and 4 Secretaries
  • Italian Democratic Socialists
    Italian Democratic Socialists
    The Italian Democratic Socialists were a small social-democratic political party in Italy. Led by Enrico Boselli, the party was the direct continuation of the Italian Socialists, the legal successor of the historical Italian Socialist Party...
    
     (SDI): 1 Minister and 2 Secretaries

Obtained the confidence of the House of Deputies on 28 April 2000 with 319 votes in favour and 298 against.

Obtained the confidence of the Senate on 3 May 2000 with 179 votes in favour, 112 against and 2 abstentions.

Resigned on 31 May 2001, at the end of the legislature.

President of the Council of Ministers

Prime minister of Italy

The Prime Minister of Italy is the head of government of the Italian Republic...

 

Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group. He is commonly... (Independent)

Secretaries to the President of the Council of Ministers

Gianclaudio Bressa (PPI), Raffaele Cananzi (PPI), Vannino Chiti (DS), Dario Franceschini Dario Franceschini Dario Franceschini is an Italian lawyer, writer, and politician, who served as the second leader of the Democratic Party. He has been a prominent member of the Italian People's Party , of the Daisy and the first Deputy Secretary of the Democratic Party...  (PPI), Elena Montecchi (DS)

Foreign Affairs 

Minister	Lamberto Dini (RI)
Secretaries	Franco Danieli (Dem), Umberto Ranieri (DS), Rino Serri (DS), Ugo Intini Ugo Intini Ugo Intini is an Italian politician.A long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party and close aide of Bettino Craxi, he founded the Socialist Party in 1996 and joined the Italian Democratic Socialists in 1998....  (SDI)

Interior

Italian Minister of the Interior

This is a list of Italian Ministers of the Interior since 1861.-Kingdom of Italy:-Italian Republic:...

 

Minister	Enzo Bianco Enzo Bianco Enzo Bianco is an Italian politician and a member of Daisy-Democracy is Freedom. He was Minister of the Interior and Mayor of Catania.-External links:* at Italian Senate, XIII Legislature...  (Dem)
Secretaries	Aniello Di Nardo (Dem), Massimo Brutti (DS), Gian Franco Schietroma (SDI), Severino Lavagnini (PPI)

Justice

Italian Minister of Justice

This is a list of Italian Ministers of Justice since 1946.-External links:* *...

 

Minister	Piero Fassino Piero Fassino Pietro Franco "Piero" Fassino is an Italian politician with the Democratic Party, the current Mayor of Turin and a former national secretary of the Democrats of the Left party.-Biography:...  (DS)
Secretaries	Franco Corleone (FdV), Marianna Li Calzi (RI), Rocco Maggi (Dem)

Treasury, Budget and Economic Programme

Minister	Vincenzo Visco Vincenzo Visco Vincenzo Alfonso Visco is an Italian politician and economist who has served as a government minister.He gained an MSc in Economics at the University of York in 1969 and was awarded an honorary degree in 2004....  (DS)
Secretaries	Dino Piero Giarda (Independent), Gianfranco Morgando (PPI), Santino Pagano (UDEur), Bruno Solaroli (DS)

Finance

Minister	Ottaviano Del Turco Ottaviano Del Turco Ottaviano Del Turco is an Italian politician. After a career in trade unionism in the Italian General Confederation of Labour Del Turco rose to the top of Bettino Craxi's Italian Socialist Party before it was swept away in the Tangentopoli scandals of 1992-94.Del Turco was the president of the...  (SDI)
Secretaries	Natale D'Amico (RI), Alfiero Grandi (DS), Armando Veneto Armando Veneto Armando Veneto is an Italian politician. He was a member of the European Parliament from May 8, 2006, when he took up a seat vacated after the 2006 Italian general election, until the 2009 European elections. He represented the Popular-UDEUR within the EPP-ED parliamentary group.-References:...  (PPI, until 09/02/01)

Industry, Commerce and Craft

Minister	Enrico Letta Enrico Letta Enrico Letta is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election for the Olive Tree coalition...  (PPI)
Secretaries	Cesare De Piccoli (DS), Stefano Passigli (DS), Mauro Fabris (UDEur)

Foreign Trade

Minister	Enrico Letta Enrico Letta Enrico Letta is an Italian politician, and was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in the 2006 General election for the Olive Tree coalition...  (PPI) Ad interim

Public Instruction

Ministry of Public Education (Italy)

The Ministry of Public Education was was the organ of the Italian Republic devoted to the administration of the national education system...

 

Minister	Tullio De Mauro Tullio De Mauro Tullio De Mauro is an Italian linguist and politician.He was born in Torre Annunziata, Province of Naples. He in 1963 he published the monumental Storia linguistica dell'Italia unita...  (Independent)
Secretaries	Giuseppe Gambale (Dem), Silvia Barbieri (DS), Carla Rocchi (FdV, until 04/08/00), Giovanni Manzini (PPI)

Labour and Social Security

Minister	Cesare Salvi (DS)
Secretaries	Paolo Guerrini (PdCI), Raffaele Morese (Independent), Ornella Piloni (DS)

Defence 

Minister	Sergio Mattarella Sergio Mattarella Sergio Mattarella is an Italian politician.-Life:Mattarella was born in Palermo . He is son of Bernardo Mattarella and brother of Piersanti Mattarella, both politician into Democrazia Cristiana....  (PPI)
Secretaries	Gianni Rivera Gianni Rivera Giovanni Rivera is an Italian former football midfielder, mostly as an offensive playmaker, who was awarded the Ballon d'Or, one of the most prestigious individual awards in football, in 1969. He played the majority of his career with Serie A side A.C. Milan...  (Dem), Marco Minniti (DS), Massimo Ostillio (UDEur)

Agriculture and Forestry

Minister	Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio , is an Italian politician. He served as Minister of Environment in the second cabinet of Romano Prodi between 2006 and 2008....  (FdV)
Secretaries	Roberto Borroni (DS), Luigi Nocera (UDEur)

The Environment

Minister	Willer Bordon (Dem)
Secretaries	Valerio Calzolaio (DS), Nicola Fusillo (PPI)

Trasport and Navigation

Italian Minister of Transports

This is a list of the Italian Ministers of Transports. The list shows also the ministers that served under the same office but with other names. In fact this Ministry has changed name many times....

 

Minister	Pier Luigi Bersani Pier Luigi Bersani Pier Luigi Bersani is an Italian politician and the current Secretary of the Democratic Party of Italy, the main center-left political party in Italy . He was Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craftmanship from 1996 to 1999, Minister of Transports from 1999 to 2001, and Minister of Economic...  (DS)
Secretaries	Giordano Angelini (DS), Luca Danese (UDEur), Mario Occhipinti (Dem)

Public Works

Italian Minister of Infrastructures

-Ministers of Public Works:-Ministers of Infrastructures and Transports:-Ministers of Infrastructures:-Ministers of Infrastructures and Transports:...

 

Minister	Nerio Nesi Nerio Nesi Nerio Nesi is an Italian politician, businessman and banker.-Life:Born into a working class family of Corticella, a district of Bologna , Nesi participated in the partisan resistance and then fail after a thousand efforts to graduate in law...  (PdCI)
Secretaries	Antonio Bargone (Independent), Antonino Mangiacavallo (RI, from 04/08/00), Romano Carratelli (PPI, from 28/12/00), Salvatore Ladu (PPI, until 28/12/00)

Health

Minister	Umberto Veronesi Umberto Veronesi Umberto Veronesi Knight Grand Cross OMRI is an Italian surgeon and oncologist, internationally known for his contributions on prevention and treatment of breast cancer throughout a career spanning over fifty years. He heads Italy's Nuclear Safety Agency.-Scientific career:Veronesi was born in Milan...  (Independent)
Secretaries	Ombretta Fumagalli Carulli (RI), Grazia Labate (DS), Carla Rocchi (FdV, from 04/08/00)

Cultural Items and Activities

Minister	Giovanna Melandri Giovanna Melandri Giovanna Melandri is an Italian politician.-Education:Giovanna Melandri was born in New York, USA.She earned a diploma "cum laude" in economics and commerce at the Sapienza University of Rome and one of her teachers was Federico Caffè.From 1983 to 1987 she was a coordinator for the work group on...  (DS)
Secretaries	Giampaolo D'Andrea (PPI), Carlo Carli (DS)

Communications

Ministry of Communications (Italy)

The Ministry of Communications was a government ministry of the Republic of Italy, dealing with postal, telephone, telegraph and electronic communications, journalistic information and commercial advertising. Set up in 1924, since the Berlusconi IV Cabinet of 2008 it has been subsumed into the...

Minister	Salvatore Cardinale Salvatore Cardinale Salvatore Cardinale is an Italian politician, who was Telecommunications Minister in both Massimo D'Alema administrations.Cardinale was elected to the Italian Parliament in 1996. He later joined the centrist UDEUR under Clemente Mastella...  (PPI)
Secretaries	Michele Lauria (PPI), Vincenzo Maria Vita (DS)

University, Scientific Research and Technology

Minister	Ortensio Zecchino (PPI) until 02/02/01 Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato Giuliano Amato is an Italian politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group. He is commonly...  interim from 02/02/01
Secretaries	Antonino Cuffaro (PdCI), Luciano Guerzoni (DS), Vincenzo Sica (Dem)