Remo Gaspari was an Italian politician, who was several times minister of the Italian Republic.

Biography

Gaspari was born in Gissi

Gissi

Gissi is a town and comune located in the Province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy.It is bordered by two tributaries of the Sinello River and is surrounded by vineyards and olive groves.- History :Gissi has been populated since prehistoric times...

, in Abruzzo

Abruzzo

Abruzzo is a region in Italy, its western border lying less than due east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east, and the Adriatic Sea to the east...

, a region which would be his main electoral basin during his political career. He graduated in law at the University of Bologna

University of Bologna

The Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna is the oldest continually operating university in the world, the word 'universitas' being first used by this institution at its foundation. The true date of its founding is uncertain, but believed by most accounts to have been 1088...

.

Gaspari was a member of the Italian parliament without interruptions from 1968 to 1992. He was a member of the so-called Dorotei wing of Italian Christian Democracy (Italian: Democrazia Cristiana, simply DC) along with Vincenzo Scotti

Vincenzo Scotti

Vincenzo Scotti is an Italian politician and member of Christian Democracy . He was Minister of the Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs.-Biography:...

, Arnaldo Forlani

Arnaldo Forlani

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 and Antonio Gava

Antonio Gava

Antonio Gava was an Italian politician and member of Christian Democracy...

. In 1960 he was undesecretary to Mail and Telecommunications in the Tambroni Cabinet

Tambroni Cabinet

The Tambroni Cabinet was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 25 March 1960 to 26 July 1960. The government only got his necessary vote of confidence by the parliament, thanks to the votes of the fascist Italian Social Movement and the Monarchists...

. After a series of positions as undersecretary in various ministers, he became minister for the first time in the second Rumor

Mariano Rumor

Mariano Rumor was an Italian politician, a member of the Democrazia Cristiana and the 40th Prime Minister of Italy.He was born in Vicenza, Veneto...

 government (1968), and subsequently, again under Rumor and the follower prime minsiters Colombo

Emilio Colombo

Emilio Colombo is an Italian politician who was Prime Minister of Italy from 1970 to 1972. In addition to having held top positions in Italian governments, he was also active in European politics.-Biography:...

 and Andreotti

Giulio Andreotti

Giulio Andreotti is an Italian politician of the now dissolved centrist Christian Democracy party. He served as the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1972 to 1973, from 1976 to 1979 and from 1989 to 1992. He also served as Minister of the Interior , Defense Minister and Foreign Minister and he...

, he was Minister of Reformation of Public Administration.

In the Andreotti II Cabinet he was Minister of Health. Gaspari was also national vice-secretary of DC in 1976–1980. In 1980 he became Minister of Relationships with the Parliament in the second Cossiga government, Minister of Public Functions in the two Bettino Craxi

Bettino Craxi

Benedetto Craxi was an Italian politician, head of the Italian Socialist Party from 1976 to 1993, the first socialist President of the Council of Ministers of Italy from 1983 to 1987.-Political career:...

-led cabinets, and, from 1987, Minister of Defence in the short-lived Amintore Fanfani

Amintore Fanfani

Amintore Fanfani was an Italian career politician and the 33rd man to serve the office of Prime Minister of the State. He was one of the well-known Italian politicians after the Second World War, and a historical figure of the Christian Democracy .Fanfani and Giovanni Giolitti are still actually...

 government. After a period as Minister for Mezzogiorno, he ended his government career as Minister of Public Functions in the sixth and seventh cabinets led by Giulio Andreotti in the early 1990s.

A song by Elio e le Storie Tese

Elio e le Storie Tese

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 mentions an episode in which Gaspari used a state helicopter to arrive in time to watch an AS Roma football

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

match.

Gaspari died a Gissi from infarction in July 2011

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