Rino Formica

Salvatore Formica (born 1 March 1927), best known as Rino Formica, is an Italian former politician.

Biography

Formica was born in Bari.

He became a member of national importance of the Italian Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano, or simply PSI) during the leadership of Bettino Craxi. He was several times Minister of the Italian Republic starting from 1980. He was Minister of Budget in the Spadolini II Cabinet, whose fall was caused by a quarrel between Formica and the other economy minister Beniamino Andreatta.

Formica was strongly critical of the PSI's transformation from a popular, social-based party into one involved in numerous corruption and official malfeasance scandals under Craxi. He declared "the convent is poor, but the monks are rich" (in reference to PSI's financial problems, where its members were instead increasingly well endowed),^[1] and defined PSI's national assembly as "a court of dwarves and ballerinas.^[2] Formica was one of the numerous PSI members involved in the Mani Pulite scandal of the early 1990s, although he was acquitted in the two trials raised against him.^[3] After Craxi's resignation as PSI national secretary in 1993, he supported Claudio Martelli as his successor. In 1994 he was not re-elected to the Italian Parliament for the first time since the 1970s.

In 2003 he founded a post-Socialist party called Socialismo è Libertà and later adhered to the new Italian Socialist Party, a small-sized formation of socialists who did not joined the Democratic Party.

References

Cossiga II Cabinet (April–October 1980)
Russo Balzamo Scotti Giannini Capria Gaspari Colombo Rognoni Morlino La Malfa Reviglio Pandolfi Lagorio Sarti Compagna Marcora Formica Darida Bisaglia Aniasi Manca Signorello De Michelis Foschi Biasini D'Arezzo

Forlani Cabinet (1980–81)
Mazzotta Romita Scotti Darida Capria Gava Colombo Rognoni Sarti/Darida La Malfa Reviglio Andreatta Lagorio Bodrato Nicolazzi Bartolomei Formica Di Giesi Bisaglia/Pandolfi Aniasi Manca Compagna De Michelis Foschi Biasini Signorello

Spadolini I Cabinet (1981–82)
Aniasi Tesini Abis Zamberletti Schietroma Signorile Radi Colombo Rognoni Darida La Malfa Formica Andreatta Lagorio Bodrato Nicolazzi Bartolomei Balzamo Gaspari Marcora Altissimo Capria Mannino De Michelis Di Giesi Scotti Signorello

Spadolini II Cabinet (1982)
Aniasi Tesini Abis Zamberletti Schietroma Signorile Radi Colombo Rognoni Darida La Malfa Formica Andreatta Lagorio Bodrato Nicolazzi Bartolomei Balzamo Gaspari Marcora Altissimo Capria Mannino De Michelis Di Giesi Scotti Signorello

Goria Cabinet (1987–88)
Amato Gunnella Iervolino La Pergola Gaspari Ruberti Santuz Tognoli Mattarella Andreotti Fanfani Vassalli Colombo Gava Zanone Galloni De Rose Pandolfi Mannino Mammì Battaglia Donat-Cattin Ruggiero Prandini Vizzini Carraro Ruffolo Formica

De Mita Cabinet (1988–89)
De Michelis Maccanico Iervolino Vito Lattanzio La Pergola Cirino Pomicino Gaspari Mattarella Tognoli Andreotti Gava Vassalli Fanfani Colombo Amato Zanone Galloni Ferri Mannino Mammì Santuz Battaglia Donat-Cattin Ruggiero Prandini Formica Fracanzani Bono Parrino Carraro Ruffolo Ruberti

Andreotti VII Cabinet (1991–92)
Martelli D'Onofrio Iervolino Romita Capria Gaspari Mannino Boniver Conte Sterpa Martinazzoli De Michelis Scotti Cirino Pomicino Formica Carli Rognoni Misasi Prandini Goria Bernini Vizzini Bodrato De Lorenzo Facchiano Marini Tognoli Ruberti Ruffolo Vito Lattanzio

Andreotti VII Cabinet (1991–92)
Martelli D'Onofrio Iervolino Romita Capria Gaspari Mannino Boniver Conte Sterpa Martinazzoli De Michelis Scotti Cirino Pomicino Formica Carli Rognoni Misasi Prandini Goria Bernini Vizzini Bodrato De Lorenzo Facchiano Marini Tognoli Ruberti Ruffolo Vito Lattanzio