Guido Fanti
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Guido Fanti
In office
17 July 1979 – 24 July 1989
Constituency
In office
28 July 1970 – 21 May 1976
Preceded by
Office established
Succeeded by
In office
2 April 1966 – 29 July 1970
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Personal details
Born
12 May 1925
, Italy
Died
11 February 2012
(aged 86)
, Italy
Profession
Politician
Guido Fanti
(27 May 1925 – 11 February 2012) was an Italian politician. From
1979 to 1989, he served as a
(MEP). He was a
member of the
.
Biography
[
]
Fanti was born in 1925. He enrolled at the university but was forced to leave
it during the
. He was called to arms in 1943 but soon joined
the
. In 1945, after the liberation of
, he joined
the
.
He became provincial secretary of the PCI
fifteen years later. In 1960 he also entered the central committee of the
party, where he was reconfirmed in the following two congresses, and in 1965,
at the XI congress, a member of the national directorate.
Fanti was elected city councilor of Bologna in 1957; on 2 April 1966 he was
elected mayor of the city, when
resigned for health reasons,
after having brought the semi-destroyed city from war to reconstruction, and
the economic and social recovery started. During his mandate, the PEEP public
housing plan and the construction of the "Fiera District" (based on a project
by architect
) were approved.
On 29 July 1970, Guido Fanti resigned from office because he was elected the
first president of the Emilia-Romagna Region. He then renounced his regional
mandate as he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1976 to 1983. In
1983, he was elected senator of the IX legislature and remained in office
until 1987. From 1979 until 1989, he was a member of the European Parliament,
of which he became vice president in 1984.
Guido Fanti died in the night between 10 and 11 February 2012.
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