Mirko Tremaglia

Mirko Tremaglia (17 November 1926 – 30 December 2011) was an Italian politician and lawyer. Famous for his youth as a fascist soldier, he was one of the most important exponents of the Italian far-right politics during the "First Republic" Italian period (1948-1994).

Mirko Tremaglia
Minister of Italians in the World
In office
11 June 2001 – 17 May 2006
Prime MinisterSilvio Berlusconi
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
25 May 1972 – 30 December 2011
Personal details
Born(1926-11-17)17 November 1926
Bergamo, Italy
Died30 December 2011(2011-12-30) (aged 85)
Bergamo, Italy
NationalityItalian
Political partyItalian Social Movement
(1946–1995)
National Alliance
(1995–2009)
The People of Freedom
(2009–2010)
Future and Freedom
(2010–2011)
ProfessionPolitician, lawyer

Biography

Born in Bergamo, Tremaglia grew up assimilating the ideas of the Italian Fascism in his childhood and adolescence.[1] During World War II he fought, at the age of 17, in the National Republican Guard belonging to the Italian Social Republic, a puppet state controlled by Nazi Germany. In the following months Tremaglia lost both parents[2][3] and was taken as a prisoner by the Allies, then interned in Coltano prisoner-of-war camp for fascist prisoners.[3]

After the second post-war period, he enrolled at the Catholic University of Milan, but was kicked out of it when his past as a NRG volunteer was discovered.[1][3] Later he graduated in law then practicing as a lawyer.

He was also a co-founder of the Italian Social Movement in 1946 and of its successor, the National Alliance in 1995. Between 2001 and 2006 he served as Minister without portfolio of Italians in the World in the second and third Berlusconi Cabinet. Under this government he is remembered for the Law 459 of 2001 "for the exercise of the right to vote of Italian citizens resident abroad", known as Tremaglia Law.[4]

In 2008 he joined The People of Freedom, but in 2010 he followed Gianfranco Fini into his new party Future and Freedom. Tremaglia died at his home in Bergamo, after a long distress with Parkinson's disease.[4]

Controversies

Tremaglia found himself at the center of a controversy for defending the well-known anti-homosexuality Roman Catholic colleague Rocco Buttiglione, after 2004 European Parliament election, stating: "Unfortunately Buttiglione has lost. Poor Europe: fags are among the majority government". For this statement Tremaglia was reprimanded and criticized by several members of various parties of the Italian political spectrum.[5]

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See also

References
  1. "Ecco perché l'antifascismo non è un valore (Here's why anti-fascism is not a value)" (in Italian). 23 September 2008. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  2. "Tremaglia" (PDF) (in Italian). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  3. "Quando Fellini disse:Tremaglia, lei merita un film (When Fellini said: Tremaglia, you deserve a movie)". La Stampa (in Italian). 2 January 2012. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  4. "Right-wing politician who battled for the right of Italians to cast ballots from abroad dies". The Washington Post. 30 December 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  5. "Tremaglia attacca i gay. E' bufera (Tremaglia attacks gays. It's a storm)". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 12 October 2004. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
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