Mirko Tremaglia

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
ConstituencyLombardy 2
Personal details
Born(1926-11-17)17 November 1926
Bergamo, Italy
Died30 December 2011(2011-12-30) (aged 85)
Bergamo, Italy
Political partyPFR (1944–1945)
MSI (1946–1995)
AN (1995–2009)
PdL (2009–2010)
FLI (2010–2011)
Alma materUniversità Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
ProfessionPolitician, lawyer

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).

Biography[edit]

Born in Bergamo, Tremaglia grew up assimilating the ideas of the Italian fascism in his childhood and adolescence.[1] During World War II, at the age of 17, he fought 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 post-war period, Tremaglia enrolled at the Catholic University of Milan but was kicked out of it when his past as a National Republican Guard volunteer was discovered.[1][3] Later, he graduated in law and then began 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 cabinets. 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][5] In 2008, he joined The People of Freedom but in 2010 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[edit]

Tremaglia found himself at the center of a controversy for defending the well-known anti-homosexuality Roman Catholic colleague Rocco Buttiglione after the 2004 European Parliament election. He stated: "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.[6]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c "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. ^ a b "Right-wing politician who battled for the right of Italians to cast ballots from abroad dies". The Washington Post. 30 December 2011. Archived from the original on 28 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  5. ^ De Martis, Stefano (22 April 2024). "Premierato, c'è il nodo degli italiani all'estero". Avvenire (in Italian). Retrieved 26 April 2024.
  6. ^ "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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