Oronzo Reale

Oronzo Reale
Minister of Justice
In office 23 November 1974 – 12 February 1976
Prime Minister	Aldo Moro
Preceded by	Mario Zagari
Succeeded by	Francesco Paolo Bonifacio
In office 27 March 1970 – 6 March 1971
Prime Minister	Mariano Rumor Emilio Colombo
Preceded by	Silvio Gava
Succeeded by	Emilio Colombo
In office 4 December 1963 – 24 June 1968
Prime Minister	Aldo Moro
Preceded by	Giacinto Bosco
Succeeded by	Guido Gonella
Minister of Finance
In office 12 December 1968 – 5 August 1969
Prime Minister	Mariano Rumor
Preceded by	Mario Ferrari Aggradi
Succeeded by	Giacinto Bosco
Judiciary offices Judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy In office 31 January 1977 – 31 January 1986 Appointed by Italian Parliament
Party political offices Secretary of the Italian Republican Party In office February 1949 – December 1963 Preceded by Amedeo Sommivigo Succeeded by Oddo Biasini
Parliamentary offices Member of the Chamber of Deputies In office 12 June 1958 – 4 July 1976 Constituency Ancona
Personal details
Born	(1902-10-24)24 October 1902 Lecce, Kingdom of Italy
Died	14 July 1988(1988-07-14) (aged 85) Rome, Italy
Political party	Italian Republican Party

Oronzo Reale (24 October 1902 – 14 July 1988) was an Italian politician, who served as justice minister in the 1960s and 1970s.

Biography

Reale was born in Lecce on 24 October 1902.[1][2] He received a degree in law.[2]

He was a member and the head of the Republican Party.[3][4] He served as the secretary of the party.[5] In the 1970s he tried the French model to reorganize the party for which he set up a committee.[6]

Reale also assumed cabinet posts. On 4 December 1963, he became justice minister of Italy.[2] He was reappointed justice minister to the coalition government led by Prime Minister Aldo Moro on 24 February 1966.[7] His term ended on 24 June 1968.[2] Then Reale served as the minister of finance from 12 December 1968 to 5 August 1969.[2]

He was secondly appointed justice minister on 27 March 1970 and served in the post until March 1971.[4] His third and last term as justice minister was from 23 November 1974 to 12 February 1976.[2] During his third term as justice minister, Reale developed a public law order, called Legge Reale or more formally public law order 152 which was introduced on 22 May 1975 as a response to bombings organized by right-wing groups in Brescia.[8] The law expanded the powers of Italian security forces.[8][9]

Reale died on 14 July 1988, aged 85.[2][10]

Electoral history

Election	House	Constituency	Party		Votes	Result
1958	Chamber of Deputies	Ancona–Pesaro–Macerata–Ascoli		PRI	6,863	Y Elected
1963	Chamber of Deputies	Ancona–Pesaro–Macerata–Ascoli		PRI	5,710	Y Elected
1968	Chamber of Deputies	Ancona–Pesaro–Macerata–Ascoli		PRI	7,538	Y Elected
1972	Chamber of Deputies	Ancona–Pesaro–Macerata–Ascoli		PRI	8,918	Y Elected

References

1. Guglielmo Barone; Guido de Blasio; Elena Gentili (December 2020). "Politically connected cities: Italy 1951-1991" (PDF). Quaderni (1158): 35. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3779802. hdl:10419/245899. S2CID 233754455.
2. Luca Polese Remaggi (2016). "Reale, Oronzo". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 86.
3. "Small party quits Italy coalition". The Pittsburgh Press. Rome. UPI. 28 February 1971. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
4. Inez Robb (2 July 1963). "Romans talked dryly with JFK spy case forces". The Pittsburgh Press. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
5. Norman Kogan (1963). The Politics of Italian Foreign Policy. New York: Praeger. doi:10.2307/40199083. hdl:2027/mdp.39015005478725. JSTOR 40199083.
6. Leonard Weinberg (1995). The transformation of Italian communism. New Brunswick, NJ; London: Transaction Publishers. p. 33. ISBN 978-1-4128-4030-9.
7. "Italian crisis ends under new coalition". Montreal Gazette. Rome. Reuters. 24 February 1966. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
8. Richard L. Clutterbuck (1990). Terrorism, Drugs, and Crime in Europe: After 1992. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-415-05443-0.
9. Paul Wilkinson (2011). Terrorism Versus Democracy: The Liberal State Response (3rd ed.). London; New York: Routledge. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-136-83546-9.
10. "Chronology of Italian political events, 1988". Italian Politics. 4: vii–xxiii. 1990. JSTOR 43039615.

External links

• Media related to Oronzo Reale at Wikimedia Commons