Bettino Craxi

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Bettino Craxi was an influential Italian politician who served as Prime Minister in the 1980s and became a central, controversial figure in Italy’s postwar political history due to his role in major corruption scandals.

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Bettino Craxi canonical 9

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instanceOf Italian politician
Prime Minister of Italy
human
causeOfDeath cardiovascular disease
complications of diabetes
child Bobo Craxi
Stefania Craxi
convictedOf corruption
illegal party financing
countryOfCitizenship Italy
dateOfBirth 1934-02-24
dateOfDeath 2000-01-19
describedBySource Italian postwar political history
endTime (as Prime Minister of Italy) 1987-04-17
endTime (as PSI secretary) 1993
familyName Craxi
givenName Benedetto
hasOccupation lawyer
politician
headOfGovernmentOf Italy
honorificTitle Onorevole
ideology reformist socialism
social democracy
influenced Italian Socialist Party policies in the 1980s
memberOfPoliticalParty Italian Socialist Party
nativeLanguage Italian
nickname Bettino
notableEvent Mani Pulite investigations
Mani Pulite investigations
surface form: Tangentopoli corruption scandal
notableWork modernization of the Italian Socialist Party
partOf First Italian Republic
surface form: First Italian Republic political system
placeOfBirth Kingdom of Italy
Lombardy
Milan
placeOfDeath Hammamet
Tunisia
positionHeld Chamber of Deputies of Italy
surface form: Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy

President of the Socialist International
President of the Council of Ministers of Italy
surface form: Prime Minister of Italy

Secretary of the Italian Socialist Party
precededBy Amintore Fanfani
religion Roman Catholicism
sexOrGender male
significantEvent parliamentary speech on corruption in 1992
self-imposed exile in Tunisia
spouse Anna Maria Moncini
startTime (as Prime Minister of Italy) 1983-08-04
startTime (as PSI secretary) 1976
succeededBy Amintore Fanfani
workLocation Rome

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Italian Socialist Party notableMember Bettino Craxi
PSI notableLeader Bettino Craxi
subject surface form: Italian Socialist Party
PSI notablePrimeMinisterFromParty Bettino Craxi
subject surface form: Italian Socialist Party
Anna Maria Moncini spouse Bettino Craxi
Bobo Craxi father Bettino Craxi
Bobo Craxi relative Bettino Craxi
Stefania Craxi father Bettino Craxi