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Carlo Bernini

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Carlo Bernini
Minister of Transport
In office
July 1989 – 27 June 1992
Prime MinisterGiulio Andreotti
Personal details
Born(1936-05-06)6 May 1936
Bondeno
Died1 January 2011(2011-01-01) (aged 74)
Castelfranco Veneto
NationalityItalian
Political party
SpouseAngela Bernini
Children3

Carlo Bernini (6 May 1936 – 1 January 2011) was an Italian academic, politician and businessman. Being a member of the Christian Democracy (DC) he served at the Italian Senate between 1992 and 1994 and was the minister of transport in the period 1989–1992.

Biography

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Bernini was born in Bondeno, Ferrara, on 6 May 1936.[1] In 1952 he joined the DC.[2] He was a professor of transport economics and worked at the faculty of political science of the University of Padua.[2] From 1971 to 1980 he was president of the Province of Treviso and president of the Veneto Region between 1980 and 1989.[3]

In July 1989 he was appointed minister of transport to the sixth cabinet of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti.[4] He also held the same post in the Andreotti's seventh cabinet until 27 June 1992.[4] Bernini was elected to the Italian Senate in 1992 and served there until 1994.[1]

Following the dissolution of the DC in 1994 he retired from politics, but he joined the Union of the Centre in 2003 from which he resigned in 2008.[2] Then he joined the People of Freedom.[2] In 2004 Bernini founded a low cost airline company, MyAir, and headed it.[2][3] The company went bankrupt in 2009.[5]

Bernini was married to Angela Bernini and had three children.[4] In Summer 2010 he was hospitalized following a heart attack and died in a retirement home in Castelfranco Veneto on the New Year's Day of 2011.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Carlo Bernini. XI Legislatura" (in Italian). Italian Senate. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. ^ a b c d e "E' Morto Carlo Bernini, Ultimo 'Doge' Veneto". Oggi Treviso (in Italian). 1 January 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Dead Carlo Bernini, ex-president of MyAir airline". AvioNews. 3 January 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d "E' morto l'ex ministro Bernini Fu l'ultimo «Doge» della DC". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 1 January 2011. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  5. ^ "Bancarotta Myair: Bernini, Soddu e Agnolin tra gli otto sotto inchiesta". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 19 March 2009. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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