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Francesco Cossiga

Senator for life
Francesco Cossiga
OMRI
Cossiga Francesco.jpg
8th President of Italy
In office
3 July 1985 – 28 April 1992
Prime Minister Bettino Craxi
Amintore Fanfani
Giovanni Goria
Ciriaco De Mita
Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by Sandro Pertini
Succeeded by Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
42nd Prime Minister of Italy
In office
4 August 1979 – 18 October 1980
President Alessandro Pertini
Preceded by Giulio Andreotti
Succeeded by Arnaldo Forlani
President of the Italian Senate
In office
12 July 1983 – 3 July 1985
Preceded by Vittorino Colombo
Succeeded by Amintore Fanfani
Minister of the Interior
In office
12 February 1976 – 11 May 1978
Prime Minister Aldo Moro
Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by Luigi Gui
Succeeded by Virginio Rognoni
Minister for the Public Administration Organization and the Regions
In office
23 November 1974 – 12 February 1976
Prime Minister Aldo Moro
Preceded by Luigi Gui
Succeeded by Tommaso Morlino
Personal details
Born (1928-07-26)26 July 1928
Sassari, Sardinia, Kingdom of Italy
Died 17 August 2010(2010-08-17) (aged 82)
Rome, Latium, Italy
Political party DC (1945–1994)
PPI (1994–1998)
UDR (1998–1999)
UDEUR (1999–2002)
UDC (2002–2010)
Spouse(s) Giuseppa Sigurani (m. 1960; div. 1998)
Children Anna Maria
Giuseppe
Alma mater University of Sassari
Religion Roman Catholicism

Francesco Cossiga, OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [franˈtʃesko kosˈsiːɡa]; 26 July 1928 – 17 August 2010) was an Italian politician of the Christian Democracy party. He was the 42nd Prime Minister of Italy from 1979 to 1980 and the eighth President of Italy from 1985 to 1992. He was also a professor of constitutional law at the University of Sassari.

Cossiga was born in Sassari in northern Sardinia. He started his political career during World War II. His name is now usually pronounced [kosˈsiːɡa], but it was originally pronounced [ˈkɔssiɡa], with the stress on the first syllable, meaning "Corsica" in Sardinian and Sassarese. He was the cousin of Enrico Berlinguer.

He was a minister several times for the Democrazia Cristiana party (Democratic Christian, abbreviated as DC), notably during his stay at Viminale (Ministry for internal affairs) where he re-structured the Italian police, civil protection and secret services.


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