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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Giuliano Amato is currently one of the 15 constitutional court judges of Italy, having served as the prime minister of Italy in the years 1992-93 and 2000-01. He also served as Minister of Interior and Treasurer during the Financial Crisis. He is often remembered as the treasurer who had the political strength to make a radical and controversial decision: withdrawing from people's bank accounts 6 per thousand of their capital, an economic operation aimed at rectifying the disastrous financial situation that Italy was facing at the time. He is one of the few politicians that have been prominent figures in Italian politics during both the First Republic (1948-1994) and the Second Republic (1994-present). His article is mainly about the thorny path he faced while transitioning between the two republics, largely due to a widespread political scandal. It depicts the uncertainty of the Italian politics as it was undergoing a deep change: several new political parties were forming in the beginning of the 1990s, and Italians put much faith in this transition. Amato was at the very forefront of this political renaissance, and has been a stand-out public figure throughout the turbulent last few decades of Italian politics.
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