The Forlani Cabinet, led by

Arnaldo Forlani Arnaldo Forlani (; 8 December 1925 – 6 July 2023) was an Italian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 1980 to 1981. He also held the office of Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Defence. ...

, was the 38th cabinet of the

Italian Republic Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land b ...

. The government was composed of the DC, PSI, PSDI and PRI, with the abstention of the PLI. Since in the Italian Senate the abstention is valid as a contrary vote, the two senators of the PLI did not take part in the vote of confidence to the government. He fell as a result of the P2 lodge scandal. Forlani resigned on 26 May 1981.

Party breakdown

Ministers and other members

Christian Democracy Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well ...

(DC): Prime minister, 13 ministers and 28 undersecretaries *

Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Social democracy, social democratic and Democratic socialism, democratic socialist political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parti ...

(PSI): 7 ministers and 17 undersecretaries * Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI): 3 ministers and 5 undersecretaries *

Italian Republican Party The Italian Republican Party (, PRI) is a political party in Italy established in 1895, which makes it the oldest political party still active in the country. The PRI identifies with 19th-century classical radicalism, as well as Mazzinianism, a ...

(PRI): 3 ministers and 4 undersecretaries

Composition

References

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