Aldo Aniasi

Aldo Aniasi, OMRI^[1] (31 May 1921 – 27 August 2005) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Aniasi was born in Palmanova, in Friuli. In 1943 he joined the Brigate Garibaldi, the paramilitary wing of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in the Italian resistance. He fought in Piedmont, in Valsesia and Ossola. In 1945 he was briefly the lieutenant for the National Liberation Committee in Milan.

After the war Aniasi left the PCI, adhering (after 1947) to the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI). Aniasi was a councilman of Milan from 1951 to 1967, when he became Mayor of the city following the resignation of Pietro Bucalossi; he contributed to Bucalossi's fall by leaving the PSDI to join the Italian Socialist Party (PSI).^[2] Mayor during the "Years of Lead", Aniasi was often in disagreement with the prefect Libero Mazza: while the latter supported law and order policies against the Red Brigades and other terrorists, Aniasi supported disarming the police instead. Aniasi was also criticized for seemingly downplaying terrorism.

In 1976, he was elected to the

After 1994, he left politics temporarily before joining the Democrats of the Left (DS), becoming a member of its directive council. He died in Milan in 2005 and is buried at the city's Monumental Cemetery.^[3]

Electoral history

Election	House	Constituency	Party		Votes	Result
1976	Chamber of Deputies	Milan–Pavia		PSI	65,962	Y Elected
1979	Chamber of Deputies	Milan–Pavia		PSI	39,565	Y Elected
1983	Chamber of Deputies	Milan–Pavia		PSI	29,863	Y Elected
1987	Chamber of Deputies	Milan–Pavia		PSI	45,675	Y Elected
1992	Chamber of Deputies	Milan–Pavia		PSI	11,903	Y Elected

Honour

•  Italy: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (27 December 1967)^[4]

Notes

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