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The prime minister of Italy is the head of the Council of Ministers, which holds effective executive power in the Italian government. [1] [2] The first officeholder was Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, who was sworn in on 23 March 1861 after the unification of Italy. [3]
Of the 60 prime ministers, eight served more than 5 years, while seventeen served less than a year. Benito Mussolini is the longest-serving head of government, having settled a dictatorship and ruled the country for a record of 20 years and 267 days; [1] Tommaso Tittoni was the shortest-serving prime minister, having governed for 16 days only in 1905.
Giolitti was prime minister five times between 1892 and 1921 and the second-longest serving prime minister in Italian history. Giolitti was a master in the political art of trasformismo , the method of making a flexible, fluid centrist coalition in Parliament which sought to isolate the extremes of the left and the right in Italian politics.
The Council of Ministers' origins date to the production of the Albertine Statute by the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1848. The Statute, which subsequently became the Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy, did not envision collegial meetings of individual ministers, but simply the existence of ministers as heads of their ministries, responsible for their operations.
Wikipedia categories named after prime ministers of Italy (10 C) Pages in category "Prime ministers of Italy" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.
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List of foreign visits by Benito Mussolini: City and Country Dates Host Notes Paris, France: 1 January 1935 Prime Minister Pierre Laval [2] Berlin, Nazi Germany: September 1937 Chancellor Adolf Hitler [3] Munich, Nazi Germany 30 September 1938 Chancellor Adolf Hitler: Munich Agreement
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