Farewell to Guido Bodrato, a life between the DC and the government

Guido Bodrato, DC executive close to Benigno Zaccagnini and minister several times, has died at the age of 90. The news was released on his social account: «Guido left us last night to join his beloved Irma. Until the end he was sustained by an invincible political passion, in defense of the Constitution and the democratic representation of Parliament. May his example lead us. A prayer,” he reads.

Born in Monteu Roero in 1933, a historic exponent of Christian democracy, he was, together with Donat-Cattin, the leader of the Christian Democrat current Forze Nuove and then a close collaborator of Benigno Zaccagnini and founder. Minister of public education from 1980 to 1982, then minister of the budget, finally minister of industry and commerce, he was commissioner of the DC in Milan at the time of Tangentopoli.

Pierluigi Castagnetti remembers her on Twitter as follows: “Irma’s emptiness was too heavy, even for a strong personality like hers. And now we, her younger brothers, will feel the emptiness. We will miss her political intelligence, her determination, its light in the darkest and most difficult moments. “Go ahead!”».

Also on Twitter Enrico Letta expresses his condolences, defining Bodrato: «Great master of good politics». «I bow – he says -: entire generations of democratic Catholics have been formed and will be formed again following his example, sharing his thought and his profound Europeanism. The sobriety of living and speaking. Thank you Guy.”