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Francesco Cosentino

Francesco Cosentino, on the right, with the president of the Brunetto Chamber Bucciarelli-Ducci, 1963

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Duration Mandate 1984 –
1984
Legislature I
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parliamentary 		PPE
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Member of the Commission for the Regulations and the petitions and the delegation for relations with the states of the Gulf
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Party Christian democracy
Profession Italian Parliament official
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Francesco Cosentino (Palermo, 22 July 1922 – Rome, March 4, 1985) was an Italian politician, exponent of Christian democracy and already European parliamentarian.

General Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies, charged already covered by the Father, was at the center of the Italian political life of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century.

The family [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

The father, Ubaldo Cosentino, had traveled all the career positions in the Montecitorio administration. Listed [first] Like the best placed to take over from Camillo Montalcini, he was preferred for fascists as general secretary of the Alberti Chamber first and then Rossi Merighi.

As director of the technical services of the Chamber of Fasci and the Ubaldo corporations chaired to the drafting of the Montecitorio delivery report during the occupation of Rome [2] And according to a source he would have facilitated Dino Grandi’s escape [3] .

At the liberation of Rome, on June 5, 1944, Ubaldo was appointed general secretary in Montecitorio by Vittorio Emanuele Orlando [4] ; In the post-fascist period, it is its activity of high political-administrative consultancy: in 1945 the Minister of Real Casa, Lucifer, sent Cosentino, general secretary of the Chamber to Palermo, because he brings to Orlando the invitation to form the government [5] ; Ubaldo himself the following year he would have done as a means of the pressures exerted by Minister Giuseppe Romita, together with the Councilor of the Court of Cassation, Vitali, with the President of the Court, Pagano, to hurry the meeting of the College which was to proclaim the results of the referendum institutional of 1946, falsely saying that the king wanted to start on June 10, 1946 [6] .

Ubaldo remained general secretary of the constituent assembly and finally of the Chamber of Deputies until 1951, the date of death.

In the high administrations of the State [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Cosentino began as a particular secretary of Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, between 1945 and 1946, and continued as a particular secretary of Enrico De Nicola from 1946 to 1947 [7] .

Entering the roles of the Chamber of Deputies, from 1949 to 1960 he was parliamentary consultant of the heads of the state Luigi Einaudi and Giovanni Gronchi [8] : in this guise he kept contact with the US embassy in Rome to encourage the Tambroni government [9] .

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Designed to participate in the Rome Conference for the Treaty Establishment of the European Economic Community as an expert in parliamentary and electoral law procedure, he was deputy secretary general of the parliamentary assembly of the Czech.

At the top of Montecitorio [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Appointed Secretary General in 1962, he maintained the office until 1976, when the explosion of the Lockheed scandal brought out (precisely in the procedural cards acquired by the Parliament for the investigation that was conducted by the investigating commission) a check in the name of him and signed by Inquisite Camillo Cruciani [ten] . Although it was justified by declaring to be a private purchase transaction of gold, Cosenza was sent by the President of the Chamber Sandro Pertini to make his explanations in front of the Presidency Office, which revoked him from the position with a single majority vote, replacing him with Antonio Maccanico [11] .

His management of the administrative summit of Montecitorio gave rise to divergent opinions: on the one hand, a personalistic and friendly management of the advice offered to the president, until he indicated co -interest in the defosses of the bills [twelfth] ; On the other hand, however, the function of guaranteeing minorities was estimated, which – with abandoned assignment – led him to sign an unusual criticism of the President of the Chamber on the treatment reserved for radical deputies who claimed the right to sit on seats of their choice in the Montecitorio classroom [13] .

On April 18, 1977 he became president of Faiat (Italian Federation of hotels and tourism associations); This office also followed that of president of the Italian Motonautica Federation.

In 1979 he was candidate [14] From the Christian Democracy to the European Parliament, but did not immediately achieve the seat for insufficiency of preferences: only at the end of the first legislature of the European Parliament, from January to June 1984, managed to take over in the seat of European deputy for a short time, for the lists of the DC, and was a member of the Commission for the regulation and the petitions and the delegation for relations with the states of the Gulf.

His public visibility was compromised by the revelation of his name (card n. 1618) among the lists of the Masonic Loggia P2 of Castiglion Fibocchi, discovered in 1981: it has been ascertained that his role of grand commis He was organically at the service of that association, so much so that he is ascribed to the drafting of the democratic rebirth plan by Licio Gelli [15] .

He was also involved in the plots that unraveled around the kidnapping of the commissioner from Campania Ciro Cirillo and the consequent assassination of the Camorra Vincenzo Casillo in an attack in Rome. Regarding the negotiations for the release of the host, a story of mysterious messages assertedly seized from Raffaele Cutolo during a search emerged; One of these messages would have been argued on the header of the secretary general of the Chamber, at the time Cosenza, but there is no trace of these messages and some, as Alessandro Silj, collect voices about their alleged cover -up [16] .

Also the availability of suite (from 127 to 129) of the Hotel Excelsior in Rome, which served as a Roman headquarters of Licio Gelli from the Roman headquarters and from home for the initiation ceremonies to P2, dates back to him, given that they were rented on favorable conditions for his intervention, as president
ciga [17] . The Ciga Hotels was at the period in the sphere of influence of Michele Sindona and owned the Roman hotel in which the venerable master lived [18] .

According to a recent reconstruction of Massimo Franco, in 1971 Cosentino would have been at the center of a maneuver aimed at promoting the election to President of the Republic of the unsuspecting Sandro Pertini (then President of the Chamber), in the provision that he would naively bring Cosentino with him Always as a general secretary, thus setting up a trusted man of P2 within the Quirinale. The maneuver, in which Carmelo Spagnuolo (also Piduista) played a central role), provided for a consent of the Italian Communist Party and had not followed instead in that return Giovanni Leone, subsequently involved in the same Lockheed scandal for which he also resigned Cosentino [19] .

On February 2, 1989 Clara Canetti, a widow of Roberto Calvi, during an episode of the television broadcast ” Samarkand “She said that her husband (already assassinated for a few years) would have confided to her that at the top of the Loggia P2, Licio Gelli would have been only the fourth of the hierarchy, having headed Giulio Andreotti with his deputy Cosentino [20] . These statements were perfectly in line with what has already been deposited before the parliamentary commission of inquiry on P2 on 6 December 1982 [19] .

Only after ten years from his death, however, a further charge emerged against him, this time of mafia collusion: during the Andreotti trial, in the hearing of 18 December 1997, the collaborator of justice Angelo Siino, according to which Stefano Bontati, affirmed him. He turned to Cosentino to obtain the authorization of the soul on citrus fruits; Bontate himself would have told him that Cosentino was a friend of the Capomafia Pippo Calò [21] .

The continuation of the “dynasty” was also prejudiced by the dark profiles that hovered around the family: although no charge had ever been formulated, it appeared that Francesco Cosentino was the lessor of the apartment in via dei Prefetti in Rome, where he was found killed on June 23rd 1986 Elisabetta Di Leonardo, an aspiring model whose former partner was Ubaldo Cosentino Jr., The son of honorable [22] .

On April 4, 2017 Il Fatto Quotidiano reported the revelation of the collaborator of justice Gioacchino Pennino (former doctor, city councilor and “man of honor” of Brancaccio) according to which Francesco Cosentino, near the honorable Giulio Andreotti, would have been the principal of Murder of the prefect Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. This news dates back to the hearing in the Anti -Mafia Commission of the Prosecutor General of Palermo Roberto Scarpinato [23] .

  1. ^ He would have had the seniority to succeed Camillo Montalcini, before the fascist twenty years, according to R. Ferrari Zumbini, Notes and ideas for a history of Parliament as an administration. The Senate , in “magazine of history of Italian law”, 1987, p. 97.
  2. ^ Mario Zamboni, Diary of a coup d’état 25 July-8 September: the dramatic events of the summer of ’43 leading to the fall of fascism , volume 16 of History and Chronicles of Italy, Newton Compton, 1990, p. 187.
  3. ^ Mario Pacelli, Montecitorio interior: unknown stories , FrancoAngeli, 2000, p. 118.
  4. ^ Ruggiero Romano, Corrado Vivanti, History of Italy: Parliament , Einaudi, 1978, page 763.
  5. ^ Artieri, “Chronicle of the Kingdom of Italy”, vol. II, p. 1002; In Artieri the name is indicated as Francesco Cosentino, but it is evidently a misunderstanding because on this date the secretary general of the Chamber is Ubaldo Cosentino, to whom his son Francesco will take over only after three decades
  6. ^ Falcone Lucifer, The last King: The diaries of the Minister of Real Casa, 1944-1946 – Mondadori 2002, p. 549.
  7. ^ He was “next to De Gasperi on December 27, 1947, while De Nicola signed the Italian Constitution”: cf. E. Di Caro, Concreteness, rigor and morality of Tina Anselmi , Il Sole 24 Ore, 21 March 2021.
  8. ^ “With
    Gronchi, the secretary general Oscar Moccia was essentially the manager
    of the administrative and bureaucratic life of the palace and its political influence was
    Minima, remaining entrusted to Francesco Cosentino most of the more distinctly political activity. Cosentino, who then became the general secretary in turn
    of the Chamber of Deputies and was removed from assignment to the times when Pertini
    He was president of Montecitorio, he holds the role of head of the Relations Office with
    Parliament and the government but was at the same time in service in the Chamber “: Review: the ‘men of the hill’ from yesterday to today , Review by: Sergio Piscitello, magazine of international political studies, new series, vol. 78, No. 4 (312) (October-December 2011), p. 623.
  9. ^ See diplomatic correspondence of June 1960 between the Embassy Councilor Robert Mudd and the US State Department.
  10. ^ The disappearance of Francesco Cosentino, in Repubblica – March 7, 1985.
  11. ^ Mario Pacelli, Montecitorio interior. Unknown stories , Franco Angeli ed., 2006.
  12. ^ It was the case of the double referral, to various commissions, of the proposed bill on the MangiaSoldi flipper, signed by that Hon. Happy that in this regard he then had to be suspended of corruption.
  13. ^ “The places of the radicals”, article by Francesco Cosentino on Il Tempo of 13.10.1976.
  14. ^ “Among major «technicians» were Francesco Cosentino (Dc), former General Secretary of the Chamber of Deputies and Felice Ippolito, former President of the National Energy Research Institute (Cnen). Both had been removed from office after scandals in which public opinion considered them victims rather than guilty”: Giovanna Zircon, THE LEISURE VOTE: The Campaign for European Elections , The politician, vol. 45, No. 3 (September 1980), p. 401.
  15. ^ Giovanni Pellegrino on the Telecom case, the opinion, 24 July 2008.
  16. ^ Alessandro Silj, Malpaese: crime, corruption and politics in Italy of the First Republic, 1943-1994 , Donzelli Editore, 1994-ISBN 88-7989-074-3
  17. ^ Audition of Francesco Cosentino, 17 June 1982, in Commission P2, Annexes, Serie I, vol. IV, p. 354: Among the most pressing requests that Gelli made it there was the one that this suite had two independent exits.
  18. ^ The Republic – Roberto Bianchin, In the legend of large hotels , 30 Marzo 1985
  19. ^ a b Massimo Franco, Andreotti , Mondadori (Oscar History), 2010-ISBN 88-04-59563-9
  20. ^ The Republic – ” The widow Calvi … “, February 3, 1989
  21. ^ Extract of the Andreotti sentence ( PDF ), are Legxiv.camera.it . URL consulted on February 24, 2020 (archived by URL Original December 18, 2021) .
  22. ^ “Too beautiful, too alone”, by Sergio Valentini, Corriere della Sera (10 July 1994) Page 43
  23. ^ Gianni Barbacetto and Stefania Limiti, “From the Church, the principal was the deputy Cosentino”, Palermo 1982 – The attorney general Roberto Scarpinato tells the anti -mafia the accusations to the piduista Andreottian for the murder of the prefect . are ilfattoquotidiano.it , April 4, 2017. URL consulted on April 4, 2017 .

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