‘ died last night at his home in Castelfranco Veneto Tina Anselmi, the first woman to have held the position of minister of the Republic was appointed in July of 1976, the owner of the dicastery of labour and social security is a government led by Giulio Andreotti. Tina Anselmi, who was elected several times member of parliament of the Christian democrats, was 89 years old.
It was the first in everything: the relay partisan 17 years in the brigata Cesare Battisti, first minister woman in the history of Italian in 1976, the first political brave to try to clarify the tangle of interests, and the opacity of the P2 lodge. To her is dedicated the stamp issued on June 2, the day of the feast of the Republic.
Tina Anselmi, the daughter of the mother of the girl went into the Resistance, working from the relay partisan by the name of “Gabriella” and joined the Christian democrats in 1944. From a trade union member, first with the Cgil, and subsequently from the 1950′s, with the Cisl, was in charge of the workers of the textile and of the school, and in 1959 he was a member of the national council of the Dc, which has been a member from 1968 to 1992.
After holding the post of Labour minister, Tina Anselmi was minister of Health in the fourth and fifth Andreotti government and attached his name to the reform that introduced the National Health Service In 1981, in the course of the eighth legislature, he was appointed president of the Commission of inquiry on the P2 masonic lodge, which ends the work in 1985. The funeral will be celebrated Friday, November 4 in the Cathedral of Castelfranco Veneto.
