Franco Restivo


Franco Restivo was an Italian politician.

Biography

Franco Restivo was son of Empedocle Restivo, a jurist and national deputy. He studied law at the University of Palermo and in 1943 he became a professor of constitutional law at the Faculty of Law of the Sicilian university; later teaching public law at the Faculty of economics and commerce of the same university.
He was member of the Constituent Assembly between 1946 and 1947, of the Sicilian Regional Assembly between 1947 and 1958, and national Deputy from 1958 until his death.
Between 1949 and 1955 he served as President of the Sicilian Region. After his return to national politics, he also served as a Minister of Agricolture, as Minister of the Interior and as Minister of Defence.
During the period in which he held the dicastery of the Interior, Restivo faced a situation of serious deterioration of public order: massacre of Piazza Fontana, worsening of common and mafia crime, youth protest and political terrorism.
He died April 17, 1976, a few months before the end of the VI Legislature.

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