Oscar Mammì (25 October 1926 â€" 10 June 2017) was an Italian
politician, a member of the Italian Republican Party (Partito
Repubblicano Italian, or PRI) who was minister of Mail and
Telecommunications from 1987 to 1991.Mammì was born in Rome and
graduated in Economics and Trade. He was elected for PRI in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1972. After having
been undersecretary of Industry and Trade, he was first Minister of
Parliamentary Relations in the Craxi I and Craxi II Cabinets, and
later Minister of Mail and Telecommunications in the Goria, De Mita
and Andreotti VI Cabinets.His name is connected with the so-called
"Mammì Bill", issued in 1990, which was the first Italian
comprehensive law dealing with media and TV and Radio advertisement.
The law was accused of granting a substantial monopoly on public
television to Silvio Berlusconi. The Italian Constitutional Court
later in 1994 as anti-constitutional a comma of the law which allowed
Berlusconi to own three TV network; however, there was no measure to
change the situation afterwardsIn 2005 he played in a TV fiction on
Rai 3 Italian state channel.
politician, a member of the Italian Republican Party (Partito
Repubblicano Italian, or PRI) who was minister of Mail and
Telecommunications from 1987 to 1991.Mammì was born in Rome and
graduated in Economics and Trade. He was elected for PRI in the
Italian Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1972. After having
been undersecretary of Industry and Trade, he was first Minister of
Parliamentary Relations in the Craxi I and Craxi II Cabinets, and
later Minister of Mail and Telecommunications in the Goria, De Mita
and Andreotti VI Cabinets.His name is connected with the so-called
"Mammì Bill", issued in 1990, which was the first Italian
comprehensive law dealing with media and TV and Radio advertisement.
The law was accused of granting a substantial monopoly on public
television to Silvio Berlusconi. The Italian Constitutional Court
later in 1994 as anti-constitutional a comma of the law which allowed
Berlusconi to own three TV network; however, there was no measure to
change the situation afterwardsIn 2005 he played in a TV fiction on
Rai 3 Italian state channel.
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