Oscar Mammì

Oscar Mammi
Minister of Mail and Telecommunications
In office 28 July 1987 – 12 April 1991
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti Giovanni Goria Ciriaco De Mita
Preceded by	Antonio Gava
Succeeded by	Carlo Vizzini
Minister for Parliamentary Relations
In office 4 August 1983 – 17 April 1987
Prime Minister	Bettino Craxi
Preceded by	Lucio Abis
Succeeded by	Gaetano Gifuni
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 6 June 1968 – 22 April 1992
Constituency	Lazio
Personal details
Born	(1926-10-25)25 October 1926 Rome, Italy
Died	10 June 2017(2017-06-10) (aged 90) Rome, Italy
Political party	Italian Republican Party

Oscar Mammì (25 October 1926 – 10 June 2017) was an Italian politician. A member of the Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italiano; PRI), he was minister of Mail and Telecommunications from 1987 to 1991.

Biography

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 declared as anti-constitutional a comma of the law which allowed Berlusconi to own three TV networks; however, there was no measure to change the situation afterwards.

In 2005 he played in a TV fiction on Rai 3 Italian state channel.

Mammi died on 10 June 2017 at the age of 90.

Sources

• Biography at Italian TV & Radio History website (in Italian)