Adone Zoli

Adone Zoli
35th Prime Minister of Italy
In office 19 May 1957 – 1 July 1958
President	Giovanni Gronchi
Deputy	Giuseppe Pella
Preceded by	Antonio Segni
Succeeded by	Amintore Fanfani
Italian Minister of Justice
In office 26 July 1951 – 16 July 1953
Prime Minister	Alcide De Gasperi
Preceded by	Attilio Piccioni
Succeeded by	Guido Gonella
Italian Minister of Finance
In office 18 January 1954 – 10 February 1954
Prime Minister	Amintore Fanfani
Preceded by	Ezio Vanoni
Succeeded by	Roberto Tremelloni
Italian Minister of Budget
In office 19 February 1956 – 1 July 1958
Prime Minister	Antonio Segni Himself
Preceded by	Ezio Vanoni
Succeeded by	Giuseppe Medici
Personal details
Born	(1887-12-16)16 December 1887 Cesena, Emilia, Kingdom of Italy
Died	20 February 1960(1960-02-20) (aged 72) Rome, Latium, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Christian Democracy

Adone Zoli (16 December 1887 – 20 February 1960) was an Italian politician and member of the Christian Democracy. He served as the 35th Prime Minister of Italy from 1957 to 1958.

Biography

Zoli was born in Cesena, in the province of Forlì-Cesena.

He was elected to the Italian Senate from 1948 to 1960. He was Minister of Justice in 1951 in Alcide De Gasperi's 7th government, Minister of Taxation in 1954 under Amintore Fanfani and Minister of Economical Balance under the first government led by Antonio Segni. As prime minister, a law was passed in October 1957 that extended compulsory pension insurance to small farmers, sharecroppers and tenant farmers, while a law of 13 March 1958 extended pension insurance to fishermen.^[1]

Zoli, an anti-fascist, resigned the post of Prime Minister soon after it became clear that he would have needed to rely on the votes of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement to form a majority in the Parliament. He was then convinced by President of the Republic, Giovanni Gronchi, to remain in the post until the natural dissolution of the Italian Parliament in 1958. Zoli was the sole Italian Senator in office to become Prime Minister.

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