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{{short description|Italian politician (born 1940)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Franco Bassanini
|image = Franco_Bassanini.jpg
|order1 = [[Minister for Public Administration (Italy)|Minister of Public Function <br>and Regional Affairs]]
|term_start1 = 22 December 1999
|term_end1 = 11 June 2001
|primeminister1 = [[Massimo D'Alema]]<br>[[Giuliano Amato]]
|predecessor1 = Angelo Piazza
|successor1 = [[Franco Frattini]]
|term_start2 = 18 May 1996
|term_end2 = 21 October 1998
|primeminister2 = [[Romano Prodi]]
|predecessor2 = Giovanni Motzo
|successor2 = Angelo Piazza
|order3 = [[Senate of the Republic (Italy)|Member of the Senate of the Republic]]
|term_start3 = 9 May 1996
|term_end3 = 27 April 2006
|constituency3 = [[Tuscany]]
|order4 = [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Member of the Chamber of Deputies]]
|term_start4 = 20 June 1979
|term_end4 = 8 May 1996
|constituency4 = [[Rome]] (1979–1983)<br>[[Milan]] (1983–1996)
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|5|9|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[Milan]], Italy
|death_date  = 
|death_place = 
|party = [[Italian Socialist Party|PSI]] (before 1981)<br>[[Independent politician|Independent]] (1981–1983)<br>[[Independent Left (Italy)|Independent Left]] (1983–1991)<br>[[Democratic Party of the Left|PDS]] (1991–1998)<br>[[Democrats of the Left|DS]] (1998–2007)<br>[[Democratic Party (Italy)|PD]] (since 2007)
}}
'''Franco Bassanini''' (born 9 May 1940) is an Italian lawyer, politician, minister,<ref name="HineVassallo2000">{{cite book|last1=Hine|first1=David|last2=Vassallo|first2=Salvatore|last3=Cattaneo|first3=Istituto Carlo|title=The return of politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-GjRuZWSlIC&pg=PA139|accessdate=6 April 2011|year=2000|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-57181-798-3|page=139}}</ref> and undersecretary of state.

==Career==
Born in [[Milan]], Bassanini was a [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|deputy]] from 1979 to 1996 and a [[Senate of the Republic (Italy)|senator]] from 1996 to 2006. He served as the minister of public administration and regional affairs from 1996 to 2001 in the cabinets led by firstly [[Romano Prodi]], then by [[Massimo D'Alema]] and lastly by [[Giuliano Amato]].<ref>Franco Bassanini, after a meeting with the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, declared that deregulation is a war that you never wins ... my job is to simplify, deregulate and delegify, but almost all my Cabinet colleagues do the opposite. It is a canvas of Penelope, but if I had not solved by night the complications that they write during the day, we would end up swamped by a kind of impenetrable legislative jungle: {{cite journal|last1=Buonomo|first1=Giampiero|title=Liberalizzazioni: a cosa non si è pensato|journal=Golem Informazione|date=2012|url=https://www.questia.com/projects#!/project/89407952|access-date=2016-04-10|archive-date=2012-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120801002834/http://www.questia.com/projects#!/project/89407952|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

Bassannini was president of Astrid, a think-tank specialising in the study of institutional and administrative reform. As a member of the administrative council of the [[Ecole nationale d'administration|ENA]], he was called by [[Nicolas Sarkozy]] in 2007 to take part in the  ''Commission pour la libération de la croissance française'', presided over by [[Jacques Attali]] and designed to reform France's administration.

A member of [[Italy-USA Foundation]], Bassanini served as the professor of constitutional law at the First University of Rome,{{clarify|date=May 2019}} and was the chairman of [[Cassa Depositi e Prestiti]]. He is also on the advisory board of the Official and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), where he is regularly involved in meetings regarding the financial and monetary system.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Bassanini|first1=Franco|title=Advisory Board|url=http://www.omfif.org/about/advisory-board/public-policy/franco-bassanini/|website=OMFIF|accessdate=19 July 2015|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304214518/http://www.omfif.org/about/advisory-board/public-policy/franco-bassanini/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Electoral history==
{|class=wikitable style="width:65%; border:1px #AAAAFF solid"
|-
! width=12%|Election
! width=25%|House
! width=30%|Constituency
! width=5% colspan="2"|Party
! width=12%|Votes
! width=25%|Result
|-
! [[1979 Italian general election|1979]]
| [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Chamber of Deputies]]
| [[List of Italian constituencies (1946–1994)#Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone|Rome–Viterbo–Latina–Frosinone]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Italian Socialist Party}}" |
| [[Italian Socialist Party|PSI]]
| 18,722
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
|-
! [[1983 Italian general election|1983]]
| [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Chamber of Deputies]]
| [[List of Italian constituencies (1946–1994)#Milan–Pavia|Milan–Pavia]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Italian Communist Party}}" |
| [[Italian Communist Party|PCI]]
| 8,503
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
|-
! [[1987 Italian general election|1987]]
| [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Chamber of Deputies]]
| [[List of Italian constituencies (1946–1994)#Milan–Pavia|Milan–Pavia]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Italian Communist Party}}" |
| [[Italian Communist Party|PCI]]
| 15,039
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
|-
! [[1992 Italian general election|1992]]
| [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Chamber of Deputies]]
| [[List of Italian constituencies (1946–1994)#Milan–Pavia|Milan–Pavia]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party of the Left}}" |
| [[Democratic Party of the Left|PDS]]
| 9,598
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
|-
! [[1994 Italian general election|1994]]
| [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Chamber of Deputies]]
| [[Lombardy|Lombardy 1]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party of the Left}}" |
| [[Democratic Party of the Left|PDS]]
| –{{efn|name=fn1|Elected in a [[closed list]] proportional representation system.}}
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
|-
! [[1996 Italian general election|1996]]
| [[Senate of the Republic (Italy)|Senate of the Republic]]
| [[Tuscany]] – [[Siena]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party of the Left}}" |
| [[Democratic Party of the Left|PDS]]
| 108,816
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
|-
! [[2001 Italian general election|2001]]
| [[Senate of the Republic (Italy)|Senate of the Republic]]
| [[Tuscany]] – [[Siena]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Democrats of the Left}}" |
| [[Democrats of the Left|DS]]
| 94,655
| {{tick|15}} '''Elected'''
|-
! [[2006 Italian general election|2006]]
| [[Senate of the Republic (Italy)|Senate of the Republic]]
| [[Sicily]]
| bgcolor="{{party color|Democrats of the Left}}" |
| [[Democrats of the Left|DS]]
| –{{efn|Candidate in a [[closed list]] proportional representation system.}}
| {{cross|15}} '''Not elected'''
|-
|}
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== Honours ==
* {{ITA}}: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, 13 January 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana |url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/333993 |access-date=October 24, 2022 |website=Quirinale |language=it}}</ref>

==References==
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