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{{Short description|Italian politician (1905–2009)}}
{{for|the Italian footballer born in 1977|Giuseppe Alessi (footballer)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix =
|name = Giuseppe Alessi
|image = Giuseppe Alessi (Italian politician).jpg
|office = [[List of Presidents of Sicily|1st and 3rd President of Sicily]]
|term_start = 30 May 1947
|term_end = 13 June 1949
|predecessor = '''Office created''' ([[Giovanni Selvaggi]] as High Commissary)
|successor = [[Franco Restivo]]
|term_start1 = 5 June 1955
|term_end1 = 4 April 1956
|predecessor1 = [[Franco Restivo]]
|successor1 = [[Giuseppe La Loggia]]
|office2 = [[Chamber of Deputies (Italy)|Member of the Chamber]]
|term_start2 = 27 May 1968
|term_end2 = 24 May 1972
|constituency2 = [[Palermo]]
|office3 = [[Senate of the Republic (Italy)|Member of the Senate]]
|term_start3 = 17 May 1963
|term_end3 = 4 June 1968
|constituency3 = [[Piazza Armerina]]
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|10|29|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[San Cataldo, Sicily|San Cataldo]], [[Sicily]], [[Kingdom of Italy]]
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2009|07|13|1905|10|29|df=yes}}
|death_place = [[Palermo]], [[Sicily]], Italy
|party = [[Italian People's Party (1919)|Italian People's Party]] {{small|(1921–1926)}} [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]] {{small|(1943–1994)}} [[Rebirth of Christian Democracy]] {{small|(1997–2002)}} [[Christian Democracy (Italy, 2002)|Christian Democracy]] {{small|(2002–2009)}}
|alma_mater = [[University of Palermo]]
|profession = [[Lawyer]], [[politician]]
}}

'''Giuseppe Alessi''' (29 October 1905 – 13 July 2009) was an [[Italians|Italian]] politician. From 1968 to 1973 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies,<ref name="dep">{{cite web |title=Giuseppe Alessi / Deputati / Camera dei deputati - Portale storico |url=https://storia.camera.it/deputato/giuseppe-alessi-19051029 |website=storia.camera.it |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref> and from 1963 to 1968 a member of the Senate.<ref>{{cite web |title=Scheda di attività di Giuseppe ALESSI - IV Legislatura {{!}} Senato della Repubblica |url=https://www.senato.it/legislature/4/composizione/senatori/elenco-alfabetico/scheda-attivita?did=00009629 |website=www.senato.it |access-date=5 December 2024}}</ref> From 1947 to 1949 he was also President of Sicily.<ref>{{cite web |title=Alessi Giuseppe |url=https://www.ars.sicilia.it/deputati/alessi-giuseppe |website=www.ars.sicilia.it |access-date=5 December 2024 |language=it |date=29 October 1905}}</ref>

==Biography==
Alessi was born in [[San Cataldo (CL)|San Cataldo, Caltanissetta, Sicily]].<ref>{{cite web |title=ALESSI, Giuseppe |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-alessi_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/ |website=Treccani |access-date=5 December 2024 |language=it}}</ref> He was one of the founding members of the Christian Democratic (Democrazia Cristiana) party on the island and became the first elected President of the Regional Government of Sicily. He was a member of the reform wing of the DC. From 1968-73, he was a member of the [[Italian Chamber of Deputies]].<ref name="dep" />

Journalist [[Alexander Stille]] interviewed Alessi in the 1990s and asked him about the relations between the Christian Democrats and [[Sicilian Mafia|the Mafia]]: ''"It happened this way. Some people in the Christian Democratic Party approached the separatists, whose backbone were these Mafia bosses and invited them to join the national parties ... [T]he Mafiosi were looking for the road to power, to secure the support they needed for their economic affairs. If the mayor was Republican, they became Republican, if he was Socialist, they were Socialist, if he was Christian Democrat they became Christian Democrat."'' Alessi defended them as a necessary evil of the [[Cold War]] period: ''"The Christian Democrats subordinated their ideals for a supreme interest of national importance: saving the democratic state. The victory of Communism would have meant Italy ended up behind the [[Iron Curtain]]."''

==Political views ==
Alessi's justification of his party's dealings with the Mafia is based on a romantic view of the Mafia of the 1940s and 1950s: ''"They weren't criminals, they were local potentates, neighbourhood bosses, proud men of prestige. Their crimes were basically economic - fraud, forgery, illegal appropriation of property - but they disliked real crime."''<ref>[http://www.alternatives.com/crime/andrioti.html All The Prime Minister's Men] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511233211/http://www.alternatives.com/crime/andrioti.html |date=2008-05-11 }}, by [[Alexander Stille]],
''The Independent on Sunday'', 24 September 1995.</ref>

==Death==
Alessi died in Palermo, aged 103, on 13 July 2009.

== Honour ==
* {{ITA}}: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (10 may 1974)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Le onorificenze della Repubblica Italiana |url=https://www.quirinale.it/onorificenze/insigniti/35056 |access-date= October 24, 2022|website=www.quirinale.it}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110725225054/http://democraziacristianagiarre.org/?p=16 "Giuseppe Alessi. Il primo presidente"], Articolo da “Il venerdì” di La Repubblica, 22 June 2007 {{in lang|it}}
* [http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Regioni/Sicilia.php?id=3.0.2648282944 Announcement of Giuseppe Alessi's 103rd birthday (in Italian)] {{in lang|it}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090830030233/http://www.agi.it/palermo/notizie/200907132020-cro-rt11225-sicilia_morto_giuseppe_alessi_primo_presidente_della_regione Obituary (in Italian)] {{in lang|it}}

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