21 Facts About Mario Segni

Mariotto Segni was born on 16 May 1939 and is a retired Italian politician and professor of civil law.

Mario Segni founded several parties, which focused on fighting for electoral reform through referendums.

Mario Segni is the son of the politician Antonio Segni, one-time president of Italy.

Mario Segni was born to Antonio Segni, himself a prominent politician, and Laura Carta Caprino, who would have a total of four children.

Mario Segni was the chair of the Faculty of Law at the University of Sassari until his retirement in 2011.

Shortly after gaining his position at the University of Sassari, Mario Segni ran for the national parliament in 1976.

Mario Segni came second behind Francesco Cossiga with 85,736 votes but still won a seat.

Mario Segni served as State Secretary of the Ministry Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies in the second Craxi government and in the sixth Fanfani government.

Mario Segni was chairman of the Control Committee for Information and Security Services and for State Secrecy from 1987 to 1991.

Mario Segni founded the Populars for Reform that same year, with the goal of changing the electoral system from proportional representation to a first-past-the-post system.

In 1993, Mario Segni broke from the Christian Democrats, who were suffering from tangentopoli, while he served in the XI legislature.

Mario Segni had hoped to capitalize on the political vacuum left by the now tainted Christian Democrats.

Mario Segni was a candidate for Prime Minister for the centrist alliance Pact for Italy in 1994, and a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 1995.

Mario Segni was a part of the European Parliament's delegation to the Arab Maghreb Union.

Mario Segni's party joined with the Italian Renewal List while he began refocusing on teaching.

In 1999, Mario Segni returned to the domestic political scene, with the aim of attempting to abolish proportional quotas via referendums.

In 2003 he rebranded the Mario Segni Pact, combining forces with Carlo Scognamiglio and former Mario Segni Pact member's the Sardinian Reformers, naming it the Pact of Liberal Democrats.

On 24 July 2007, Mario Segni handed over 800,000 signatures to the Court of Cassation for the presentation of the Electoral Referendum.

Mario Segni is the current president of the Antonio Segni Foundation, which seeks to put his father's work online.

Mario Segni's work targeting the electoral system through referendums have been described as "contributing to the collapse of the established political system" of the first republic.

Mario Segni has criticized prominent politicians in Italy such as Berlusconi and movements within the country.