Paolo Cirino Pomicino, one of the best-known faces of the so-called First Republic, has passed away at the age of 87. He was born in Naples on 3 September 1939, graduated in medicine, Pomicino died in a Roman clinic where he had been hospitalized for a few days. A key figure of the Christian Democracy and linked to the current led by Giulio Andreotti, Pomicino entered politics in 1970 as a municipal councilor of the DC in the Campania capital. Elected for the first time to the Chamber in 1976 and then for several subsequent legislatures (until 1992), Pomicino was president of the Budget Commission, became Minister of Public Function in the De Mita government (1988-1989) and then head of the Budget in the Andreotti VI and VII governments. Pomicino was involved in the Mani Pulite investigation in 1993. In the 2004 European elections he was elected to the European Parliament with Mastella’s Udeur. In 2006, he left Brussels because he was elected to the Chamber on the list formed by the DC together with the New PSI. In 2008 he was not re-nominated.
