{{Short description|Italian lawyer and politician (born 1938)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Carmelo Conte.jpg | image_size = | caption = | office = Minister for Urban Problems | prime_minister = {{ubl|Giulio Andreotti | Giuliano Amato}} | term_start = 22 July 1989 | term_end = 28 April 1993 | predecessor = | successor = | office1 = Member of the Chamber of Deputies | term_start1 = 20 June 1979 | term_end1 = 14 April 1994 | constituency1 = Benevento | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|11|9|df=y}} | birth_place = Piaggine, Salerno | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | party = Italian Socialist Party | alma_mater = | spouse = | occupation = Lawyer | children = }} '''Carmelo Conte''' (born 1938) is an Italian retired lawyer and socialist politician who served as the minister for urban areas problems for three terms.
==Biography== Conte was born in Piaggine, Salerno, on 9 November 1938.<ref name=ipa/><ref name=arac/> He has a bachelor's degree in law.<ref name=ipa>{{cite web|title=Conte, Carmelo|publisher=Italian Parliament|url=http://legislature.camera.it/chiosco.asp?cp=1&position=VIII%20Legislatura%20/%20I%20Deputati&content=deputati/legislatureprecedenti/Leg08/framedeputato.asp?Deputato=d20990|access-date=31 January 2022|language=it}}</ref> He was a member of the Italian Socialist Party.<ref name=itasen/> Conte was one of the close allies of Bettino Craxi, leader of the party.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Martin Rhodes|title=The 'long wave' subsidies: the PSI and the demise of craxismo|journal=Italian Politics|volume=8|year=1993|jstor=45132571|page=77}}</ref>
Conte was first elected to the Italian Parliament in 1979 for the Italian Socialist Party from Benevento.<ref name=ipa/> He served in the Parliament for three more terms until 1994.<ref name=arac>{{cite web|title=Carmelo Conte|publisher=Aracne editrice|access-date=31 January 2022|language=it|url=http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/autori.html?auth-id=274383}}</ref><ref name=itasen>{{cite web|title=Carmelo Conti |language=it|publisher=Italian Senate|access-date=31 January 2022|url=https://www.senato.it/leg/10/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00000664.htm}}</ref> Patrick McCarthy, an American scholar, argues that Conte created a nepotic network in his election region based in Salerno like other leading socialist politicians of the period.<ref>{{cite book|author=Patrick McCarthy|title=The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi and Beyond|publisher=St. Martin's Press|year=1997|isbn=978-0-312-16359-4|page=135 |location=New York|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xG2X3fm05xkC&pg=PA135}}</ref>
Conte was appointed minister without portfolio for urban problems on 22 July 1989 to the sixth cabinet of Giulio Andreotti.<ref name=itasen/> He also held the post in the next cabinet of Giulio Andreotti and in the first cabinet of Giuliano Amato.<ref name=ipa1/> Conte's term ended on 28 April 1993.<ref name=ipa1>{{cite web|title=Conte, Carmelo|publisher=Italian Parliament|access-date=31 January 2022|language=it|url=https://legislature.camera.it/chiosco.asp?cp=1&position=XI%20Legislatura%20/%20I%20Deputati&content=deputati/legislatureprecedenti/Leg11/framedeputato.asp?Deputato=d20990}}</ref>
Conte has been the author of several books<ref name=arac/> last of which was published in 2019.<ref>{{cite news|title=Carmelo Conte presenta il suo volume "L'Italia al tempo dei populismi"|access-date=31 January 2022 |url=https://www.nuovairpinia.it/2019/06/29/carmelo-conte-presenta-il-suo-volume-litalia-al-tempo-dei-populismi/|work=Nuova Irpinia|date=29 June 2019|language=it}}</ref>
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