Guido Bodrato
Bodrato in 1983
Minister of Public Education
In office 18 October 1980 – 1 December 1982
Prime Minister	Arnaldo Forlani Giovanni Spadolini
Preceded by	Adolfo Sarti
Succeeded by	Franca Falcucci
Minister of Budget
In office 2 December 1982 – 29 April 1983
Prime Minister	Amintore Fanfani
Preceded by	Giorgio La Malfa
Succeeded by	Pietro Longo
Minister of Industry, Commerce and Craftsmanship
In office 12 April 1991 – 28 June 1992
Prime Minister	Giulio Andreotti
Preceded by	Adolfo Battaglia
Succeeded by	Giuseppe Guarino
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 5 June 1968 – 14 April 1994
Constituency	Turin
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 1999 – 1 July 2004
Constituency	North-West Italy
Personal details
Born	(1933-03-27)27 March 1933 Monteu Roero, Italy
Died	8 June 2023(2023-06-08) (aged 90) Chieri, Italy
Political party	DC (until 1994) PPI (1994–2002) DL (2002-2007)
Alma mater	University of Turin
Profession	Politician, economist

Guido Bodrato (27 March 1933 – 8 June 2023) was an Italian politician.

Biography

Bodrato was born in Monteu Roero, in Piedmont, and graduated in jurisprudence. He entered Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, or DC) and was elected in the Italian Chamber of Deputies for that party from 1968 to 1994. He was also municipal councillor in Turin. Together with Carlo Donat-Cattin, he was a leader of DC's Forze Nuove internal wing (a left wing), and later, as a collaborator of Benigno Zaccagnini, a founder of the so-called Area Zac with Mino Martinazzoli and others.

Bodrato was Minister of Education from 1980 and 1982 (Forlani and Spadolini I/II cabinets), then, in 1982-1983, Minister of Economic Balance in the Fanfani V cabinet. After a period as DC's vice-secretary under Ciriaco De Mita and then Arnaldo Forlani, he was again minister, this time of Industry and Commerce, in 1991-1992 (Andreotti VII Cabinet).

During the Mani Pulite scandal that wiped out DC and other Italian traditional government parties, he supported the renovation of new secretary Mino Martinazzoli, and the foundation of the new Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare Italiano, PPI). From 1996 to 1999 he was director of the party's newspaper Il Popolo. Bodrato was elected in the PPI's lists at the European Parliament in 1999-2004.

Bodrato died on 8 June 2023, at the age of 90.^[1]