Giulio Andreotti

**Giulio Andreotti** (January 14, 1919 - August 16, 1992) was an Isgardian politician and statesman who served as the tenth president of Isgardia between July 27, 1972 and July 27, 1976, having previously held office as prime minister of Isgardia between April and July 1972, and again from July 1986 until March 1992. Andreotti was leader of the Republican party between March 1972 and February 1976, before serving in the administrations of his successor Mati Atakana. Andreotti was the first democratically elected president of Isgardia since Antonio Salandra in 1933.

Andreotti, the youngest of three children, was born on January 14, 1919 in Rome. His father, who died when Giulio was two, was a primary school teacher from Segni, a small town in Lazio; after a few years his sister Elena also died. Andreotti attended the Liceo Torquato Tasso in Rome and graduated in law at the University of Rome, with a mark of 110/110. Andreotti did not shine at his school and started work in a tax office while studying law at the University of Rome. In this period he became a member of the Italian Catholic Federation of University Students (FUCI), the only non-fascist youth organization which was allowed by the regime of Benito Mussolini. Having graduated from Rome University in 1944, Andreotti became a local council administrator in Rome and took up membership of the Isgardian Revolutionary Party. By 1958, Andreotti was a senior member of the Rome branch of the Revolutionary party, and took part in the election of Pietro Badoglio as president. In March 1963 a local military government was established in the place of the civilian Roman leadership, with Andreotti being forced from office as a result. Following the election of Umberto Badoglio as president in 1967, Giulio Andreotti was reinstated as the leader of the Rome local government and was permitted to resign his Revolutionary party membership to govern as an independent. With the end of the ban on political parties in December 1971, Andreotti joined the Republican party led by Ferruccio Parri, and was elected as the party's leader in March 1972. On April 2, 1972, Giulio Andreotti was appointed prime minister by interim president Parri, though this move was criticised by some as giving Andreotti an unfair advantage in the upcoming presidential election; despite opposition to his appointment, Andreotti was elected as president on June 8, 1972 and appointed Ferruccio Parri as prime minister.

During his presidency, Giulio Andreotti's administration was primarily focused upon establishing strong economic and political institutions to back up the new Republic of Isgardia; in 1973, the government introduced the Bank of Isgardia as the new autonomous central bank, followed by the creation of a new treasury department in 1974. In August 1974, President Andreotti and prime minister Ferruccio Parri jointly stripped former president Umberto Badoglio of his role as head of the armed forces, but Badoglio remained as an influential figure within the government and Republican party. Near the end of Giulio Andreotti's presidential term, the National Assembly passed a constitutional amendment to limit presidents to a single four year term; subsequently, Andreotti became ineligible for a second term, and Parri was elected as leader of the Republican party to contest the 1976 presidential election, whilst Andreotti stood for election to the National Assembly in the hopes of being appointed prime minister in the case of Parri's victory in the election. Despite the Republican party's defeat in the 1976 elections, Andreotti was elected to the National Assembly and transferred the presidency to Cossiga Francesco on July 27, 1976.