Autore
Gustapane, Enrico

Titolo
La pensione di Giolitti
Periodico
Le Carte e la storia
Anno: 2015 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 84 - Pagina finale: 93

Giovanni Giolitti was a civil servant for thirty-one years. He came on duty at the age oftwenty-one on 25th January 1863 as "applied to 4th class" of the Ministry of Justice, he wasthen magistrate, Inspector General at the Ministry of Finance and, in the same Ministry,Acting Head of the Directorate General of Revenues, and later, Secretary General of theCourt of Auditors, and finally, from 21st August 1882, State Counsellor. The appointmentto the Council of State didn't keep him from being elected in Parliament on 26 October1882, since at that time there was no incompatibility between the membership in the administrativejudiciary and the parliamentary activity. He took part for the first time inGovernment from 14th September to 9th December 1890, as Minister for Treasury andFinance. He resigned after disagreements with the Prime Minister Francesco Crispi and hejoined again the Government from 15th May 1892, as Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. His Government, however, had short duration as he was forced to resign, on 15thDecember 1893, due to the "scandal of the Roman Bank". Giolitti, who was then fifty-oneyears old, applied for an early retirement from the position of State Counsellor. The pensionwas liquidated on 31st January 1894 by the Court of Auditors, Section 2. The ProsecutorGeneral of the Court of Auditors appealed to the United Chambers of the same Court, claimingthe illegality of the pension. The United Chambers rejected the appeal, stating that ithad been regularly calculated. The major jurisprudence journals of the time severely criticizedthe decision, arguing that Giolitti was allocated a pension amount much higher thanthat due to him under the law.



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