Departures of note

Massimiliano Cencelli was a functionary of the Italian Christian Democracy party during the 1960s who gained lasting recognition for a political method that bore his name. The "Manuale Cencelli" became a journalistic expression referring to the allocation of political roles and government positions among various parties or factions in proportion to their electoral weight or party membership.

The method originated in 1967 at the Christian Democracy congress in Milan, when Cencelli proposed that party and government positions should be distributed based on membership cards, similar to how shares determine roles in a company board. This approach influenced appointments including Taviani to Interior, Gasari as Undersecretary to Posts, Cossiga to Defense, and Sarti to Tourism and Entertainment.

Decades after its creation, the "Manuale Cencelli" remained part of Italian political vocabulary, cited in university texts and invoked whenever government positions needed to be distributed while respecting different political equilibriums and weights. Cencelli died in Rome at the age of 90.