Editing Gianni Agnelli (section)

== Politics ==
Politically, Agnelli did not join any party and remained an [[independent politician]]; nonetheless, he was close to the [[Italian Republican Party]] (PRI), and was described as the Republican monarch of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|last=De Bortoli|first=Ferruccio|date=24 January 2023|url=https://www.corriere.it/economia/aziende/23_gennaio_24/gianni-agnelli-monarca-repubblicano-fiat-parallelo-cuccia-quella-battuta-vento-1475b738-9b65-11ed-a6c0-015065345ec9.shtml|title=Agnelli, il monarca repubblicano. La Fiat, il parallelo con Cuccia e quella battuta sul vento|work={{Lang|it|Corriere della Sera}}|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> He had amicable relations with the [[Italian Democratic Socialist Party]] (PSDI) and [[Italian Socialist Party]] (PSI) leaders [[Giuseppe Saragat]] and [[Sandro Pertini]], respectively, as well as with [[Francesco Cossiga]] of [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]] (DC) and [[Carlo Azeglio Ciampi]].<ref name="Cingolani 2013">{{cite web|last=Cingolani|first=Stefano|date=24 January 2013|url=https://www.linkiesta.it/2013/01/quando-agnelli-disse-berlusconi-in-politica-prende-il-3/|title=Quando Agnelli disse: 'Berlusconi in politica? Prende il 3%'|website=Linkiesta|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> Despite their political differences and conflicts like the ''{{ill|Marcia dei quarantamila|it|Marcia dei quarantamila}}'' in 1980, he also had relatively amicable relations with the [[Italian Communist Party]] (PCI),<ref name="Stewart 2018"/> particularly during the leadership of [[Enrico Berlinguer]]; in 2013, [[Giorgio Napolitano]], former PCI member and then president of Italy, described it as "sincere cordiality and sympathy".<ref name="Mauro 2013">{{cite web|last=Mauro|first=Ezio|date=13 January 2013|url=https://www.repubblica.it/persone/2013/01/13/news/napolitano_io_il_pci_e_l_avvocato-50425796/|title=Napolitano: 'Il mio ricordo di Agnelli. Quelle cene a New York parlando del Pci'|work={{Lang|it|La Repubblica}}|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> Several notable PCI leaders, such as [[Palmiro Togliatti]],<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Magno|first=Michele|date=25 September 2021|url=https://www.startmag.it/mondo/gramsci-e-togliatti-la-rivoluzione-e-la-juventus/|title=Gramsci e Togliatti, la rivoluzione e la Juventus|magazine=Start Magazine|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> [[Luciano Lama]], and Berlinguer,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Gagliani|first=Annibale|date=25 May 2022|url=https://www.rivistacontrasti.it/berlinguer-enrico-calcio-juventus-lazio/|title=Enrico Berlinguer, il calciatore|magazine=Rivista Contrasti|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> and allegedly [[Antonio Gramsci]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Eomeo|first=Ilaria|date=1 November 2020|url=https://www.collettiva.it/copertine/italia/2020/11/01/news/la_squadra_del_padrone-517702/|title=La squadra del padrone|work=Collettiva|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> were supporters of Agnelli's Juventus.<ref>{{cite news|last=Coccia|first=Pasquale|date=25 September 2021|url=https://ilmanifesto.it/i-comunisti-scendono-in-campo|title=I comunisti scendono in campo|work=Il manifesto|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|last=Mainente|first=Andrea|date=3 August 2022|url=https://www.rivistacontrasti.it/juventus-comunismo-squadra-comunista-lama-berlinguer-togliatti-gramsci-bersani/|title=La Juventus comunista|magazine=Rivista Contrasti|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref>

Like other family members, such as his grandfather, Agnelli sought to create a non-ideological, [[centrist]] political formation of [[Atlanticist]] and [[pro-European]] persuasion that sought a modernising, internationalist capitalism in contrast to the left and opposed to the populist, nationalist, or fascist right.<ref name="Cingolani 2013"/> He received his first public assignment in 1961 when, on the occasion of the celebrations for the first centenary of the [[unification of Italy]], he was appointed president of the [[Expo 61]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Adamson|editor-first1=Natalie|editor-last2=Harris|editor-first2=Steven|date=24 July 2017|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pmu6DgAAQBAJ|title=Material Imagination: Art in Europe, 1946–72|edition=paperback|location=Hoboken, New Jersey|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Pmu6DgAAQBAJ&pg=PA101 101]–102|isbn=978-1-119-32857-5|access-date=13 February 2023}}</ref> In the 1970s, there were talks of forming a secular bloc between the [[Italian Liberal Party]], PSDI, and PRI, and take over the place of the DC. Ahead of the [[1976 Italian general election]], then PRI secretary [[Ugo La Malfa]] offered Agnelli a candidacy on the party lists;<ref name="Buttington 2020">{{cite web|last=Buttington|first=Ivan|date=2020|url=https://www.totalita.it/articolo.asp?articolo=4469&categoria=1&sezione=48&rubrica=|title=Quando Gianni Agnelli fu costretto a rinunciare al partito Repubblicano|website=Totalità.it|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref> in turn, Agnelli offered his disponibility to be the [[Ambassador of the Italian Republic to the United States]].<ref name="Mauro 2013"/> The DC was ultimately able to not only have Agnelli retire his PRI candidacy, which could have cost them about one million votes, by raising the prospect of economic retaliations for [[Fiat]] but also convinced [[Umberto Agnelli]], his younger brother, to join the DC.<ref name="Buttington 2020"/> He turned down the invite by then president [[Oscar Luigi Scalfaro]] to become [[Prime Minister of Italy]] after Ciampi.<ref name="Cingolani 2013"/>

In 1991, Agnelli was appointed [[senator for life]] by Cossiga, then president of the Italian Republic.<ref name="Gentile 2021"/> He joined the [[For the Autonomies]] group and was admitted to the Defense Commission of the Senate. In 1994, he was among the three life senators (together with [[Giovanni Leone]] and Cossiga) to vote their confidence in the [[Berlusconi I Cabinet]]; it was the first time in the history of Italy that life senators were decisive for the confidence in an executive. When Berlusconi was about to enter politics, he said: "If he wins, an entrepreneur will have won. If he loses, Berlusconi will have lost."<ref>{{cite book|last=Galli|first=Giancarlo|date=2003|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZGRzHQAACAAJ|title=Gli Agnelli: il tramonto di una dinastia|language=it|edition=paperback|location=Milan|publisher=Mondadori|page=278|isbn=978-88-04-51768-9|access-date=9 February 2023|via=Google Books}}</ref> When the [[Prodi I Cabinet]] fell in 1998 and [[Massimo D'Alema]] was appointed Prime Minister of Italy and became the first [[post-Communist]] to hold the office of a [[NATO]] country, as well as Italy's only post-Communist prime minister, his vote in favour of confidence caused a sensation. He told the press that "today in Italy a left-wing government is the only one that can make right-wing policies."<ref>{{cite news|last=Lottieri|first=Carlo|date=25 August 2015|url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/commento-2-1163058.html|title=Se la sinistra è costretta a copiare ricette di destra|work=Il Giornale|language=it|access-date=7 February 2023}}</ref>