Aldo Aniasi

Aldo Aniasi, OMRI (31 May 1921 – 27 August 2005) was an Italian politician.

Aniasi was born in Palmanova, in Friuli. In 1943 he joined in the Brigate Garibaldi, the paramilitary wing of the Italian Communist Party into the Italian resistance. He fought in Piedmont, in Valsesia and Ossola's areas. In 1945 he was appointed briefly as liutenat for the National Liberation Committee in Milan.

After the WW2, Aniasi left the Italian Communist Party, adhering to Italian Democratic Socialist Party Aniasi was councilman of Milan from 1951 to 1967, when he became Mayor of the city after the resignation of Pietro Bucalossi. He contributed to Bucalossi's fall when he left the Demcoratic Socialist to joined in Italian Socialist Party. Mayor during the "Years of Lead", Aniasi started a discord with the prefect Libero Mazza. While Mazza supported law and order policies against the Red Brigades and terrorists, Aniasi supported the police's disarming. Aniasi was also criticized to give small relevance to the terrorism.

In 1976, he was elected in the Chamber of Deputies, whre he remained until 1994. In 1980s, he was Minister of Health in the Cossiga II and Forlani Cabinets. As Minister, he created the National Health Service.

After 1994, he left the politics until 1998, when he joined in to the Democrats of the Left, became member of its directive council. He died in Milan in 2005 and is buried at the city's Monumental Cemetery.