Communist Refoundation Party
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Communist Refoundation Party
Partito della Rifondazione Comunista |
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| Secretary | Paolo Ferrero |
| Founder | Armando Cossutta |
| Founded | 12 December 1991 |
| Preceded by | Italian Communist Party |
| Headquarters | via del Policlinico 131 00161 Rome |
| Newspaper | Liberazione |
| Youth wing | Young Communists |
| Membership (2013) | 32,901 |
| Ideology |
Communism Marxism |
| Political position | Left-wing to Far-left |
| National affiliation |
Progressives (1994–95) Olive Tree (external support, 1996–98) The Union (2005–08) SA (2008) FdS (2009–12) RC (2012–13) AET (2014) |
| European affiliation | Party of the European Left |
| International affiliation | International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties |
| European Parliament group |
European United Left–Nordic Green Left (1995–2009, 2014–present) |
| Colours | Red |
| Chamber of Deputies |
0 / 630
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| Senate |
0 / 315
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| European Parliament |
1 / 73
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The Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC) is a communist party in Italy.
The party participates in the Party of the European Left (of which Fausto Bertinotti, a former PRC leader, was the first president). Its member in the European Parliament sits with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group.
The party's current secretary is Paolo Ferrero, a former minister in Prodi II Cabinet.
In 1991, when the Italian Communist Party (PCI), led by Achille Occhetto, became the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), dissidents led by Armando Cossutta launched the PRC. In the same year Proletarian Democracy (DP), a far-left outfit, merged into the new party, which aimed to unite all Italian communists.
The first secretary of the PRC was Sergio Garavini, who resigned in June 1993 and was replaced by Fausto Bertinotti, a trade unionist from the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) who had left the PDS only some months before.
The leadership of Bertinotti was a turning point for the party, which jumped to 8.6% of vote in the 1996 general election, which the party fought in a loose alliance with the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree. The PRC supported Romano Prodi's first cabinet until 1998, when it turned to opposition and the government lost its majority in Parliament. However, this decision was divisive also in Bertinotti's camp, where a group of dissidents, led by party president Armando Cossutta, split and founded a rival communist outfit, the Party of Italian Communists (PdCI), which joined Massimo D'Alema's first cabinet.
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