Communist Refoundation Party (Italy)
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Communist Refoundation Party
Partito della Rifondazione Comunista |
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| Secretary | Maurizio Acerbo |
| Founder | Armando Cossutta |
| Founded | 12 December 1991 |
| Split from | Italian Communist Party |
| Headquarters | Via degli Scialoja 3 00196, Rome |
| Newspaper | Liberazione |
| Youth wing | Young Communists |
| Membership (2015) | 17,053 |
| Ideology | Communism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| National affiliation |
Progressives (1994–1995) Olive Tree (external support, 1996–1998) The Union (2005–2008) SA (2008) FdS (2009–2012) RC (2012–2013) AET (2014) PaP (2017–present) |
| 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 |
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The Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC) is a communist party in Italy.
The party's current secretary is Maurizio Acerbo, who replaced Paolo Ferrero in 2017. The PRC is a member of the Party of the European Left (EL), of which Fausto Bertinotti, the former PRC long-time leader (1994–2008), was the founding president in 2004. The PRC has not been represented in the Italian Parliament since 2008, but has a member of the European Parliament, Eleonora Forenza, who sits with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group.
In February 1991, when the Italian Communist Party (PCI) was transformed into the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) under the leadership of Achille Occhetto, left-wing dissidents led by Armando Cossutta launched the "Movement for Communist Refoundation". Later that year, Proletarian Democracy (DP), a far-left outfit, dissolved itself so that its members could join the PCI dissidents and form a united front of all Italian communists. In December the PRC was officially founded and Sergio Garavini was elected secretary. In the 1992 general election the party obtained 5.6% of the vote.
Garavini resigned from secretary in June 1993 and was replaced by Fausto Bertinotti, a trade unionist of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL) who had left the PDS only a few months before, in January 1994. In the 1994 general election the PRC was part of the PDS-led Alliance of Progressives and obtained 6.1% of the vote. In June 1995 a group of splinters led by Lucio Magri and Famiano Crucianelli formed the Movement of Unitarian Communists (MCU), which would eventually merge with the PDS, being one of the founding members of the Democrats of the Left (DS) in February 1998.
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