Gianni Cuperlo
| Gianni Cuperlo | |
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| President of the Democratic Party | |
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In office 15 December 2013 – 21 January 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Rosy Bindi |
| Succeeded by | Matteo Orfini |
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3 September 1961 Trieste, Italy |
| Political party | Democratic Party |
| Alma mater | University of Bologna |
| Profession | Politician |
Giovanni "Gianni" Cuperlo (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒanni ˈkuperlo]) is an Italian politician, a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and former President of the Democratic Party.
Gianni Cuperlo was born 3 September 1961 in Trieste. He attended the Francesco Petrarca lyceum, at which he first became interested in student politics. It was during this period that he first joined the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI).
Following completion of his lyceum education in 1980, Cuperlo enrolled at the University of Bologna, from which he graduated with honors, having completed a bachelor's thesis on mass communications.
In 1985, following graduation from the University of Bologna, Cuperlo moved to Rome, where he became a functionary of the FGCI. He was elected national secretary of that organization in 1988 and was thus at the helm during the Revolutions of 1989 which led to the dismantling of the greater part of the world communist movement. Cuperlo was supportive of Communist Party of Italy (PCI) leader Achille Occhetto and his transformation of the historic PCI to a new organization called the Democratic Party of the Left.
Cuperlo and the Italian Communist Youth Federation followed in the footsteps of the adult party in October 1990, reestablishing itself as a broader organization called Sinistra Giovanile (Left Youth). Cuperlo remained as the national leader of the new organization.
Cuperlo's tenure at Sinistra Giovanile ended in 1992, when he aged out of the youth section to become a leader of the adult Democratic Party of the Left, which changed its name shortly thereafter to Democratici di Sinistra (Democrats of the Left). In 2001 Cuperlo was named to the governing National Secretariat of the new party, assuming the role of Director of Communications for the organization.
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