Marco Pannella

The Honourable Marco Pannella


President of the Transnational Radical Party
In office 1 January 1989 – 19 May 2016
Succeeded by	vacant
Member of the European Parliament for North-West Italy
In office 17 July 1979 – 6 June 2009
Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies
In office 5 July 1976 – 14 April 1994
Constituency	Turin (1976–79; 1992–94) Napoli (1979–83) Milano (1983–87) Palermo (1987–92)
Personal details
Born	Giacinto Pannella (1930-05-02)2 May 1930 Teramo, Italy
Died	19 May 2016(2016-05-19) (aged 86) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Italian Liberal Party (1945–1955) Radical Party (1955–1989) Pannella-Reformers List (1992–1999) Bonino List (1999–2004) Italian Radicals (2001–2016)
Domestic partner	Mirella Parachini (m. 1974; his d. 2016)
Alma mater	Sapienza University of Rome
Profession	Journalist
Religion	Spiritual atheism
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Marco Pannella (born Giacinto Pannella; 2 May 1930 – 19 May 2016) was an Italian politician, journalist and activist. He was well known in his country for his nonviolence and civil rights' campaigns, like the right to divorce, the right to abortion, the legalization of cannabis and the definitive abolition of nuclear power. Internationally, he supported human rights and self-determination causes, like the Tibetan independence and persecution of Christians in Vietnam.

He was the historic leader of the Radical Party (the first expression of the Radicals in post-World War II Italy was the Italian Radical Party, founded in 1955). Between 1979 and 2009, he was a Member of the European Parliament, where he sat as a full member in the Committee on Legal Affairs, in the Committee on Budgetary Control and in the Delegation for relations with Israel. He was also President of the Nonviolent Radical Party.

He's considered an example of left-libertarian and liberal socialist.

Marco Pannella was born in Teramo (Abruzzo) from an Italian father and a Swiss mother on 2 May 1930.