Communist Refoundation Party
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Italian political party
Key facts
- Secretary
- Maurizio Acerbo
- Founder
- Armando Cossutta
- Founded
- 6 January 1991 (as the "Committees for the Communist Refoundation"), 12 December 1991 (creation of the Party List)
- Split from
- Italian Communist Party
- Headquarters
- Via degli Scialoja 3, Rome
- Newspaper
- Liberazione (1991–2014), Su la testa (since 2020)
- Youth wing
- Young Communists
- Membership 2019
- 11,496
- Ideology
- Communism
- Political position
- Far-left
- National affiliation
- See list AdP (1994–1995) Olive Tree (1996–1998; external support) Union (2004–2008) SA (2008) FdS (2009–2012) RC (2012–2013) AET (2014) PaP (2017–2018) The Left (2019) UP (2022–2024) PTD (2024)
- European affiliation
- Party of the European Left
- European parliament group
- European United Left–Nordic Green Left , (1995–2009, 2014–2019)
- International affiliation
- IMCWP
- Colours
- Red
- Anthem
- The Internationale Bandiera Rossa ("Red flag")
- Chamber of deputies
- 0 / 400
- Senate
- 0 / 205
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- political party
- Part of
- Federation of the Left
- Country
- Italy
- Founded by
- Sergio Garavini
- Headquarters
- Rome
- Chairperson
- Armando Cossutta
- Official website
- home.rifondazione.eu
- Political ideology
- anti-Stalinist left
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- political alignment
- radical left
- short name
- PRC
- member count
- 17053
- Commons category
- Partito della Rifondazione Comunista – Sinistra Europea
- inception
- 1991-12-12
- topic's main category
- Category:Communist Refoundation Party
- web feed URL
- www.rifondazione.it/primapagina/?feed=rss2
- party chief representative
- Maurizio Acerbo
- native label
- Partito della Rifondazione Comunista
- catalog code
- L19
- owner of
- Liberazione
- sRGB color hex triplet
- B40404
- separated from
- Italian Communist Party
- replaces
- Italian Communist Party
- social media followers
- 17662
- number of seats in assembly
- 0
- number of viewers/listeners
- 697678
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Encyclopedic overview
The Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, abbr. PRC) is a communist political party in Italy that emerged from a split of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1991. The party's secretary is Maurizio Acerbo, who replaced Paolo Ferrero in 2017. Armando Cossutta was the party's founder, while Fausto Bertinotti its longest-serving leader (1994–2008). The latter transformed the PRC from a traditional communist party into a collection of radical social movements.
The PRC is a member of the Party of the European Left (PEL), of which Bertinotti was the inaugural president in 2004. The PRC has not been represented in the Italian Parliament since 2008, but had a member of the European Parliament, Eleonora Forenza, who sat with the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group in 2014–2019.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Communist Refoundation Party” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.