Communist Refoundation Party

Communist Refoundation Party
Partito della Rifondazione Comunista
SecretaryMaurizio Acerbo
FounderArmando Cossutta
Founded6 January 1991 (as the "Committees for the Communist Refoundation")
12 December 1991 (creation of the Party List)
Split fromItalian Communist Party
HeadquartersVia degli Scialoja 3, Rome
NewspaperLiberazione (1991–2014)
Su la testa [it] (since 2020)
Youth wingYoung Communists
Membership (2019[1])11,496
IdeologyCommunism
Political positionLeft-wing[2] to far-left[3][4][5][6][7][8]
National affiliationAdP (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)
People's Union (2022–present)
Peace Land Dignity (2024–present)
European affiliationParty of the European Left
European Parliament groupEuropean United Left–Nordic Green Left
(1995–2009, 2014–2019)
International affiliationIMCWP
Colours  Red
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
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European Parliament
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Regional
Councils
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Party flag
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Website
www.rifondazione.it Edit this at Wikidata

The Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, PRC) is a communist[9][10] 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.

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