Massimo D'Alema

Massimo D'Alema
Prime Minister of Italy
In office 21 October 1998 – 26 April 2000
President	Oscar Luigi Scalfaro Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
Deputy	Sergio Mattarella
Preceded by	Romano Prodi
Succeeded by	Giuliano Amato
Deputy Prime Minister of Italy
In office 17 May 2006 – 8 May 2008
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Giulio Tremonti
Succeeded by	Angelino Alfano
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In office 17 May 2006 – 8 May 2008
Prime Minister	Romano Prodi
Preceded by	Gianfranco Fini
Succeeded by	Franco Frattini
Vice-President of the Socialist International
In office 29 October 2003 – 29 August 2012
President	António Guterres George Papandreou
In office 11 September 1996 – 7 November 1999
President	Pierre Mauroy
Party political offices President of the Democrats of the Left In office 6 November 1998 – 14 October 2007 Preceded by Giglia Tedesco Tatò Succeeded by Position abolished Secretary of the Democrats of the Left In office 12 February 1998 – 6 November 1998 Preceded by Position established Succeeded by Walter Veltroni Secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left In office 1 July 1994 – 12 February 1998 Preceded by Achille Occhetto Succeeded by Position abolished Secretary of the Italian Communist Youth Federation In office 3 April 1975 – 12 June 1980 Preceded by Renzo Imbeni Succeeded by Marco Fumagalli
Parliamentary offices Chair of the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic In office 26 January 2010 – 15 March 2013 Preceded by Francesco Rutelli Succeeded by Giacomo Stucchi Member of the Chamber of Deputies In office 28 April 2006 – 14 March 2013 Constituency Apulia In office 2 July 1987 – 19 July 2004 Constituency Lecce–Brindisi–Taranto (1987–1994) Casarano (1994–2004) Member of the European Parliament In office 20 July 2004 – 27 April 2006 Constituency Southern Italy
Personal details
Born	(1949-04-20) 20 April 1949 (age 75) Rome, Italy
Political party	PCI (1963–1991) PDS (1991–1998) DS (1998–2007) PD (2007–2017) Art.1 (2017–2023)
Spouse	Linda Giuva
Children	2
Website	www.massimodalema.it
Massimo D'Alema's voice D'Alema talks about democracy Recorded 20 March 2024

Massimo D'Alema (Italian pronunciation: [ˈmassimo daˈlɛːma]; born 20 April 1949) is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000.^[1] He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008.^[2] D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS).^[1][2] Earlier in his career, D'Alema was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was the first former Communist party member to become prime minister of a NATO country and the only former PCI prime minister of Italy.^[1][2] Due to his first name and for his dominant position in the left-wing coalitions during the Second Republic, he is referred to as Leader Maximo ("Maximum Leader").^[3][4][5] He is also the author of several books.^[1][2]

A member of the PCI since 1963, D'Alema was a member of the party's central committee and then of the leadership and party secretariat; from 1975 to 1980, he was also secretary of the Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI).^[6] He was supportive of Achille Occhetto's turning point that dissolved the PCI and established the PDS, and he presided over the establishment of The Olive Tree coalition that won the 1996 Italian general election and the transformation of the PDS into the Democrats of the Left (DS) in 1998, the same year he became prime minister.^[1][2] A member of Italy's Chamber of Deputies from 1987 to 2004 and then from 2006 to 2013, he was also a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2006. He joined the Democratic Party (PD) upon its foundation in 2007. He opposed Matteo Renzi's secretariat and was contrasted with the Renziani wing within the party, which he left in 2017 to become a founder of Article One.^[2]