Communist Refoundation Party
The Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista, 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.
Communist Refoundation Party Partito della Rifondazione Comunista | |
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| Secretary | Maurizio Acerbo |
| Founder | Armando Cossutta |
| Founded | 6 January 1991 12 December 1991 |
| Split from | Italian Communist Party |
| Headquarters | Via degli Scialoja 3, Rome |
| Newspaper | Liberazione (1991–2014) Sù la testa (since 2020) |
| Youth wing | Young Communists |
| Membership (2019) | 11,496 |
| Ideology | Communism |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| National affiliation | 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) People's Union (2022–present) |
| European affiliation | Party of the European Left |
| International affiliation | IMCWP |
| European Parliament group | European United Left–Nordic Green Left (1995–2009, 2014–2019) |
| Colours | Red |
| Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 400 |
| Senate | 0 / 200 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
| Regional Councils | 0 / 896 |
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| Website | |
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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.