Partito Comunista Italiano (2016)

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Partito Comunista Italiano
Partito Comunista Italiano (2016) .svg
Party leader Mauro Alboresi
founding June 26, 2016
Headquarters Viale Mazzini, 146

00195 Rome

Alignment communism
International connections International meeting of communist and workers' parties
Website ilpartitocomunista.it

The Partito Comunista Italiano (abbreviated PCI) is a party created in Italy in 2016 .

history

The PCI, which took the name of the Communist Party of Italy that existed from 1921 to 1991 , emerged in 2016 from the merger of the Italian Communist Party (PCdI) with parts of the members of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC) and smaller groups.

After the founding congress, Mauro Alboresi was elected national secretary (Segretario Nazionale).

Political positions

In its fundamental documents, the PCI refers positively to the work and ideas of Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin . It also emphasizes its closeness to the political and ideological legacy of the historical PCI, from Antonio Gramsci to Enrico Berlinguer , especially Antonio Gramsci and Palmiro Togliatti are emphasized.

The party is critical of the EU and the euro.

The PCI supports the policies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Chinese President Xi Jinping and the foreign policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She also takes the side of Nicolas Maduro with regard to Venezuela.

Election results

In the parliamentary elections in Italy in 2018 , the PCI ran as part of the left-wing alliance Potere al Popolo (PaP), which received no seats with 1.1% of the vote.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article of the Repubblica on the foundation (Italian.)
  2. ↑ Article by "Il Manifesto" about the foundation (Italian.)
  3. ↑ Program and statute of the party
  4. ^ Report of the II. PCI Party Congress 2019 (Italy.)
  5. ↑ Declaration of solidarity of the PCI (Italy.)
  6. ↑ Report on the elections from today.it (Italy.)