Gavino Angius (born 18 November 1946) is an

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politician.

Biography

Born at

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(

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), after the degree in

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, he became a member of the

Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Italiano, PCI) was a communist political party in Italy. The PCI was founded as ''Communist Party of Italy'' on 21 January 1921 in Livorno by seceding from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). ...

(PCI), for which he was secretary of his city's section. He was elected for the first time at the

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in 1987. Angius initially opposed the transformation of PCI into the more Social democratic-oriented

Democratic Party of the Left The Democratic Party of the Left ( it, Partito Democratico della Sinistra, PDS) was a democratic socialist and social-democratic political party in Italy. Founded in February 1991 as the post-communist evolution of the Italian Communist Party, ...

(PDS, later

Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left ( it, Democratici di Sinistra, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger of th ...

). However, he remained in the new party while becoming a national level figure, as well as collaborator to secretary

Massimo D'Alema Massimo D'Alema (; born 20 April 1949) is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also serv ...

. Confirmed as deputy in 1992 and 1994 for PDS, he was elected

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two years later. Elected again in 2001, he was named chief of the

senators. Angius became one of the vice-presidents of the

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in May 2006.

References

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