Marco Boato (born 27 July 1944 in

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) is an

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Biography

In 1969 Boato was one of the founders, together with

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, Paolo Sorbi, Mauro Rostagno, Guido Viale, Paolo Brogi and Giorgio Pietrostefani, of the communist political movement

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. A progressive Christian, in 1973 he was among the promoters of the

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movement. Subsequently, he joined

Proletarian Democracy Proletarian Democracy ( it, Democrazia Proletaria, DP) was a far-left political party in Italy. History 1970s DP was founded in 1975 as a joint electoral front of the Proletarian Unity Party (PdUP), Workers Vanguard (AO) and the "Workers Movemen ...

and the Radical Party. He has served as Deputy and Senator several times between 1979 and 2008. He holds the record for the longest speech held in the history of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, for the speech he delivered in 1981 lasting over 18 hours and 5 minutes against the extension of one year of police detention established by a decree law of Francesco Cossiga."Quando eravamo noi radicali a fare ostruzionismo"
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