Marco Rizzo (born 12 October 1959 in

Turin Turin ( , Piedmontese language, Piedmontese: ; it, Torino ) is a city and an important business and cultural centre in Northern Italy. It is the capital city of Piedmont and of the Metropolitan City of Turin, and was the first Italian capital ...

) is an Italian politician, leader of the

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(PC) and in 2022 with Sovereign and Popular Italy.

Biography

A graduate in

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in 1985, he was a lecturer in vocational guidance (1985–1994). From 1986 to 1991, he was a member of the Turin Province party executive 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), and joined the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in 1991, serving as its representative to the Council of the Turin Province until 1995. Between 1994 and 2004, he served in the

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. In 1995–1998, he was coordinator of the National Secretariat of the PRC, then left to become a founding member and

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group-leader of the Party of Italian Communists (until 2004). In July 2009, after his expulsion from the Party of Italian Communists (having supported the IdV's candidate

Gianni Vattimo Gianteresio Vattimo (born 4 January 1936) is an Italian philosopher and politician. Biography Gianteresio Vattimo was born in Turin, Piedmont. He studied philosophy under the existentialist Luigi Pareyson at the University of Turin, and graduat ...

in the 2009 European election), he founded a new party called ''Communists – Popular Left'' (then renamed

). Marco Rizzo was a

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for the

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with the

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, Member of the Bureau of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left and vice-chair of the

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