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

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, who served as leader of the

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(PC) from 2009 to 2023, and as leader of

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in 2022.

Biography

A graduate in

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in 1985, he was a lecturer in

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(1985–1994). From 1986 to 1991, he was a member of the

Turin Province The former Province of Turin ( it, Provincia di Torino; pms, Provinsa ëd Turin; french: Province de Turin) was a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital was the city of Turin. The province existed until 31 December 2014, when it wa ...

party executive of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), and joined the

Communist Refoundation Party The Communist Refoundation Party ( it, 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 replac ...

(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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. From 1995 to 1998, he was coordinator of the National Secretariat of the PRC, then left to become a founding member and Italian Parliament 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 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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