Sammarinese Communist Refoundation ( it, Rifondazione Comunista Sammarinese, RCS) was a

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San Marino San Marino (, ), officially the Republic of San Marino ( it, Repubblica di San Marino; ), also known as the Most Serene Republic of San Marino ( it, Serenissima Repubblica di San Marino, links=no), is the fifth-smallest country in the world an ...

. It was a member of the

European Left The Party of the European Left (PEL), commonly abbreviated European Left, is a European political party that operates as an association of democratic socialist and communist political parties in the European Union and other European countries. ...

History

It emerged in 1992 when the old

Sammarinese Communist Party The Sammarinese Communist Party ( it, Partito Comunista Sammarinese, abbreviated PCS) was a Marxist political party in the small European republic of San Marino. It was founded in 1921 as a section of the Communist Party of Italy (PCI). The organi ...

evolved into the

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and some members, on the example of the Italian Communist Refoundation Party, decided not to join the new party. In the 2001 general election RCS won 3.4% of the vote, while in

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it gained 8.7% and 5 members of the

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as part of the United Left, including the Left Party, a splinter group from the

Party of Democrats The Party of Democrats ( it, Partito dei Democratici, PD) was a social-democratic and democratic socialist political party in San Marino. Its counterpart in Italy was the Democrats of the Left. The PD had its origins in Sammarinese Communist Par ...

. Since then it had been part of the 2006–2008 governing coalition along with the

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and Popular Alliance until tensions between its grouping, United Left, and the latter caused the coalition to disintegrate. In the 2008 general election, United Left, the Sammarinese Communist Refoundation's political grouping, was part of the

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electoral coalition which won 25 seats out of 60 in the

gaining 45.78% of the national vote. The Sammarinese Communist Refoundation gained a few seats and a small percentage of the national vote as part of United Left which itself gained 5 seats and 8.57% of the national vote. During the legislature, the United Left was restructured from an alliance to a single party, absorbing RCS.

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History

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