Claudio Grassi (born 12 November 1955 in Reggio Emilia) is an

Italian politician The politics of Italy are conducted through a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system. Italy has been a democratic republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum and a constituent assembly was electe ...

Biography

In 1973 Grassi started working in the factory as a worker, remaining there until 1992. In these years he was a trade union delegate in the CGIL. In his city, Reggio Emilia, he was promoter of the Italy-Nicaragua Association and of the Association for Peace and was also responsible for cultural activities and vice-president of the Antonio Gramsci club. He was therefore elected municipal councilor for 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) ...

in the municipality of Bibbiano and appointed assessor for culture. In 1991 he joined the Communist Refoundation Party, of which he became regional secretary in 1993. In 1995 he was elected to the national secretariat of the party, where he remained until 2004, holding the position of national treasurer. In 1998, Grassi and other executives left the faction of the party's president,

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, opposed to his decision to vote the confidence to the

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, by joining the majority of the secretary

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with his component, called

The Ernesto The Ernesto (''L'Ernesto'') was a faction within the Communist Refoundation Party in Italy. The group emerged in February 2007 as a split from Being Communists, the faction led by Claudio Grassi, and took the name from ''L'Ernesto'', a communis ...

. In the VI party congress (2005), founded a new current Being Communists, to support its own motion as an alternative to that of the secretary of the party (Bertinotti). In 2006 Grassi was elected Senator, but he was not re-confirmed in the 2008 general election. In the 2013 general election he was candidate to the Chamber of Deputies with

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, without being elected. In 2016 he left the Communist Refoundation Party and in 2017 joined the

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, of which he was later appointed president. In 2018 he was again candidate to the Chamber of Deputies among the ranks of LeU. On 1 June 2019, after the resignation of

Nicola Fratoianni Nicola Fratoianni (born 4 October 1972) is an Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Secretary of Italian Left from 2017 to 2019 and again since 2021. Biography Fratoianni was born in Pisa to parents from Ururi, province of C ...

as secretary, Grassi was appointed regent leader of Italian Left.Sinistra italiana, Fratoianni si dimette da segretario: "Da Europee emerso tema della frammentazione nel nostro campo"
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Grassi, Claudio 1955 births Living people People from Reggio Emilia 20th-century Italian politicians 21st-century Italian politicians Italian Communist Party politicians Communist Refoundation Party politicians Italian Left politicians