Radical Party (Italy)
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The Radical Party (Partito Radicale) was an Italian political party.
For decades it has been a bastion of liberalism and radicalism in Italy. Since 1955 the party changed its name numerous times and in 1989 it was transformed into the Transnational Radical Party. One of the current incarnations of the party is called Italian Radicals, after that for all the 90s Radicals presented electoral lists for Italian general elections, without having a structured party.
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[edit] History
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The Radical Party was founded in 1955 by the progressive wing of the Italian Liberal Party, including Bruno Villabruna, Mario Pannunzio, Ernesto Rossi, Leo Valiani, Guido Calogero, Giovanni Ferrara, Paolo Ungari, Eugenio Scalfari, Marco Pannella.
After a temporary disbandment, the party was re-founded by Marco Pannella and Gianfranco Spadaccia in 1963 and came to political success in 1976, when Radicals entered in Parliament with 4 deputies: Marco Pannella, Emma Bonino, Adele Faccio and Mauro Mellini. In 1979 the party scored 3.5% and elected 18 deputies and 2 senators, its best result ever.
In 1989 the party was transformed into the Transnational Radical Party. Radicals continued to participate to Italian political life through the Rainbow Greens, the Pannella List and the Bonino List (see Italian Radicals (disambiguation)). In 2001 Radicals re-organized themselves in the Italian Radicals.
[edit] Ideology
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It was the Radical Party that first voiced the transformations of Italian society towards more liberal behaviours.
Its first victorious campaign was the creation, already in the mid ‘60s, of the Italian League for Divorce which was the first to succeed in marshalling together all the non-religious political forces into a unified political line-up thus getting the law on divorce approved. During the ‘70s, the Radical Party succeeded in starting up a vast movement in favour of civil rights by setting up the Women’s Liberation Movement (Movimento di liberazione della donna), by supporting the activities of the Italian Centre for Sterilization and Abortion (Centro italiano sterilizzazioni e aborti), by giving its support to Fuori, the first Italian gay movement, and by promoting the popular referendum to legalize abortion.[citation needed]
[edit] Leadership
[edit] Secretaries
- Mario Pannunzio (1956–1959)
- Leopoldo Piccardi (1959–1962)
- Bruno Villabruna (1962–1963)
- Marco Pannella (1963–1967)
- Gianfranco Spadaccia (1967–1968)
- Mauro Mellini (1968–1969)
- Angiolo Bandinelli (1969–1970)
- Roberto Cicciomessere (1970-1971)
- Angiolo Bandinelli (1971–1973)
- Giulio Ercolessi (1973–1974)
- Gianfranco Spadaccia (1974–1976)
- Adelaide Aglietta (1976–1978)
- Jean Fabre (1978–1979)
- Giuseppe Rippa (1979–1980)
- Francesco Rutelli (1980–1981)
- Marco Pannella (1981–1983)
- Roberto Cicciomessere (1983–1984)
- Giovanni Negri (1984–1988)
- Sergio Stanzani (1988–1989)
[edit] Presidents
- Elio Vittorini (1962–1964)
- Gianfranco Spadaccia (1964–1967)
- Marco Pannella (1967–1975)
- Adele Faccio (1975–1976)
- Marco Pannella (1976–1981)
- Enzo Tortora (1981–1986)
- Marco Pannella (1986–1989)
[edit] External links
- The Radical Party (1955–1977)
- General chronology of the Radical Party, 1955–1989
- The Radical Party in the Politics of Italy: 1962–1989
- Chronology of the history of the Radical Party and of the Radical Movements (1955–1998)
