Sammarinese Communist Party

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The Sammarinese Communist Party (Partito Comunista Sammarinese) was a political party in San Marino. The PCS was formed in 1941.

[edit] Organization

The youth organization of PCS was Federazione Giovanile Comunista San Marino. FGCSM was a member of World Federation of Democratic Youth.

PCS published the newspaper La Scintilla.

In the 1980s PCS was estimated to have had around 1000 members.

[edit] History

Between 1945 and 1957 a coalition of PCS and Partito Socialista Sammarinese was elected to rule San Marino, the first time a communist government was elected to power. In 1973 and in 1986 PCS entered into a coalition with Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese.

In 1990 PCS renounced communism, and changed the party name to Partito Progressista Democratico Sammarinese. PPDS later evolved into the Partito dei Democratici. In this process, a group of party members opposed to the transition to a non-communist party broke away and formed Rifondazione Comunista Sammarinese.