Massimo D'Alema

Massimo D'Alema (born on April 20, 1949 in Rome, Italy), the son of Giuseppe D'Alema (an esteemed communist politician), is an Italian journalist and politician, a former prime minister and a former national secretary of the PDS, Partito Democratico della Sinistra.

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Massimo D'Alema - April 20 - 1949 - Rome, Italy - Giuseppe D'Alema - Journalist - Politician - Prime minister - Partito Democratico della Sinistra

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A professional politician, in the sense that politics has been his main work during all his life, he comes from the PCI, Italian Communist Party, part of which later gave origin to his current party, and in the 1990s became Head of the government, after the "Tangentopoli" (or "Bribesville") scandals, as the leader of the "Olive Tree" leftist coalition.

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Politics - Italian Communist Party - 1990s - Government - Tangentopoli - Olive Tree

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In the internal life of his party, mostly during its transition from PCI to PDS, D'Alema stressed that its Communist leanings should be softened, or even replaced by an opening toward Catholic forces, somehow leaving aside the Marxist provenance.

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He has been the director of "L'Unità", the official PCI's newspaper.

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He is now a Member of the European Parliament for Southern Italy with the Left-Wing Democrats, part of the Socialist Group and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries and its Committee on Foreign Affairs.

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Member of the European Parliament - Southern Italy - Left-Wing Democrats - Socialist Group - European Parliament - Committee on Fisheries - Committee on Foreign Affairs

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