biography
pronunciation:
[okayttoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1936– )
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| biography:
| Italian politician, born in Turin, Piedmont, NW Italy. He became leader of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1898, and the following year initiated a programme of change that would lead to the PCI becoming PDS or Partito Democratico della Sinistra (Democratic Party of the Left) and dropping the hammer and sickle symbol. He resigned from the leadership in 1994 and became president of the Foreign Affairs Commission in the Prodi government in 1996. |
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