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Famiano Crucianelli (born 1 January 1948 in
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) is an Italian politician and
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Biography

A graduated in medicine and a surgeon, Crucianelli was one of the founders of ''
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'', the eponymous newspaper of the political group previously expelled from the
Italian Communist Party The Italian Communist Party (, PCI) was a communist and democratic socialist political party in Italy. It was established in Livorno as the Communist Party of Italy (, PCd'I) on 21 January 1921, when it seceded from the Italian Socialist Part ...
(PCI). With the Manifesto he participated in the creation of the Proletarian Unity Party for Communism (PdUP), for which he was elected deputy in 1979, taking over from a resigner. He was then elected in 1983 on a PCI-PdUP joint list. He returned to the Chamber of Deputies with the
Communist Refoundation Party The Communist Refoundation Party (, PRC) is a Communism, communist List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy that emerged from a split of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1991. The party's secretary is Maurizio Acerbo, who r ...
in 1992 and 1994. In March 1995 he voted the confidence to the Dini Cabinet, along with 14 other PRC deputies who had not accepted the directives imposed by the party. These rebel deputies left the PRC and founded the
Movement of Unitarian Communists The Movement of Unitarian Communists (, MCU), or simply Unitarian Communists (), was a communist political party in Italy. History The party was founded in June 1995 as a split from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) by Communist MPs who ...
, of which Crucianelli was leader. The movement presented itself in the 1996 general elections into the PDS list and Crucianelli was re-elected deputy. In 1998 Crucianelli and the Unitarian Communists joined the
Democrats of the Left The Democrats of the Left (, DS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. Positioned on the centre-left, the DS, successor of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) and the Italian Communist Party, was formed in 1998 upon the merger ...
and in 2001 was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies with this party. From 18 May 2006 to 8 May 2008 he served in the
second Prodi government The second Prodi government was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008, a total of 722 days, or 1 year, 11 months and 21 days. The 59th cabinet of the Italian Republic, it was the only cabinet of the XV Legislatur ...
as undersecretary for foreign affairs. In 2007 he joined the Democratic Left, which he later abandoned in 2008 to join the Democratic Party.


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