Flavio Orlandi (12 April 1921 – 8 January 2009) was a

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Italian politician who served at the

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. He was a member of the

Italian Democratic Socialist Party The Italian Democratic Socialist Party (, PSDI), also known as Italian Social Democratic Party, was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The longest serving partner in government for Christian Democracy, the PSDI was an important for ...

(PSDI) and served as its secretary between 1972 and 1975.

Biography

Orlandi was born in

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on 12 April 1921. He worked as the political director of the socialist newspaper ''

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'' from 1966 to 1969, together with

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. Orlandi joined the PSDI and was its secretary from June 1972 to June 1975. He was replaced by

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in the post. In the period between 1979 and 1984 Orlandi was a member of the European Parliament, being part of the socialist group representing the PSDI. Orlandi died in Rome on 8 January 2009.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Orlandi, Flavio 20th-century Italian journalists 1921 births 2009 deaths Italian Democratic Socialists MEPs MEPs for Italy 1979–1984 People from Viterbo