Manuela Palermi (born 26 November 1942 in Rome) is an

Italian politician The politics of Italy are conducted through a parliamentary republic with a multi-party system. Italy has been a democratic republic since 2 June 1946, when the monarchy was abolished by popular referendum and a constituent assembly, formed by ...

and journalist.

Biography

After the dissolution of 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) in 1991, Palermi joined 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 ...

(PRC) and briefly edited the party's newspaper ''Liberazione''. In 1998 she joined the

Party of Italian Communists The Party of Italian Communists (, PdCI) was a communist party in Italy established in October 1998 by splinters from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC). The split was led by Armando Cossutta, founder and early leader of the PRC, who oppos ...

(PdCI), also becoming the editor of the newspaper ''La Rinascita della sinistra''. In the

2006 Italian general election The 2006 Italian general election was held on 9 and 10 April 2006. Romano Prodi, leader of the centre-left coalition The Union, narrowly defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the centre-right coalition House of Freed ...

she was elected to the Senate of the Republic on the

Together with the Union Together with the Union () was an electoral alliance in Italy that contested seats in the senate for the 2006 general election. The alliance consisted of: *Federation of the Greens () *Party of Italian Communists The Party of Italian Communi ...

list, while in the

2008 Italian general election A snap election was held in Italy on 13–14 April 2008. The election came after President of Italy, President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved the Italian Parliament on 6 February 2008, following the 2008 Italian political crisis, defeat of the gov ...

she was a candidate for

The Left – The Rainbow The Left – The Rainbow (, SA), frequently referred as Rainbow Left (), was a left-wing federation of parties in Italy that participated in the 2008 general election. History The federation was officially launched on 8–9 December 2007 with t ...

, but the list did not exceed the threshold and she wasn't re-elected. In the

2013 Italian general election General elections were held in Italy on 24 and 25 February 2013 to determine the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senate of the Republic for ...

she stood for election to the Chamber of Deputies with

Civil Revolution Civil Revolution (, RC) was a left-wing coalition of political parties in Italy. The coalition was headed by Antonio Ingroia, a former anti-mafia prosecutor of Palermo from 1992 to 2012 and then director of a UN investigation into illegal drug ...

, but this list didn't exceed the threshold and she wasn't elected. In 2013 she became the President of the PdCI's Central Committee.PDCI: ELETTA LA NUOVA SEGRETERIA NAZIONALE
/ref> She remained in office even in 2016, after the transformation of the PdCI into the new

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palermi, Manuela 1942 births Living people 21st-century Italian politicians Communist Refoundation Party politicians Party of Italian Communists politicians Politicians from Rome