Armando Cossutta

Armando Cossutta (born 2 September 1926 in Milan ) is an Italian communist politician.

Political action

In the former Partito Comunista Italiano ( PCI) was Cossutta, who maintained close contacts with the leadership of the CPSU, at the top of the " pro-Moscow " tradition wing. Against the euro communist course of the former PCI -General Enrico Berlinguer was opposed Cossutta from the mid- 1970s, mainly because he kept his growing criticism of the Soviet Union is wrong and harmful; Today he judges whose devotion to democracy, however, positive. On the in February 1991 accomplished by the PCI at its last congress conversion to the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS ), as of 1998 the Democrats of Sinistra (DS ), the internal party opposition responded with the creation of the Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC), the one has experienced surprisingly strong influx of nearly 100,000 members. Chairman was Armando Cossutta.

1997/98 came Cossutta however, in conflict with the standing as national secretary beside him at the head of the PRC Bertinotti, which was a continuation of the parliamentary tolerance of the center-left government led by Romano Prodi because of their neo-liberal tendency to be unsustainable, while the Cossutta alliance of the Olive coalition still the lesser evil thought, that would have to be further supported. This Cossutta found the support of most of PRC- parliamentarians, but could bring only a part of his historic followers to his side at the base and in the apparatus. After his electoral defeat in the National Political Committee of the PRC in November 1998, he left the party and founded the Partito dei Comunisti Italiani ( PdCl ), which estimated that more than 20,000 PRC members joined ( about one fifth ). The PdCl came with his deputies directly with the Government of Ulivo.

• PCI Member
• Italian
• Born in 1926
• Man