Fabio Mussi

Fabio Mussi ( born January 22, 1948 in Piombino, Livorno ) is an Italian politician of the Sinistra Democrática (SD ), which he cites as Coordinatore politico ( Political Coordinator ). From 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008, he officiated in the second Prodi cabinet as university and research ministers.

Political career

As the son of a working class family Mussi joined the Partito Comunista 1965 in Italiano ( PCI), for which he was initially employed in the higher education policy. From 1967 to 1970 he studied humanities at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, where he met Massimo D' Alema. In 1972 he completed his studies in philosophy at the University of Pisa with a dissertation on Theodor W. Adorno and the Frankfurt School.

1979 Mussi was elected to the Central Committee of his party, as he was able to continue his journalistic career with the communist weekly Rinascita the same time, where he was given the responsibility for cultural sites as well as for the Press and Propaganda Department in the same year and rose to become deputy editor. From 1980 to 1984 he was Regional Secretary of the PCI in Calabria and moved then to the national party leadership. From 1986 to 1988 he also worked as one of the senior editors ( condirettori ) the daily newspaper L' Unità. As part of the conversion process his party to Democratic Party of the Sinistra in 1991 and the Democrats of the Sinistra (DS ) 1998 Mussi became an important role model as the Correntone (Eng. " high flow " ) referred to the party's left wing.

He was first in his Tuscan constituency Pisa 1992 - elected Massa-Carrara in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the Vice President, he was from 2001 to 2006 - Livorno - Lucca. After the electoral victory of his party in the center-left coalition of Romano Prodi was appointed in May 2006 to research ministers in his government. On 29 May 2006 he was elected to the municipal council of Rio Marina ( Elba Island).

At the Fourth Congress of the DS ( 19 to 21 April 2007) Mussi running against Piero Fassino to the party presidency, but was defeated with only 15.04% of the votes cast. He spoke out against the majority of his party decided intention to merge with other forces of the center-left camp L' Unione the Partito Democratico (PD). On 5 May 2007, he joined Therefore, as announced, from the party and founded with like-minded people, the Sinistra Democratica as secular - socialist force at the left edge of the PD.