Party of Italian Communists

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Party of Italian Communists Partito dei Comunisti Italiani
Italian National Party
Leader	Oliviero Diliberto

Founded	1998
Headquarters	Piazza Augusto Imperatore, 32 00186 Rome, Italy
Coalition	The Union
Political ideology	Communism, Eurocommunism
Official newspaper	La Rinascita della sinistra
Website	www.comunisti-italiani.it
See also	Politics of Italy Political parties in Italy Elections in Italy

The Party of Italian Communists (Italian: Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, also translated into English as 'Italian Communists' Party') is a political party in Italy. It was founded in 1998 as a split from the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) by Armando Cossutta, the original leader of the PRC. The current party leader is Oliviero Diliberto.

The main reason for the split was the unwillingness of a part of the Communist Refoundation Party to participate in the operation that toppled the government of Romano Prodi. Fausto Bertinotti had kept the party in alliance with the Olive Tree coalition for two years, but was leaving because of disagreement over social policy. Leaving would have left the government without a majority in the lower house of the parliament. The issue was hotly debated in the party, and in the end a few votes, coming from the trotskyist faction, finally decided. Reportedly, the leader of the trotskyist faction said he had "dreamed [his whole] life about making a government fall".

Members of the Party of Italian Communists in the European Parliament still sit in the European United Left - Nordic Green Left group with their erstwhile PRC comrades.

In the 9-10 April 2006 general elections, the party was member of the winning The Union (L'Unione) and won 16 out of 630 deputies. The alliance of Greens, Communists and Consumers won 11 out of 215 senators.

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