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| General Secretary | Mario Capanna |
| Founded | 1975 (as coalition) 13 April 1978 (as party) |
| Dissolved | 9 June 1991 |
| Split from | Italian Communist Party |
| Merged into | Communist Refoundation Party |
| Newspaper | Quotidiano dei lavoratori |
| Membership | max: 10,310 (1988) min: 2,500 (1979) |
| Ideology | Communism Trotskyism Eco-socialism Pacifism |
| Political position | Far-left |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Red |
| Website | |
| www.democraziaproletaria.it | |
Proletarian Democracy (Democrazia Proletaria, DP) was a political party in Italy.
History
1970s
DP was founded in 1975 as a joint electoral front of the Proletarian Unity Party (PdUP), Workers Vanguard (AO) and the "Workers Movement for Socialism" (MLS). At the local level, smaller groups joined, such as the "Marxist-Leninist Communist Organization", "Revolutionary Communist Groups - IV International" and the "League of the Communists".
DP took part in the 1976 elections, winning 556,022 votes (1.51%) and 6 seats in the election to the Chamber of Deputies. On April 13, 1978, DP was transformed into a political party. The move to make DP into a real political party was pushed through by the minority wing of PdUP, led by journalist Vittorio Foa and Silvano Miniati; the majority of AO, led by Massimo Gorla and Luigi Vinci; and the League of the Communists, led by Romano Luporini.
The main figure of DP was the charismatic Mario Capanna, a former student leader associated with the 1968 new left movement.
The strongholds of DP were the industrial cities of Northern Italy, which had strong leftist traditions. DP was opposed to the so-called 'historic compromise' between the Italian Communist Party and the Christian Democrats.
During the 1978 electoral campaign, Peppino Impastato, a leading DP militant from Sicily, was murdered by the mafia.
In the 1979 elections for the European Parliament, DP won 1 seat.
1980s
In the Italian general election, 1983 DP won 542,039 votes (1.47%) and 7 seats in the election to the Chamber of Deputies. In the Italian general election, 1987 DP won 642,161 votes (1.66%) and 8 seats in the election to the Chamber of Deputies. In the same year DP won 493,667 votes (1.52%) and one seat in the election to the Senate.
In 1987 Capanna stepped down, and Giovanni Russo Spena became the secretary of DP. Two years later, the DP suffered a split, as a section led by Capanna launched their own list on ahead of the elections to the European Parliament, called Rainbow Greens.
1990s
On June 9, 1991 the congress of DP in Riccione decided to merge the party into the Communist Refoundation Movement, which became the Communist Refoundation Party.
Election results
Italian Parliament
| Chamber of Deputies | |||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 557,025 (#7) | 1.5 | 6 / 630 | ||
| 1979 | did not run | – | 0 / 630 | ||
| 1983 | 542,039 (#9) | 1.5 | 7 / 630 |  7 |
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| 1987 | 641,901 (#11) | 1.7 | 8 / 630 | 1 |
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| Senate of the Republic | |||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 78,170 (#11) | 0.3 | 0 / 315 | ||
| 1979 | did not run | – | 0 / 315 | ||
| 1983 | 327,750 (#10) | 1.1 | 0 / 315 | ||
| 1987 | 493,667 (#11) | 1.5 | 1 / 315 | 1 |
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European Parliament
| European Parliament | ||||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 252,342 (#10) | 0.7 | 1 / 81 | |||
| 1984 | 506,753 (#8) | 1.4 | 1 / 81 | |||
| 1989 | 449,639 (#10) | 1.3 | 1 / 81 | |||
References
- http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/democrazia-proletaria_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29/
- Gli ultimi Mohicani. Una storia di Democrazia Proletaria, Matteo Pucciarelli, 2011
- http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/democrazia-proletaria_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29/
- http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/democrazia-proletaria_%28Dizionario-di-Storia%29/
