Fabrizio Cicchitto

Fabrizio Cicchitto
Fabrizio Cicchitto
Member of Italian Chamber of Deputies
	In office; 30 May 2001 – 22 March 2018
	In office; 5 July 1976 – 11 July 1983
Member of the Senate
	In office; 23 April 1992 – 14 April 1994
Personal details
Born	26 October 1940; Rome, Lazio, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	Popular Alternative; (2017-present)
Other political; affiliations	Italian Socialist Party; (1976-1994); Reformist Socialist Party; (1994-1996); Socialist Party; (1996-1999); Forza Italia; (1999-2009); The People of Freedom; (2009-2013); New Centre-Right; (2013-2017)
Spouse(s)	Manuela Cicchitto (1980s-present)
Domestic partner	Marta Ajò (1970s)
Children	A daughter
Residence	Rome, Lazio, Italy
Alma mater	University of Rome
Profession	Politics, union organizer (ex)

Fabrizio Cicchitto (born 26 October 1940 in Rome) is an Italian politician.

Biography

Fabrizio Cicchitto entered politics during the earlier 1960s, supporting the Marxist left wing of Riccardo Lombardi in the Italian Socialist Party and then becoming secretary of the party's youth organization (Federazione Giovanile Socialista Italiana, Italian Young Socialist Federation). Cicchitto also became sympathetic to Eurocommunism and the Historic Compromise path taken by the Italian Communist Party (PCI), while being highly critical of Christian Democracy (DC) itself, as well as of the American CIA and the Italian Servizio Informazioni Difesa. According to him, DC would have taken profit from the Red Brigades' activities and the Aldo Moro case to cut off relations with the PCI.

In 1981, he confessed being a member of the masonic lodge Propaganda Due (P2).[1] Shortly after this move, Cicchitto was excluded from the Socialist Party. Readmitted toward the end of the Eighties, he followed the policies of Bettino Craxi and held minor posts throughout the Mani pulite-Tangentopoli scandals that saw the disestablishment of most Italian political parties. Cicchitto joined Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party Forza Italia, leading its social-democratic wing We Blue Reformers. He had been a Socialist member of either the Italian Chamber of Deputies or the Italian Senate for three successive terms. He is currently the vice-president of Forza Italia's group in the Chamber, and national deputy-coordinator of the party from 2003.

He has contributed to steps taken by Italy in its adoption of the European Monetary System and the Maastricht Treaty, and has taken part in debates over privatization in the country. Since 1998, Cicchitto contributes editorials to Il Giornale, and is currently a member of the editorial staff for Avanti!.

In November 2009 he founded Reformism and Freedom (REL), a "reformist" and mainly social-democratic think tank within The People of Freedom (PdL). After the split of PdL, Cicchitto joined the New Centre-Right party.

References

"A Grand Master's Conspiracy". Time Magazine. 1981-06-08.

Works

Il pensiero economico cattolico
Politiche nuove per l'industria italiana
Dall'utopia al potere
Rapporto pubblico e privato e modernizzazione dell' industria italiana
Rodolfo Morandi, il partito e la democrazia industriale
Il governo Craxi
Storia del centro-sinistra
Riflessioni sulla fine della prima repubblica e sulla sinistra di governo
De Gasperi e Togliatti, due protagonisti
La DC dopo il primo ventennio
Le scelte dei democratici
Dal centro-sinistra all'alternativa
Il grande inganno

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[1] "A Grand Master's Conspiracy". Time Magazine. 1981-06-08.