Fabrizio Cicchitto

Fabrizio Cicchitto (born 26 October 1940) is an Italian politician, whose career has followed a trajectory from radical socialism to centre-right reformism.

Fabrizio Cicchitto
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office
30 May 2001 – 22 March 2018
In office
5 July 1976 – 11 July 1983
Member of the Senate of the Republic
In office
23 April 1992 – 14 April 1994
Personal details
Born (1940-10-26) 26 October 1940
Rome, Italy
Political partyPopular Alternative (since 2017)
Other political
affiliations		PSI (until 1994)
PSR (1994–1996)
PS (1996–1999)
FI (1999–2009)
PdL (2009–2013)
NCD (2013–2017)
SpouseManuela Cicchitto (since the 1980s)
Domestic partnerMarta Ajò (1970s)
ChildrenA daughter
Residence(s)Rome, Italy
Alma materUniversity of Rome
ProfessionPolitician, former union organizer

Biography

Fabrizio Cicchitto entered politics in the early 1960s, supporting the Riccardo Lombardi-led Marxist left-wing of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) 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 exploited the Red Brigades' activities and the Aldo Moro case to cut off relations with the PCI.

In 1981, he confessed to 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 1980s, 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 (FI), 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 (NCD) party. Since 2017 he has been a member of the moderate conservative Popular Alternative grouping, which was established following the dissolution of the NCD.

References
  1. "A Grand Master's Conspiracy". Time. 8 June 1981.

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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