Luciana Castellina

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Alfredo Reichlin
(m. 1953;div. 1958)
Luciana Castellina
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Member of the European Parliament
In office
17 July 1979 19 July 1999
Children2
Alma mater Sapienza University of Rome
OccupationPolitician, journalist, writer

Luciana Castellina (born 9 August 1929) is an Italian journalist, writer, politician, and feminist. [1] [2]

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Biography

Castellina was born in Rome on 9 August 1929. She graduated in law from Sapienza University of Rome. In 1947, she joined the Italian Communist Party. Castellina started her career in journalism in the 1950s, working for the daily newspaper Paese Sera . She later worked for several other newspapers, including L'Unità , il manifesto , and Liberazione . Her writings focused on issues such as workers' rights, feminism, and communism. In 1974, she was co-founder of the Proletarian Unity Party for Communism. She served four terms in Italy's Chamber of Deputies and twenty years in the European Parliament. As a member of the European Parliament, she served as chair of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education and the Media and of the Committee on External Economic Relations. [3] [4] [5]

Castellina was president of Italia cinema, an agency to promote Italian films abroad, from 1998 to 2003. [3] She served as editor of Nuova Generazione, a Communist youth magazine, and of Liberazione, and also played an important role at il manifesto. [5] [2] Castellina was named an Officier in the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and a Comendadora (Commander) of the Republic of Argentina. [3] In the 2015 Italian presidential election, Left Ecology Freedom supported Castellina's name as possible successor of Giorgio Napolitano as president of Italy. She was supported for the first three ballots until the party decided to support for the fourth ballot Sergio Mattarella, who was later elected president. [6]

Personal life

Castellina has been married to Italian Communist Party leader Alfredo Reichlin. They had two children, Lucrezia and Pietro, both of them economists.

Electoral history

ElectionHouseConstituencyPartyVotesResult
1976 Chamber of Deputies Como–Sondrio–Varese DP 2,862Yes check.svgElected
1979 Chamber of Deputies Como–Sondrio–Varese PdUP 1,598Yes check.svgElected
1979 European Parliament Central Italy PdUP 14,957Yes check.svgElected
1983 Chamber of Deputies Milan–Pavia PCI 30,044Yes check.svgElected
1984 European Parliament North-East Italy PCI 89,998Yes check.svgElected
1989 European Parliament Central Italy PCI 75,826Yes check.svgElected
1992 Chamber of Deputies Perugia–Terni–Rieti PRC 3,105Yes check.svgElected
1994 European Parliament Central Italy PRC 68,127Yes check.svgElected

    Selected books

    References

    1. Bull, Anna Cento (2017). Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s. Routledge. p. 56.
    2. 1 2 Cornils, Ingo (2010). Memories of 1968: International Perspectives. Peter Lang. p. 354.
    3. 1 2 3 "Luciana Castellina" (in Spanish). Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona.
    4. "Luciana Castellina". European parliament MEPs.
    5. 1 2 Mulhern, Francis (2011). Lives on the Left: A Group Portrait. Verso Books. p. 150. ISBN   978-1844676996.
    6. "Elezione Presidente della Repubblica: sì unanime del Pd a Mattarella. Berlusconi: "Riforme non vedranno luce"". Il Fatto Quotidiano . 29 January 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2018.