Marco Pannella was well known in his country for his nonviolence and civil rights' campaigns, like the right to divorce, the right to abortion, the legalization of cannabis and the abolition of nuclear power.
17 Facts About Marco Pannella
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Marco Pannella was the historic leader of the Radical Party, the first political organization of Italian Radicals in the post-World War II period, founded in 1955.
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Marco Pannella is considered to have been a left-libertarian and liberal socialist.
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Marco Pannella attended the classical lyceum Julius Caesar in Rome.
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In 1955 Marco Pannella graduated with a degree in law from the University of Urbino.
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At 20 years old, Marco Pannella became a national representative at the university level for the Italian Liberal Party, member of the student association Unione Goliardica Italiana and at 23 he was President of the Unione Nazionale degli Studenti,.
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Marco Pannella has been at the forefront of the promotion of important reforms regarding narcotics and faced incarceration on various occasions for his civil disobediences.
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Marco Pannella played a prominent role in the movement that led to the legalization of abortion in Italy in 1978.
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Marco Pannella promoted actions to grant electoral rights for Italians aged 18.
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Marco Pannella was one of the first promoters and founders of the Green and ecologist political movements in Europe.
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Marco Pannella was elected to the European Parliament in 1979.
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Marco Pannella sat in the Technical Group of Independents which was a technical alliance of left wing MEPs who were not allied with either the Soviet influenced Communist parties or the mainstream Social Democratic parties.
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Marco Pannella served as chair of the group along with the hardline Irish Republican Neil Blaney and Danish left-wing Eurosceptic Jens-Peter Bonde.
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Marco Pannella was elected Secretary of the Radical Party in November 1981 and remained in office until November 1983.
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Marco Pannella was honorary President of the Party of the Rom in the Czech Republic and he was honorary member of the Socialist Slovene Youth.
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Marco Pannella had been living for several decades with his girlfriend Mirella Parachini.
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Marco Pannella died on 19 May 2016 of cancer, after agreeing to be sedated.