Marco Pannella

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Marco Pannella
President of the Transnational Radical Party
In office 1 January 1989 – 19 May 2016
Succeeded by	vacant
Member of the European Parliament
In office 17 July 1979 – 14 July 2009
Constituency	North-West Italy (1979–1989; 1994–2009) Southern Italy (1989–1994)
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 5 July 1976 – 14 April 1994
Constituency	Turin (1976–1979; 1992–1994) Naples (1979–1983) Milan (1983–1987) Palermo (1987–1992)
Personal details
Born	Giacinto Pannella (1930-05-02)2 May 1930 Teramo, Italy
Died	19 May 2016(2016-05-19) (aged 86) Rome, Italy
Political party	PLI (1945–1955) Radical Party (1955–1989) Pannella List (1992–1999) Bonino List (1999–2004) Italian Radicals (2001–2016)
Domestic partner(s)	Mirella Parachini (1974–2016; his death)
Alma mater	University of Urbino
Profession	Journalist
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Marco Pannella (born Giacinto Pannella; 2 May 1930 – 19 May 2016) was an Italian politician, journalist and activist. He was well known in his country for his nonviolence and civil rights' campaigns,^[1][2] like the right to divorce, the right to abortion, the legalization of cannabis and the abolition of nuclear power.^[3] Internationally, he supported human rights and self-determination causes, like the Tibetan independence and campaign against persecution of Christians in Vietnam.

He 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. Between 1979 and 2009, he was a Member of the European Parliament, where he sat as a full member in the Committee on Legal Affairs, in the Committee on Budgetary Control and in the Delegation for relations with Israel. He was also President of the Nonviolent Radical Party.

He is considered to have been a left-libertarian^[4] and liberal socialist.