Marco Rizzo
Honorary President of the Communist Party
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 January 2023
Preceded by	Office established
General Secretary of the Communist Party
In office 3 July 2009 – 21 January 2023
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Alberto Lombardo
Member of the European Parliament
In office 20 July 2004 – 13 July 2009
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 15 April 1994 – 19 July 2004
Personal details
Born	(1959-10-12) 12 October 1959 (age 64) Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Political party	Italian Communist Party (1981–1991) Communist Refoundation Party (1991–1998) Party of Italian Communists (1998–2009) Communist Party (since 2009)
Profession	Politician

Marco Rizzo (born 12 October 1959 in Turin) is an Italian politician, who served as leader of the Communist Party (PC) from 2009 to 2023, and as leader of Sovereign and Popular Italy in 2022.

Biography

A graduate in political science in 1985, he was a lecturer in vocational guidance (1985–1994).

From 1986 to 1991, he was a member of the Turin Province party executive of the Italian Communist Party (PCI), and joined the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in 1991, serving as its representative to the Council of the Turin Province until 1995. Between 1994 and 2004, he served in the Chamber of Deputies of Italy. In 1995–1998, he was coordinator of the National Secretariat of the PRC, then left to become a founding member and Italian Parliament group-leader of the Party of Italian Communists (until 2004).

In July 2009, after his expulsion from the Party of Italian Communists (having supported the IdV's candidate Gianni Vattimo in the 2009 European election), he founded a new party called Communists – Popular Left (then renamed Communist Party).^[1][2] Marco Rizzo was a Member of the European Parliament for the North-West with the Party of Italian Communists, Member of the Bureau of the European United Left – Nordic Green Left and vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Works

• Rizzo, Marco (2007). Perché ancora comunisti : le ragioni di una scelta (in Italian). Milano: Baldini Castoldi Dalai. ISBN 978-88-6073-329-0.
• Rizzo, Marco (2012). Il golpe europeo : i comunisti contro l'Unione (in Italian). Milano: Baldini & Castoldi. ISBN 978-8867620876.
• Rizzo, Marco (2017). URSS. A 100 anni dalla Rivoluzione Sovietica, i perché della caduta (in Italian). Male Edizioni. ISBN 978-88-85439-46-7.