(updated on 22 april 1992)ARGENTINA
Hector Jorge VELAZQUEZ
senator
BELGIUM
Alexandre DE PERLINGHI
elected member. First joined the Radical Party in 1983, author of a video on the history of the Radical Party. He is a collaborator of the radical representatives at the European Parliament. He participated in the last European elections on the lay federation ticket in Italy thanks to a bill proposed by the Radical representatives in Parliament which gives the right to passive electorate also to non-Italian citizens of the EEC.
Olivier DUPUIS
member by right. Total conscientious assertor-objector, he surrendered himself to the Belgian justice system in October 1985 and served an 11-month sentence in the prison of Saint Gilles. In charge of the French-speaking edition of Radical News. Organized and participated in several nonviolent demonstrations in the countries of Eastern Europe, and for such initiatives was expelled from Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Currently coordinates the transnational Radical party's activities in Rumania and Hungary and works at the radical Project "The New Party".
Michel HANCISSE
(incoming) elected member. Among the founders of the Radical party in Belgium. Chemist by profession, member of the Radical Party since 1980. Participated in the campaign against world hunger; this campaign lead to the voting of the "Loi de Survie" on the part of the Belgian Parliament in '82. Was expelled from Warsaw in '86.
Jean Luc ROBERT
(incoming) elected member. Coordinator of the antiprohibitionists at the European Parliament. Parliamentary assistant, member of the Radical Party since '83. Arrested and expelled from Poland and Czechoslovakia in '88 following the demonstrations which took place respectively in '86 and in '88. Actively involved in the antiprohibitionist campaign, organized the conventions of the Cora (Radical Anti-prohibitionist Coordination) in Brussels in '88 and '91.
BRAZIL
Anthony HENMAN
elected member. Member of the Brazilian government's federal Council on drugs. Author of a classic text on the question of coca growing in Latin America, "Mama coca", active in the campaign for the safeguard of the Amazonian forest; joined the Radical Party at the Budapest congress. Among the founders of the IAL, he is a member of its secretariat.
BULGARIA
Elena POPTODOROVA
MP - Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)
Rosen KARADIMOV
MP - Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)
Philip BOKOV
MP - Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)
Ianaki STOILOV
MP - Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP)
Rumen BIKOV
MP - Union of Bulgarian Democratic Forces (SDS)
Valentin KARABASHEV
MP - Union of Bulgarian Democratic Forces (SDS)
Ivan TOSSEV
MP - Union of Bulgarian Democratic Forces (SDS)
Sasho STOYANOV
MP - Union of Bulgarian Democratic Forces (SDS). Member of the Bulgarian organization for human rights.
Emil KAPUDALIEV
MP - Union of Bulgarian Democratic Forces (SDS).
Hristo TODOROV
MP - Union of Bulgarian Democratic Forces (SDS).
Ivan FLORESKOV
MP - Union of Bulgarian Democratic Forces (SDS).
BURKINA FASO
Basile GUISSOU
member by right. Sociologist and expert in problems related to the development of African countries. At the meeting of the Federal Council in Jerusalem in October 1988, he was elected vice secretary of the Radical Party. Actively involved in the struggle for the right to life and the life of rights in the African continent. Foreign Minister during the presidency of Sankara; following the coup d'état whereby Blaise Campaoré came into power in 1987, he was imprisoned and tortured. He was released thanks to the intervention of the Radical Party and of Marco Pannella in particular. Member of the Radical Party since when he was foreign minister of his country, he participated directly in the initiatives against world hunger and took part several times in the marches which the Radical party organized yearly at Easter.
Idani HADJARA
representative of the A.R.E.D.A. (Radical Association for the Rule of Law in Africa).
Mustapha SARR
elected member. From Ouagadougou, 35 years old, self-employed. Assistant First Secretary of the AREDA, the Radical Association for the Rule of Law in Africa, based in Ouagadougou.
CANADA
Marie-Andrée BERTRAND
elected member. Magistrate, professor at the Department of Criminology of the University of Montreal. Among the founders of the IAL (International Antiprohibitionist League), which she is President of. Leader of the Canadian women's rights movement, since the beginning of the '70s she is a councillor of the Government for drugs problems.
CUBA
GUESTS
Orlando GUITTEREZ
dissident, exile in Miami, secretary of the Directorio Revolucionario Democratico
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Vojtech WAGNER
Czechoslovak vice foreign minister, member of the ODA Obcanska Demokraticka Aliance - Democratic civic Alliance.
Federal Parliament
Peter SERENCES
federal MP for the Democratic Party of the Left (former Communist Party) of Slovakia. Born in 1947, graduate in agriculture, former manager of a public farm.
Istvan BATTA
federal MP for the"Coexistence" movement, belongs to the Hungarian minority of Czechoslovakia. Born in 1954, engineer, graduate in agriculture. Currently a pensioner for invalidity following a serious accident.
Czech national parliament
Pavel BALCAREK
Czech national MP, HSD-SMS list (for the democratic independence of Moravia-Silesia).
Dezidér BALOG
CNR MP. MP for the ROI (Romska Obcanska Iniciativa - Czechoslovak political party) at the Czech National Parliament (Ceska Narodni Rada), member of the National Economic Commission. Student.
Ondrej GINA
MP for the ROI (Romska Obcanska Iniciativa - Czechoslovak political party) at the Czech National Parliament (Ceska Narodni Rada), member of the Commission for Regions and Nationalities. Among the founding members of the ROI. Metal worker. Autodidact. In 1986 he went on a 15-day hunger strike to assert the human and civil rights of the Rom people; in constant conflict with the police during the past regime. Composer.
Zdenek GUZI
MP for the ROI (Romska Obcanska Iniciativa - Czechoslovak political party) at the Czech National Parliament (Ceska Narodni Rada), member of the Commission for Health and social problems.
Jaromir KAPUSTA
Czech national MP, HSD-SMS list (for the democratic independence of Moravia-Silesia).
Ladislav KRCMA
MP at the Czech National Parliament. Chemical engineer. Elected on the HSD-SMS ticket (Movement for democratic independence - society for Moravia and Silesia).
Miroslav WOLF
MP - Civic Democratic Party (ODS), party which aims to obtain the relative majority at the upcoming elections in June. Born in Southern Moravia in 1954, has a degree in Education.
Vladimir ZEMAN
Czech national MP - HSD-SMS ticket (for the democratic independence of Moravia-Silesia).
IVORY COAST
Gaoussou OUATTARA
elected member. Currently resident in Rome. Joined the Radical Party following the campaign against world hunger. A member of the federal Council since 1988.
Francis WODIE
MP. Secretary-General of the Party of Workers of the Ivory Coast (PTI).
FRANCE
André GATTOLIN
(incoming elected member). Graduate in political sciences, director of an opinion poll institute. Author of a book on the French Revolution and of several articles on contemporary society.
Maude MARIN
(incoming) elected member. Jurist, was expelled from the "Barreau de Paris". Leader of the movement of French transsexuals, author of three best-sellers on the situation of socially alienated people and in particular on the situation of prostitutes and convicts.
Jean-Pierre ROCHE
elected member. Born in Bordeaux, first joined the Radical party in 1986.
ISRAEL
Shulamit ALONI
founder and leader of the Ratz, the Israeli party for civil rights, member of the Knesset. First joined the Radical Party in 1986.
Orna CSILLAG
elected member. Activist of the Ratz, the Israeli movement for civil rights, university researcher. Joined the Radical Party in 1986 and was also a member of the previous Federal Council.
NIGERIA
Mike AJAY
elected member. Of Nigerian origin, lives in Turin where he works as a nurse. In 1987, running on the radical ticket, he was the first coloured candidate in the history of the Italian Republic. Federal councillor since 1988, year in which he was elected with the maximum of votes, second only to Marco Pannella.
THE NETHERLANDS
Wijnand SENGERS
elected member. Psychiatrist, member of the Drug Policy Foundation's consultive committee, founder of the "European Movement for the Normalization of Drug Policy". Member of the IAL (International Antiprohibitionist League).
PERU
Wilfredo ALVAREZ VALER
national MP from Lima - Patriotic Movement of National Unity
POLAND
Zygmunt LENIK
MP, elected in Krakow for the Confederation for Independent Poland (a conservative party which obtained 51 seats in the Diet in September 1991)
Anna NIEDZWIECKA
elected member. Former member of the "Wolnosc i Pokoi" ("Freedom and Peace") movement, active in the battles for human rights. One of the first members of the Radical Party in Poland.
Janusz REWINSKI
MP, Party of Economic Reforms (PPG)
UNITED KINGDOM of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Lord NORTHAMPTON
member of the House of Lords - executive
PORTUGAL
Luis MENDAO
member by right. Former member of the Radical Party's secretariat. Lives and works in Lisbon. He joined the party in 1986 and has since been the most active radical exponent in Portugal.
Jorge PEGADO LIZ
member by right. Lawyer, former member of the European Parliament. Currently an executive of the United Nations in Geneva.
RUMANIA
Ionel ARDELEAN
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Mariana BEZDADEA
MP - Environmentalist Movement of Rumania
Ioan BIVOLARU
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Erno BORBELY
MP - Democratic Union of the Hungarians of Rumania, former convict (almost five years from '82 to '87) for having participated in the creation of an organization for the safeguard of the rights of man and minorities. Elected in Mircurea Ciuc.
Iuliu BRENDUS
MP - Hungarian Democratic Union
Ioan CATARIG
MP - National Salvation Front - FSN
Daniela CRASNARU
MP - independent
Vasile DIACON
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN), member of the foreign affairs committee, member of the parliamentary group for the friendship with Italy. Former head of the FSN for Moldavia (Rumanian). Elected in Iasi, the capital of Moldavia.
Octavian DOGARIU
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Iorica EDELHAUSER
MP - National Liberal Party (PLNR)
Elena ENE
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Tatiana GRIGORESCU
MP - Environmentalist Party (PE)
Vasile HOBJILA
MP - Social Democratic Party
Ioan IETCU
MP - Environmentalist Movement
Corina ION-IOSIF
MP - Environmentalist Party
Constantin IVANOVICI
MP - National Salvation Front. Secretary of the Defence Committee
Carol Matei IVANCIOV
MP - Bulgarian Union of Banat (UBDB)
Vasile LASCU
MP - Traditional Social Democratic Party
Anton LINTMAIER
engineer, member of the Parliament of Rumania, representative of the Polish minority in Rumania. Lives in Ploiesti (Southern Rumania)
Gheorghita LUPAU
MP - 'Great Rumania' Party
Tiberi MACOVEI
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Gheorghe MARCU
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Anton NICOLAU
physician, member of the Parliament of Rumania, representative of the Greek minority in Rumania. Lives in Ploiesti (Southern Rumania).
Vasile NISTOR
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Petre PARTAL
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Ferenc PECSI
MP - Hungarian Democratic Union
Valeriu PESCARU
MP - Democratic Agrarian Party (PDA) of Rumania
Dumitru POP
MP - Rumanian National Union
Gheorghe RADUCANU
economist, member of the Rumanian Parliament, president of the Democratic Party of the Rom people of Rumania
Gheorghe ROMAN
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Rodica SERBANESCU
MP - National Liberal Party (PLNR)
Adrian SILISTRARU
MP - Traditional Social Democratic Party
Stefan TCACIUC
MP - representative of the Ukrainian minority, writer.
Dumitru TEACI
MP - Democratic Agrarian Party (PDA) of Rumania
Ioan TURLACU
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Ion URSACHE
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Adriean VIDEANU
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN), member of the Youth and Sports committee
Alexandru VILAIA
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Ioan Adrian VILAU
MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Mihai VOICU
Member by right. MP - National Salvation Front (FSN)
Laszlo ZSIGMOND
MP - Democratic Union of the Hungarians of Rumania, physicist, Elected in Sfintu Gheorghe.
SPAIN
Joaquin ARCE MATEOS
(incoming) elected member. Member of the radical Party since 1987, a graduate in political and economic sciences. Former exponent of the anti-Francoist Basque movement.
Santiago CASTILLO
member by right. Professor of philosophy at the University of Madrid. Former member of the Radical party's secretariat, member of the Radical Party since 1979.
Raul MORODO LEONCIO
member of the European Parliament, professor of Law at the University of Madrid. Lawyer, member of the national committee of the CDS, former exponent of the anti-Francoist movement. Former ambassador of Spain to the UNESCO.
HUNGARY
Anne LOSONCZI
elected member, Belgian naturalized. Professor of Ethnology at the Open University of Brussels and at the University of Paris-Nanterre. Was a direct witness of the tragedy of Budapest in 1956, when her father Geza was a minister of the Government of Imre Nagy. The entire family was deported in Rumania, and her father, who was to be hung together with Nagy and four more ministers of his cabinet, died before his execution as a result of a hunger strike. Joined the Radical Party in October 1988.
Laszlo RAJK
MP - Alliance of Free Democrats
REPUBLICS OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
ARMENIA
Samvel SHAGINJAN
MP - Supreme Soviet of Armenia
AZERBAIJAN
Mahmed ABASSOV
MP - Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan - PCUS
Oktaj AHMEDOV
former MP and member of the commission on welfare and youth problems of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. (Azerbaijan). Former member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.
Etibar MAMEDOV
former MP and member of the Commission on welfare and youth problems of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. (Azerbaijan). Former member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.
BELORUSSIA
Evgenij CUMAROV
MP, secretary of the Commission for Culture and Education of the Supreme Soviet of Belorussia. Born in 1956, president of the Minsk federation of the Social Democratic Party of Belorussia.
GEORGIA
Mamuka TSAGARELI
vice minister for Information and Radio and TV Services in the government coalition headed by Shevardnaze. Member of the Congress of Georgia. Among the leaders of the democratic Party for Independence. Journalist.
KAZAKHSTAN
Ajtbaj KONYSBAEV
MP and vice president of the economics, budget and finance commission of the Supreme Soviet of Kazakhstan. Jurist.
KIRGHIZIA
Tynygbek TABYLDNEV
MP - Supreme Soviet of Kirghizia, independent.
Abjibilla MOJDUNOV
MP - Supreme Soviet of Kirghizia; engineer, university professor
UKRAINE
Vladimir MOSKOVSKA
MP - Supreme Soviet of the Ukraine, vice president of the Ukrainian United Social Democratic Party
Jurij ZBITNEV
MP - Supreme Soviet of the Ukraine. Physician. President of the Social Democratic Party of the Ukraine.
RUSSIA
Anatolij ALEKSEEV
member of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic, president of the committee of control on the death and wounding of soldiers in peacetime, established in November 1990; president of the movement of soldiers' parents and of the committee for the problems of the military.
Tatjana KORIJAGINA
MP - Supreme Soviet of the Russian republic, economist, member of the group that produced the project for the first economic reform in the U.S.S.R. in 1989. One of the chief leaders of the democratic movement, among the founders of "Democratic Russia"
Vladimir MAHANOV
member of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic, "Smena" centre group; member of the Committee for social protection. Born in 1960, miner, between 1989 and 1900 president of the strike committee of the miners of Prokopjevsk.
MOSSOVIET
Vladimir GRISHKIN
MP, president of the legislative commission of the Mossoviet, liberal group; jurist.
Lev IVANOV
MP, president of the commission on housing and development of the Mossoviet. Independent.
Alexandr KALININ
historian. Member of the Mossoviet, member of the liberal group. Among the proposers of the bill on civil service and conscientious objection promoted by the Radical Party. Among the organizers of the democratic and nonviolent revolt against the coup d'état of 19/22 August 1991 in Moscow.
Alexandr KOSHEVAROV
MP - Mossoviet, liberal group.
Semen MALENKOV
MP - Mossoviet
Sergej SHORNIKOV
MP, president of the Commission of control on properties of the Mossoviet. Born in 1946, worked in the Ministry of Industry, was proposed as candidate by the collective of one of the ministry's enterprises.
Anatoly ZHELUDKOV
professor, MP, Mossoviet, Green Party
SOVIET OF ST. PETERSBURG
Alexander BORIAK
MP, head of the department for foreign economic relations of the Soviet of St. Petersburg. Born in 1950, he specialized in problems of the United States; he has worked as teacher and director in secondary schools and as university professor. Elected at the Soviet of the city on the proposal of the schools, he has never been a member of other political parties.
Vladimir EROSCHENKOV
member of the Soviet of St. Petersburg and of the transport committee of the Soviet of St. Petersburg, member of the "Popular Front" group. Elected in 1990, proposed by the collective of the civic bus corporation where he works. Born in 1945, engineer.
Gleb LEBEDEV
member of the Soviet of St. Petersburg and president of the Education Committee of the Soviet of St. Petersburg, member of Democratic Russia. Born in 1943, graduated in Historical Sciences and is professor at the University of St. Petersburg. Member of the PCUS from 1975 to 1991, was expelled following the publication of a bill, on the initiative of the communists, advocating a trail against the party. Member of the "Memorial" group.
Vladimir LOBACH
member of the Soviet of St. Petersburg, member of the transport committee of the Soviet of St. Petersburg, member of the "Popular Front" group. Born in 1948, driver, regional coordinator of the Popular Front.
Robert LOPAREV
MP - Soviet of St. Petersburg
Julij RYBAKOV
MP and president of the Commission on human rights of the Soviet of St. Petersburg - member of the Russian Libertarian Democratic Party. Born in 1946, former dissident and prisoner for six years for Anti-Soviet activities, he is president of St. Petersburg group of the International Society for Human Rights. Was proposed as candidate in the elections by the "Free Russia" society, by the collective for the study of documentary films and by the democratic platform of the Popular Front.
Alexander TRUBACHEV
MP - Soviet of St. Petersburg, independent. Born in 1954, electromechanical engineer, awarded by the Komsomol for his researches, he is a member of the democratic movement since 1986.
Dimitri ZAPOLSKIJ
MP - Soviet of St. Petersburg, Democratic Russia. Journalist, publisher of the newspaper "Perekriostok" of St. Petersburg.
Nikolaj ZHURAVSKIJ
MP and president of the commission on housing policies of the Soviet of St. Petersburg. Born in 1953, studied at the Leningrad Institute of Education. Participated in the activity of informal movements and was elected at the Petrosoviet by the Memorial movement and by the block of democratic parties.
Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. (dissolved)
Jurij GOLIK
former MP and member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., former member of the PCUS; jurist, professor at the University of Kemerovo, Siberia.
Nikolay ENGVER
former member of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. (Russia). War invalid. Independent.
GUESTS
Nikolaij ARZHANNIKOV
member and president of the Commission for human rights of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Republic
BALTIC STATES
ESTONIA
Nikolaij AKSININ
MP - Supreme Soviet of Estonia. Former general of the Red Army. Former member of the PCUS.
Lembit ANNUS
MP - Supreme Soviet of Estonia. President of the Committee for human rights. Former first secretary of the Communist Party of Estonia. Born in 1941, graduate in historical sciences, began his activity in 1963 in the Komsomol.
Genik ISRAELIAN
MP - Supreme Soviet of Estonia. Born in 1938, journalist, political expert, author of scientific works on the history of journalism. Began his activity in 1960 in the Komsomol; elected in 1980 and in 1990 in the Soviet of Tallinn, member of the Supreme Soviet of Estonia since 1990, member of the commission on the press. Member of the socialist-oriented "Cooperation and Equality" group.
Vladimir LEBEDEV
MP and member of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of Estonia. Member of the united Council of the labour collectives of Estonia; former member of the PCUS. Mathematician.
Pavel PANFILOV
MP - Supreme Soviet of Estonia, former member of the PCUS.
Aleksieij ZYBIN
MP - Supreme Soviet of Estonia. Born in 1933, worked for thirty years in institutes of scientific research. Began his political activity in 1988, in 1990 became member of the Supreme Soviet of Estonia, where he is part of the commission for relations among nationalities. Member of the socialist-oriented "Cooperation and Equality" group.
LATVIA
Aleksieij ZOTOV
MP - Supreme Soviet of Latvia, independent. Member of the Commission for human rights and national issues. Orthodox priest (confession of the "Old Believers"), parson of St. Michael's church in Riga.
LITHUANIA
Algirdas KUMZA
MP - Parliament of Lithuania
Born in 1956, graduated in Law at the University of Vilnius. Member of the Lithuanian Liberal Party. Elected member of Parliament in February 1990.
REPUBLICS OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
BOSNIA
Senad SAHIMPASIC
MP, Party of Democratic Action
Izet MUHAMEDAGIC
MP, Party of Democratic Action (SDA), lawyer from Bosanski Novi
CROATIA
Franjo GREGURIC
president of the Croatian government, Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). Graduate in chemistry, former director general of one of the largest Croatian commercial enterprises, Astra. Joined the Radical Party during the Federal Council in Zagreb 1991.
Zdravko TOMAC
vice president of the Croatian government, Party of Democratic Reform (SDP)
Drazen BUDISA
former minister without portfolio, president of the Social Liberal Party (HSLS)
Vlado VESELICA
former minister without portfolio. President of the Croatian Democratic Party (HDS).
Stjepan MESIC
MP - last president of the former Yugoslavia - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Antun ABRAMOVIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Ivan BABIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). Born in 1952, farmer, at the first democratic elections in Croatia he supported an ecological use of the country's resources. In January 1992 he collected the adhesion to the Radical Party of seven Serbian desertors, who escaped from the federal army. Currently in charge of the peace negotiations on the front of Nova Gradiska.
Vera BABIC
MP - independent. Legal consultant in Zagreb. Actively involved in politics since 1989, supporting the program of the Croatian Democratic Union while not being a member of it. Cooperated in the commission charged with drafting the new Croatian constitution approved in 1990. Has never joined any other political party.
Zlatko BLAZINCIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Alojz DUBIEL
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Ivan DUJMOVIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). Professor of History and Geography, actively involved in politics since 1989. Among the founders of the HDZ in the municipality of Samobor.
Artur GEDIKE
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), student of Economics in Osiek. Born in 1965, one of the youngest members of the Croatian Parliament. Currently active on the military front of Slavonia.
Ivan HREN
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Zvonimir HRGOVIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Ivo JELIC
MP, Croatian Popular Party. Elected in Dubrovnik. Mechanical engineer, is active in politics (though he does not plan to become a professional politician) since 1989, supporting democratic liberties and the cooperation among different ethnical groups. Active on the military front in Dubrovnik.
Dragoljub KRALJEVIC
MP - Party of Democratic Reform (SDP)
Drago KRPINA
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Ivo LENIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Zeljko MAZAR
MP, president of the Socialist Party (SSH)
Jadranko MIJALIC
MP, Social-Liberal Party (HSLS), lives in Vrbovec. Began his political activity in 1989 and plans to run in the next elections.
Marin MILETA
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), lawyer in Starigrad
Miroslav PAVIN
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Niko POPOVIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Branko POZNJAK
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Ante PRKACIN
MP - Party of the Rule of Law (HSP)
Vice PROFACA
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Bosko SILJEG
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
Vjekoslav STUDEN
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), criminal lawyer. Has been active in politics for over ten years, but was never a member of the Communist Party.
Josip VALINCIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), elected in Osijek
Ivan VULETIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), elected in Osijek. Born in 1948, civil servant, has been active in Tudman's party for three years.
Vjekoslav ZUGAJ
MP, Social Liberal Party (HSLS). Sculptor, elected in Nova Gradiska with a coalition of several parties. Journalist, currently in charge of the coordination with the UN forces on the front of Nova Gradiska. Is currently publishing a book of testimonies on the war in the region.
Miroslav ZUPANCIC
MP - Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ). Sculptor, politically active since 1989, after working for a long period in the field of social and recreational activities.
KOSOVO
Iliaz RAMAJLI
president of the dissolved parliament of Kosovo. Member of the Albanian Democratic Union
SERBIA
Nasufi BEHLUL
MP - Serbian Parliament
Ferenc CSUBELA
MP - Serbian Parliament
Jozsef LASZA
MP - Serbian Parliament - Democratic Union of the Hungarians of Vojvodina
Sandor NAGY
MP - Serbian Parliament
Antun SKENDEROVIC
MP - Serbian Parliament - Democratic Union of the Croatians of Vojvodina (DSHV)
SLOVENIA
Eros BICIC
elected member, Journalist, former editor-in-chief of Radio Capodistria, writes for several Yugoslav and European papers, including Il Corriere della Sera. Promoter of "Group 88", a political and cultural association of the Italian minority in Yugoslavia. Active in the transnational campaigns for the rights of the minorities. Member since 1988, collaborated with Radio Radicale.
Ivan MESICEK
MP - DEMOS (Slovene Democratic Coalition).
Zoran THALER
vice foreign minister. Member of the Radical Party since 1988, contributed to the realization of the Radical Federal Council in Bohinj in Slovenia.
MACEDONIA
Eshref ALILI
MP - Republic of Macedonia - Party of Democratic Prosperity (PPD)
Abdurahaman ALITI
MP - Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia - Representative of the Albanian minority - Party of Democratic Prosperity (PPD)
Hamit ALIU
MP - Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia - Representative of the Albanian minority - Party of Democratic Prosperity ((PPD)
Vebi DZEMAILI
MP - Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia - Representative of the Albanian minority - Party of Democratic Prosperity ((PPD)
Agim FAZLIU
born in 1957 in Kindovo, province of Skopje. Graduate in sociology, professor at the "Zef Ljus Marky" school. Lives in Skopje.
Muhamed HALILI
MP - Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia - Representative of the Albanian minority - Party of Democratic Prosperity ((PPD)
Mihail PANOVSKI
MP - Parliament of the Republic of Russia. Born in 1958 in Skopje, studied at the faculty of Electrotechnics. Works as technician at the electrical power plant.
Todor PETROV
MP - Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia. Born in 1960 in Gevgelia, graduated at the faculty of Economics at the University of Skopje, director of the "Malo Stopanstvo" crafts community.
Ismet RAMADANI
MP - Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia - Representative of the Albanian minority - Party of Democratic Prosperity ((PPD)
Ferd SADIKU
born in 1942 in Beloviste, province of Gostivar; Albanian nationality. Graduate in medicine, works as specialist in internal medicine at the "Boris Kanceski" Medical Centre of Gostivar.
Arsllan SELMANI
born in 1945 in Lojane, province of Kumanovo; Albanian nationality. Graduate in mathematics, geographer, professor at the faculty of Sciences. Lives in Skopje.
Naser ZIBERI
MP - Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia - Representative of the Albanian minority - Party of Democratic Prosperity ((PPD)
SWITZERLAND
Paul GUNTER
member of the Swiss Parliament (National Council), Alliance of Independents, parliamentarian with the Party of Protestants
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Lester GRINSPOON
Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Harvard, Boston
Arnold TREBACH
president of the Drug Policy Foundation
VENEZUELA
GUESTS
Rosa DEL OLMO
criminologist, professor at the University of Caracas
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
Carlo RIPA DI MEANA
commissioner for the Environment, nuclear Security and Environmental Protection
Adelaide AGLIETTA
member of the European Parliament, Green group - elected in Italy
Virginio BETTINI
member of the European Parliament, Green group - elected in Italy
Enzo MATTINA
member of the European Parliament, Socialist Party - elected in Italy
Raul MORODO LEONCIO
member of the European Parliament, Democratic and Social Centre (CDS) - elected in Spain
Marco PANNELLA
member of the European Parliament, group of non-members - elected in Italy
Marco TARADASH
member of the European Parliament, Antiprohibitionist ticket - elected in Italy
ITALY
Adelaide AGLIETTA
currently President of the Green Group at the European Parliament. Several times member of the Italian Parliament. Secretary of the Radical Party in 1977 and 1978, year in which she was chosen as member of the jury in the trial against the Red Brigades in Turin. Promoter of the CISA (Italian centre for Sterilization and Abortion) of Turin, among the leaders of the campaigns for the depenalization of abortion. In 1986-87 she was one of the organizers of the referendum campaign for a just jutice system.
Mario ALBI
elected member. Union representative (UIL), member of the Radical Party since 1977, former secretary of the Radical Association of Perugia and promoter of the Committee for Peace of Umbria. Organized the Perugia-Assisi marches and conventions on world hunger. National promoter of the Verdi Arcobaleno. Recently founded the "League of Democrats, federalists, environmentalists and libertarians" in Umbria.
René ANDREANI
former MP, Green Group. Began his militancy in the Radical Party in 1979. Elected in the Federal Council since 1982, since 1983 has been several times auditor of the Radical Party. Among the promoters of the "Verdi Arcobaleno" ticket. Member of the Federal Council of the Federation of the "Greens" and member of the General Council of the Cora (Radical Anti-Prohibitionist Coordination).
Laura ARCONTI
elected member. Financial consultant, member of the Radical Party since 1975. Several times member of the federal Council and auditor of the Radical party. Secretary of the Life and Disarmament Association, Italian section of Food and Disarmament International. Participated in the battle against world hunger and promoter of many nonviolent initiatives such as collective fasts with the parliamentarians during the "Survival 82" campaign.
Angiolo BANDINELLI
among the founders of the Radical Party. Secretary of the Radical Party in 1970, 1972 and 1973. Treasurer in 1969. At the end of the seventies he was local councillor in Rome and member of Parliament during the ninth legislature. Was editor of several radical publications, including Prova Radicale and Notizie Radicali, and collaborated at Radio Radicale with features and articles.
Antonio BASLINI
former member of the Italian Parliament elected on the Liberal Party ticket, joined the Radical Party in 1987. Member of the Lid (Italian League for Divorce), carried out the long campaign for the passage of the bill on divorce in Italy together with the radicals, which he submitted together with Loris Fortuna.
Franca BERGER
member by right. Member of the Radical Party's secretariat in 1980 and 1985. Active in the environmental battles in Trentino, one of the promoters of the New Left ticket in 1978. At the last administrative elections she was elected at the provincial council of Trento on the Green ticket.
Lucio BERTE'
elected member. Former member of the Radical Party's Federal Council. Active in the battle against world hunger, conducted several nonviolent initiatives. Recently founded the Association for the Right to Housing in Milan. Member of the General Direction of the Cora and collaborator of the antiprohibitionist group at the regional council of Lombardia.
Virginio BETTINI
university professor, member of the European parliament for the Green group. Promoter of antinuclear initiatives since the seventies.
Emma BONINO
president of the Radical Party. Member of the Chamber of Deputies, and of the Office of the Presidency during the tenth Parliament. Among the promoters of the CISA (Italian Centre for Sterilization and Abortion), leader of the battle against clandestine abortion. Several times member of the Italian and European Parliament. Among the first in the Radical Party to raise the issue of the problem of world hunger in the international public opinion. As founding member of "Food and Disarmament International", in May 1981 she was one of the promoters of the Manifesto of Nobel Prized against hunger and for development.
Willer BORDON
member of the Chamber of Deputies, PDS group (former communist group), mayor of Muggia for many years, promoted the first local referendum against a coal power plant. He was one of the mayors who signed the appeal against world hunger. He joined the Radical Party at the Italian congress which took place in Rimini in May 1989, and since then takes active part in the life of the Radical party.
Felice BORGOGLIO
MP - Italian Socialist Party. Born in 1941 in Alessandria, member of the Italian Socialist Party since 1958. Former secretary of the Socialist Youth Federation and mayor of Alessandria. Elected member of Parliament since 1979.
Marino BUSDACHIN
elected member. Member of the radical Party since the beginning of the seventies, several times member of the federal council. Former radical local councillor in Trieste. Organized the transnational activities in Hungary and Russia. Active in the former U.S.S.R., coordinates the transnational Radical Party's initiatives and activities and collaborates at the radical project "The New Party".
Paolo BUZZANCA
elected member. Several times member of the Federal Council. He lived in Sardinia for a long period, where he was regional councillor elected on the radical ticket, carried out antimilitarist campaigns and campaigns for civil rights. A few years ago he returned to Palermo where he teaches. He was very active in trying to solve the problem of water in Sicily, carrying out a long hunger strike.
Peppino CALDERISI
during the tenth legislature, he was chairman of the European federalist group at the Chamber of Deputies. Was elected during the two previous legislatures. In 1992 was a candidate on the Lista Referendum ticket. Treasurer of the party in 1985 and in 1986. Was the proposer of several referendums for which he coordinated the collection of signatures. Among the promoters of the Arcod (Radical Association for the Democratic Constituent Assembly).
Giorgio CARDETTI
former member of the Chamber of Deputies in the Socialist group, he is also a member of the Radical Party. Former mayor of Turin. Member of the Italian Socialist Party since he was very young, he was national leader of the young socialists. Journalist at the RAI since 1969, covered the most important events of Turin and Piemonte for radio and television.
Luciano CAVERI
MP - Union Valdotaine - Mixed Group
Roberto CICCIOMESSERE
member of the Chamber of Deputies during the last legislatures, in 1992 elected on the Lista Pannella ticket. Conscientious objector, was imprisoned for the affirmation of this right. Following this initiative, in 1972 the right to conscientious objection to the military service was recognized in Italy. Treasurer of the Radical Party in 1970. Secretary in 1971 and in 1984. In 1969 he was organizational secretary of the Lid (Italian League for Divorce). Former member of the European Parliament. Mastermind and promoter of "Agorà telematica", multilingual computer communications system.
Francesco CIMINO
senator of the Italian Socialist Party, under secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests. Born in Messina in 1933, agronomist. First elected senator in 1983.
G. Battista COLUMBU
member of the Chamber of Deputies and of the European Parliament for the Partito Sardo d'Azione. Born in 1929 in the Nuoro district. Retired teacher, freelance journalist, leader of the Partito Sardo d'Azione since 1944, member of Parliament since 1984.
Franco CORLEONE
former senator and president of the European Environmentalist Federalist Group. Member of the radical party since 1972, secretary of the Radical Party in Lombardia and in 1982 President of the Federal Council. Among the promoters of the "Verdi Arcobaleno" ticket, was elected member of the European Parliament at the last European elections. Together with Domenico Modugno, with the cooperation of Radio Radicale and L'Espresso, he denounced the incredible conditions in which the patients of the mental hospital of Agrigento were forced to live in.
Piero CRAVERI
member by right. Local councillor in Naples, elected on the Radical Party ticket in 1987. Grand-son of Benedetto Croce, professor of History of the Parliamentary Institutions at the University of Naples. In 1985 he was regional councillor of Campania for the Civic and Lay ticket.
Paolo CRISTONI
MP - Italian Socialist Party
Mauro DEL BUE
MP - Italian Socialist Party. Member of the Central Committee and of the National Assembly of the Socialist Party. Author of several books and articles on the socialist history. Vice mayor of Reggio Emilia.
Sergio D'ELIA
member by right. Former member of Prima Linea, the terrorist organization which he was one of the leaders of. He has served a long term of imprisonment, which he concluded this year. Joined the Radical Party in 1986, in parallel with the Radical Party's campaign for the achievement of 10.000 members, together with other former members of terrorist organizations precisely on account of the Radical party's nonviolent characteristic. In 1987 became a member of the Radical party's Federal Secretariat, dealing in particular with the reform of the prison system. Is currently promoting an association for the right to vote for prisoners and for the reform of the system of accessory penalties. Collaborates at the Radical project "The New Party".
Gianfranco DELL'ALBA
member by right. Currently secretary-general of the Green parliamentary group at the European Parliament. Member of the board of directors of Food and Disarmament International. Former member of the Negri secretariat and of the Stanzani secretariat. Was particularly active in the struggle against world hunger on the European front.
Gaetano DENTAMARO
elected member. Conscientious assertor, refused to carry out his military service and was imprisoned for affirmation of conscience. Organizer of nonviolent demonstrations in the countries of Eastern Europe, and was expelled from Turkey and Yugoslavia. Collaborator of Radio Radicale, has been in charge of the "Street interviews" for many years.
Maria Teresa DI LASCIA
participated in many of the Radical Party's campaigns and during the campaign against world hunger organized the adhesion of thousands of Italian mayors. Former vice secretary of the Radical Party in 1982, during the secretariat of Pannella, and member of Parliament during the ninth legislature. Supporter of homeopathic medicine, she organized an important symposium on the subject and developed a draft bill.
Vincenzo DONVITO
member by right. Entrepreneur in the field of education, radical militant since the seventies. In 1974 he was member of the National Direction during the Spadaccia secretariat.
Cesare DUJANY
senator of the Union Valdotaine, Mixed Group
Adele FACCIO
a spearhead of the battled for divorce and abortion, for the affirmation of the latter right was also imprisoned. President of the Radical Party in 1975/76. She was elected member of Parliament on the radical ticket in the three previous legislatures. She struggles for the rights of animals and the environment, and was one of the promoters of the "Verdi Arcobaleno" ticket.
Rino FORMICA
minister of Finance, Italian Socialist Party. Born in Bari in 1927, graduate in Economics, professional accountant. Elected several times at the Senate and Chamber since 1979, former minister of Transport, Foreign Trade and Labour.
Laura FOSSETTI
member by right. Radical militant, active in the battles for sexual emancipation. Leader of the Fuori!. In 1977 was a member of the Aglietta secretariat. One of the most generous supporters of the Radical Party.
Paolo GHERSINA
elected member. Conscientious objector. Member of the Radical Party for many years, collaborated with the radical group at the European Parliament. Local councillor in Trieste, elected on the Trieste civica laica e verde ticket.
Roberto GIACHETTI
member by right. Conscientious objector, former member of the Rutelli secretariat. Journalist at Radio Radicale, secretary of the "Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile" environmentalist association.
Pina GRASSI
elected at the Senate in 1992 on the Green ticket in Piemonte. The widow of Libero Grassi, assassinated by the mafia in Palermo.
Gianni LANZINGER
former MP (Green group), first joined the Radical Party during the last radical congress in Budapest.
Massimo LENSI
elected member. Conscientious objector. One of the most active militants of the transnational Radical Party, since 1977 has operated for the achievement and circulation of the initiatives of the Radical Party, traveling from Istanbul to Belgrade, from Madrid to Budapest. Has been operating on a stable basis in Hungary for a couple of years and works at the radical Project "The New Party".
Oscar LOPANE
member by right. Radical militant from Brescia, member of the Negri secretariat. Active in the struggle against world hunger, carried out a precious research on development aid to the peoples of the Third and Fourth world.
Giacomo MANCINI
for many years deputy of the Italian Socialist Party, former secretary of the PSI
Giulio MANFREDI
elected member. Chief organizer of the Radical initiatives in Turin for many years. Member of the Radical Party since 1986. Currently collaborator of the antiprohibitionist group at the Regione Piemonte.
Primo MASTRANTONI
member by right. Councillor of the Verde Arcobaleno ticket at the Regione Lazio, for years has been active in the struggles for the safeguard of the environment. Former member of the Negri secretariat. Founder of the radical environmentalist Associations and of the radical consumers' association.
Enzo MATTINA
member of the European Parliament - Socialist Group. Former National secretary of the UIL, specialized in the relationship between Southern Italy and Europe. Editor of the "Euroforum" magazine.
Gianni MATTIOLI
member of the Chamber of Deputies - Green Group. Promoter since the eighties of antinuclear battles. Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University "La Sapienza", Rome.
Gianluigi MELEGA
journalist, former head of the Roman edition of "Panorama", editor-in-chief of "La Repubblica", editor of "L'Europeo", head of the political services of "L'Espresso". With the contribution of the radical deputies, as a journalist he conducted the campaign against the Lockheed scandal which forced the then President of the Republic Giovanni Leone to resign. He was fired as editor of "L'Europeo" for his inquiries on property speculation on the part of the Vatican in Rome. Former member of parliament, elected on the radical ticket during the eighth and ninth legislature.
Gianstefano MILANI
former member of Parliament - Italian Socialist Party
Enrico MODIGLIANI
elected at the Chamber of Deputies for the Italian Republican Party in 1992
Domenico MODUGNO
former radical member of Parliament for the European Federalist Group at the Chamber and Senate. Internationally acclaimed artist, musician and singer, in Parliament he struggled strenuously for the solution of health problems in Italy. Devoted special attention to the state of deterioration of mental hospitals in Italy.
Carmine NARDONE
member of the Chamber of Deputies for the PDS. Professor of Agrarian Economics at the "Centro di formazione e studi per il Mezzogiorno - FORMEZ, Naples. Member of the Lega per l'Ambiente. Author of several publications and co-author of the book "Fiducia e Sfiducia tra potere ed emarginazione".
Giovanni NEGRI
secretary of the Radical Party from 1985 to 1987. In 1986, with the slogan "either you choose it or you dissolve it", he conducted the extraordinary campaign for the achievement of 10.000 members. Several times member of the Italian and European parliament. In 1992 he ran on the Lista Referendum ticket. Leader of the battles on information and against world hunger, he also carried out a long hunger strike. Promoter of the campaign "Live Tibet" against the violent oppression of Tibet on the part of China. Currently secretary 'pro tempore' of the Arcod (Radical Association for the Democratic Constituent Assembly).
Giovanni NONNE
MP - Italian Socialist Party. Former under secretary of the Ministry of Merchant Marine and Treasury.
Sandro OTTONI
member by right. Former member of the Stanzani secretariat. Total objector to the military service, he was for this reason arrested during the radical congress of 1984 and imprisoned for many months in the military prison of Peschiera. Since 1988 he deals with the political situation in Yugoslavia, where he coordinated the radical Party's membership campaign. Currently works at the radical Project "The New Party".
Marco PANNELLA
president of the Federal Council. Member of the European Parliament, Non-members group, elected on the "Liberali Repubblicani federalisti" ticket. Among the founders of the Radical Party.
At twenty he was national university leader of the Liberal Party, at twenty two President of the UGI, the union of all lay student forces, at 23 president of the national union of university students (UNURI). At 24 promoted the foundation of the Radical Party together with a prestigious group of democratic, liberal and socialist intellectuals and politicians. The Radical Party began its activity in 1956; Pannella, with the exception of a few years, from 1960 to 1963, when he works in Paris as correspondent for "Il Giorno" is at once one of the most active militants of the party. Among the founders of the League for the Institution of Divorce, Conscientious Objection, the abrogation of the Concordat wanted by the fascist regime between Church and State, of the Centre of juridical initiative "Piero Calamandrei", of the AIED (association for population control) he was in the forefront to promote the reforms, which were then obtained, of the legislation on drugs, of the electoral vote (granting the right to vote
to eighteen year-olds), of the laws on mental hospitals.
Active in the safeguard of human and civil rights, already in 1968 he was arrested in Sofia, after having organized, in other cities of the Warsaw Pact, demonstrations in defence of the Czech people and its "Spring".
Among the first to organize the green and environmentalist movements in Europe, he was very active in the moralization of public life, against the allotment of public funds to political parties, against the corruption of party power; with the Radical Party he organized at least twenty campaigns for the collection of referendums on all the subjects of social and political life, in particular those relative to the rule of law and the administration of the justice system.
For his nonviolent battles he was tried and arrested hundreds of times, but was always acquitted, except in the case of a pecuniary penalty for a press offence. He was elected several times local councillor in Rome, Naples, Trieste, regional councillor in the Abruzzi and at the Chamber of Deputies, twice at the Senate, three times at the European Parliament.
He carried out several hunger and thirst strikes not only in Italy, but everywhere in Europe, to obtain new laws for civil and human rights and against world hunger.
Author of the text of the Manifesto-Appeal of Nobel Prizes against world hunger, which is now signed by one hundred Nobel Prize winners, of the resolution passed by the European Parliament on 30 September 1981, which lead to the passage of new laws in Italy and Belgium against world hunger.
In January 1987 ran for President of the European Parliament, obtaining 61 votes.
Alfonso PECORARO
elected member of the Chamber in 1992 on the Green ticket.
Angelo PEZZANA
member by right. Founder of the Fuori!, was the organizer of sensational initiatives for homosexual liberation, in Italy and abroad; in Moscow he was arrested and expelled. President of the Italy-Israel association. Former councillor of the Green Civic ticket of the Piemonte Region, currently antiprohibitionist local councillor in Turin.
Paolo PIETROSANTI
elected member. Radical militant since 1976, since 1985 he is a member of the Radical Party's federal Council. Conscientious objector, for many years has been active in the nonviolent and antimilitarist initiative, and has been tried several times for this reason. In 1983 published the book "The nonviolent war" with Ivan Novelli. Among the founders of "Do not Kill", the committee which promoted the international campaign for the life of Paula Cooper. He was arrested in 1986 in Warsaw in front of the seat of the tenth congress of the POUP, during a nonviolent action for the release of conscientious objectors and political prisoners in Poland. Former editor of the newspaper "Radical News", from 1988 to 1990. Active in the radical initiative in Central and Eastern Europe, and especially on Czechoslovakia.
Paolo PILLITTERI
socialist, former mayor of Turin, elected at the Chamber in 1992.
Franco PIRO
MP - Italian Socialist Party
Bepi PODDA
(incoming) elected member, Lawyer, elected local councillor in Cagliari on the antiprohibitionist ticket.
Danilo QUINTO
(incoming) elected member. Coordinator, with Edmondo Paolini, of the Italian edition of "The New Party".
Mario RAFFAELLI
member of the Chamber of Deputies, Socialist Group. Several times under secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Carlo RIPA DI MEANA
since January 1989 Commissioner for the Environment, nuclear security and environmental protection. Before that, from 1985 he had been commissioner during the previous Delors commission for Education, the Europe of citizens and information problems.
Former member of the European Parliament, regional councillor for Lombardia, president of the Tourist Board of Milan and province, councillor of the Teatro alla Scala and president of the 'Italian Lakes' committee. From 1974 to 1980 president of the Biennial Exhibition of Modern Art in Venice.
Francesco RUTELLI
secretary of the Radical Party in 1981 and Treasurer in 1984. Antimilitarist and conscientious objector, co-promoter of the Research Institute for Disarmament Development and Peace. Member of the Italian Parliament on the radical ticket from 1983 to last year, he was chairman of the Radical group at the Chamber; re-elected in 1992 on the Green ticket. At the last European elections he was among the promoters of the "Verdi Arcobaleno" ticket. Member of the Coordination Group of the Green Federation, local councillor in Rome in the Green group, among the founders of the "Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile", an environmentalist association.
Francesca SCOPELLITI
elected member. Journalist. Provincial councillor of Milan, elected on the Verdi Arcobaleno ticket. The companion of Enzo Tortora, together with him and the radicals she carried out the battle for a just justice system. After Tortora's death she created the "Tortora Foundation", which she is Treasurer of. Active in all radical battles and initiatives, she is incoming member of the European Parliament.
Gianfranco SPADACCIA
journalist. Among the founders of the Radical Party, which he was secretary of in 1968, 1975 and 1976; several times president of the Federal Council. In 1975, as secretary of the Radical Party, he organized with the CISA (Information Centre on Sterilization and Abortion) actions of civil disobedience against the crime of abortion. For this reason he was arrested and convicted for criminal association and procured abortion. Several times member of the Chamber and Senate, former president of the European Environmentalist Federalist Group.
Tomaso STAITI DI CUDDIA DELLE CHIUSE
former member of Parliament, elected on the MSI ticket for three times, resigned from the party. Local councillor in Milan.
Antonio STANGO
member by right; former member of the Negri secretariat. For years he has been active for the respect of human and civil rights in the countries of Eastern Europe, participating in nonviolent initiatives, publishing specialized magazines and organizing meetings which prestigious dissidents have taken part in; he was arrested during a series of nonviolent demonstrations in Warsaw, East Berlin and Moscow. Secretary of the Italian Helsinki Committee. Currently works at the radical project "The New Party".
Sergio STANZANI
engineer, Central Director of the Finmeccanica (IRI group) in 1979, when he was elected at the Senate of the Republic. Among the founders of the Radical Party. Since 1946 he is part of the leadership of the Italian Students Union (UGI), the organization of lay university students which was formed after World War II and which gave birth, together with the organizations of Catholic students and other minor associations, to the representations of university students on a local and national scale; the UNURI, which he was president of in 1952 and 1953.
Member of the Italian Liberal Party, he leaves it to give birth to the Radical Party. With the radical Left he participated in the Radical Party's refoundation, coordinating the development of the news Statute. Elected at the Senate in 1979, he is re-elected at the Chamber of Deputies in 1983 and confirmed at the Chamber in the elections of June 1987. During the tenth Parliament he was member, for about a year, of the Office of the Presidency of the Chamber. During the previous Parliaments he had been a member, among others, of the Committee of Inquiry first and then of the Committee of Inspection on Radio and TV services.
Elected First Secretary of the Radical Party in January 1988 in Bologna by the 34th Congress, and confirmed by the 35th Congress of Budapest in April 1989.
Lorenzo STRIK LIEVERS
former member of the Senate, Environmentalist European Federalist Group. Professor of contemporary history at the University of Milan. Among the promoters of the reconstitution of the Radical Party. In 1966 he was arrested for having circulated an antimilitarist fly sheet during the celebration of the armed forces. This initiative, for which he was tried and acquitted, contributed to raising the issue of the right to conscientious objection in the public opinion. In 1983 he was President of the Federal Council.
Massimo STRUFFI
elected at the Senate on the PSI ticket in 1992.
Andrea TAMBURI
elected member. Member of the radical Party since 1981, participated in most of the Radical party's initiatives during the last ten years. Expelled several times from Yugoslavia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia following nonviolent demonstrations for human and civil rights. Collaborator of the parliamentary Green group at the Chamber of Deputies. Over the last months has worked in the Party's headquarters in Moscow.
Marco TARADASH
member of the European Parliament, Green Group, elected on the Antiprohibitionist ticket. Elected at the Chamber in 1992 on the Lista Pannella ticket. President of the Federal Council in 1986 and 1988. Journalist, for ten years was in charge of the program "Press and Regime" for Radio Radicale. Among the founders of the Cora (Radical Anti-Prohibitionist Coordination), which he is secretary of. In 1989 among the promoters of the Congress for the foundation of the IAL (International Antiprohibitionist League).
Aligi TASCHERA
member by right. Member of the Aglietta secretariat in 1978 and of the Negri secretariat in 1985. Several times member of the Federal Council, was an active militant of the battles for sexual emancipation and of the antimilitarist battles.
Massimo TEODORI
member by right; vice secretary of the radical Party during the first year of the Stanzani secretariat. Professor University of American History. Participated in the refoundation of the Radical Party in 1962. Elected member of Parliament on the radical ticket during the last three Parliaments, and has carried out important parliamentary battles, denouncing the scandals of the regime. On 1992 ran on the Lista Referendum ticket. Member and counter-reporter of the Committees of inquiry on Sindona and the P2. Editor and founder of the magazines "La Prova Radicale" and "Argomenti Radicali".
Laura TERNI SCHEMEIL
representative of the 'Satyagraha group' radical association.
Alessandro TESSARI
MP, elected on the PCI ticket in several parliaments, in 1979 ran and was elected on the radical ticket. Elected also during the tenth parliament. University Professor in Padua, he is particularly active in the environmentalist and antinuclear battles. Among the leaders of the long obstructionist battles carried out by the radical deputies against emergency laws.
Carlo TOGNOLI
minister for Tourism and Entertainment. Journalist, member of the Socialist Party since 1957, he also joined the Radical Party for 1991. Mayor of Milan from 1976 to 1986, President of the Institute of Urban Technology in Milan. Member of the European Parliament in 1984. Member of the Socialist Party's National Direction.
Andrea TORELLI
member by right. Chemist, environmentalist. Treasurer in 1968, among the founders of Radio Radicale. Generous financial supporter of the most important campaigns of the Radical Party.
Alberto TORZUOLI
(incoming) elected member. Auditor of the Radical Party for many years. Environmentalist. Leader of the major battles of the Radical Party.
Maurizio TURCO
member by right. Vice treasurer of the Radical Party since 1988. Treasurer of the Cora (Radical Anti-Prohibitionist Coordination). In 1981 founder of the "regional committee of Puglia against world hunger) and was among the promoters of the antinuclear battles in Puglia. In 1983 he was elected at the Federal Council. Former member of the Radical Party's secretariat. In 1987 editor of "Radical News". Coordinator of the distribution of the fifteen editions of "The New Party".
Andrea VALCARENGHI, Majid
member by right. Militant of the students movement and founder of the magazine "Re Nudo", author of the book "Underground a pugno chiuso" which Marco Pannella wrote a preface to, known as "La fantasia come necessità". He is an exponent of the Sannyasin movement.
Emilio VESCE
member by right. On 7 April 1979 he is arrested, charged with belonging to an armed group, subversive association and armed insurrection against the powers of the State. Sentenced to 13 years of imprisonment, he was later acquitted after spending five years, five months and five days in special prisons. In 1987 he was elected member of Parliament on the radical ticket. Currently antiprohibitionist councillor in Veneto.
Paolo VIGEVANO
member by right. Treasurer of the Radical Party. Founder and published of Radio Radicale, which broadcasts on the entire Italian territory. "Radio Radical" was granted a legislative and financial acknowledgment for the public service it has been providing for fifteen years, broadcasting live the legislative assemblies, the congresses of all parties, the most important trials. Former treasurer of the Radical Party from 1975 to 1980.
Elio VITO
local councillor in Naples, elected on the Radical Party ticket. Member of the General Council of the CORA. Elected at the Chamber of Deputies on the 'Lista Marco Pannella' ticket in April 1992.
Bruno ZEVI
honorary president of the Radical Party. Member of the Chamber of Deputies, European Federalist Group, in the tenth Parliament. Internationally acclaimed historian of architecture and author of several essays. Professor at the Universities of Venice and Rome. Since 1955 he is in charge of a column on "L'Espresso". Active member of the Italian Israeli community. Participated in the antifascist battled in the Partito d'Azione, 'Giustizia e Libertà' group. Editor since 1955 of the monthly magazine "L'architettura, cronache e storie".
GUESTS
Andrea CHITI BATELLI
expert in European problems, member of the European Federalist Movement since 1944
Giandomenico GAGGIANO
professor of International Law
Pier Virgilio DASTOLI
secretary of the federalist intergroup at the European Parliament
Alberto MAJOCCHI
professor of Financial Sciences at the University of Pavia
Ugo VILLANI
professor of International Law
