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{{short description|Italian politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| name            = Claudio Grassi
| image           = Claudio Grassi.jpg
| caption         =
| office1          = [[Senate (Italy)|Member of the Senate]]
| term_start1      = 28 April 2006
| term_end1        = 28 April 2008
| constituency1    =
| birth_date      = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1955|11|12}}
| birth_place     = Reggio Emilia, Emilia Romagna, Italy
| nationality     = Italian
| profession      = Politician
| party           = [[Italian Communist Party|PCI]] <small>(until 1991)</small> <br> [[Communist Refoundation Party|PRC]] <small>(1991–2017)</small> <br> [[Italian Left|SI]] <small>(since 2017)</small>
| alma_mater      =
}}
'''Claudio Grassi''' (born 12 November 1955 in [[Reggio Emilia]]) is an [[politics of Italy|Italian politician]].

==Biography==
In 1973 Grassi started working in the factory as a worker, remaining there until 1992. In these years he was a trade union delegate in the [[Italian General Confederation of Labour|CGIL]].{{fact|date=October 2019}}

In his city, Reggio Emilia, he was promoter of the Italy-Nicaragua Association and of the Association for Peace and was also responsible for cultural activities and vice-president of the Antonio Gramsci club. He was therefore elected municipal councilor for the [[Italian Communist Party]] in the municipality of Bibbiano and appointed assessor for culture.{{fact|date=October 2019}}

In 1991 he joined the [[Communist Refoundation Party]], of which he became regional secretary in 1993. In 1995 he was elected to the national secretariat of the party, where he remained until 2004, holding the position of national treasurer. In 1998, Grassi and other executives left the faction of the party's president, [[Armando Cossutta]], opposed to his decision to vote the confidence to the [[Prodi I Cabinet]], by joining the majority of the secretary [[Fausto Bertinotti]] with his component, called [[The Ernesto]].{{fact|date=October 2019}}

In the VI party congress (2005), founded a new current [[Being Communists]], to support its own motion as an alternative to that of the secretary of the party (Bertinotti).<ref>[https://journals.openedition.org/qds/979 Rifondazione Comunista at its 6th National Conference: a strategy of textual and semantic analysis]</ref>

In 2006 Grassi was elected Senator, but he was not re-confirmed in the 2008 general election. In the 2013 general election he was candidate to the Chamber of Deputies with [[Civil Revolution]], without being elected.{{fact|date=October 2019}}

In 2016 he left the Communist Refoundation Party and in 2017 joined the [[Italian Left]], of which he was later appointed president. In 2018 he was again candidate to the Chamber of Deputies among the ranks of [[Free and Equal (Italy)|LeU]].{{fact|date=October 2019}}

On 1 June 2019, after the resignation of [[Nicola Fratoianni]] as secretary, Grassi was appointed regent leader of Italian Left.<ref>[https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/06/01/sinistra-italiana-fratoianni-si-dimette-da-segretario-da-europee-emerso-tema-della-frammentazione-nel-nostro-campo/5225317/ Sinistra italiana, Fratoianni si dimette da segretario: "Da Europee emerso tema della frammentazione nel nostro campo"]</ref>

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