Italian Communist Youth Federation In 1975, D'Alema was elected national secretary of the
Italian Communist Youth Federation (FGCI). It was during this period that D'Alema and
Walter Veltroni met each other, and with him a dualism would form, without any public attacks. Years later, Veltroni recounted: "Massimo came from the party to more severely lead a rebel FGCI, I was more attentive to the movements." In 1983, he became regional secretary of the PCI's Apulian federation. Committed to institutional reforms during the
first Prodi government, he was first elected president of a bicameral commission for constitutional reforms in February 1997 and began the development of the PDS into a new unitary force that would aggregate further personalities and organizations from the socialist, secular, and left-wing Catholic area. In February 1998, the start of the formation process of the DS, which was led by D'Alema, was concluded with the merge of the PDS, the
Labour Federation, the
Movement of Unitarian Communists, the
Social Christians, and exponents of the republican left. when he stood down following his election to the Chamber of Deputies in Italy. Immediately following the April 2006 election, D'Alema was proposed as the future
president of the Chamber of Deputies. The PRC strongly pushed for its leader,
Fausto Bertinotti, to become the next president. After a couple of days of heated debate, D'Alema stepped back to prevent a fracture between the parties, an act that was applauded by his allies. As a result, Bertinotti was elected president. That same month, D'Alema was appointed as
Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and
Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs in the
second Prodi government. in May 2021, he reiterated that while aggression from
Hamas is unacceptable, "there is a lack of truth in the way this tragedy is being addressed. ... [We need to] try to understand in some depth how a crisis of this kind explodes, why Hamas and the
Islamists have become so strong." He served in those posts until Prodi's government fell and Berlusconi's
The People of Freedom (PdL) prevailed in the
2008 Italian general election. D'Alema was re-elected to the Chamber of Deputies in this election as part of the newly formed PD. The Mitrokhin Commission, which was established in 2002 by the
centre-right coalition majority closed in 2006 with a majority and a minority report, without reaching shared conclusions, and without any concrete evidence given to support the original allegations of
KGB ties to Italian politicians contained in the
Mitrokhin Archive. The centre-right coalition-led commission was criticized as politically motivated, as it was focused mainly on allegations against opposition figures. November 2006 saw the publication of telephone interceptions between the chairman of the Mitrokhin Commission,
Forza Italia senator
Paolo Guzzanti, and Scaramella. In the wiretaps, Guzzanti made it clear that the true intent of the Mitrokhin Commission was to support the hypothesis that Prodi would have been an agent financed or in any case manipulated by Moscow and the KGB. According to the opposition, which submitted its own minority report, this hypothesis was false, and the purpose of the commission was therefore to discredit opposition politicians. In the wiretaps, Scaramella had the task of collecting testimonies from some ex-agents of the Soviet secret service refugees in Europe to support these accusations; he was later charged for
calumny. In a December 2006 interview given to the television program
La storia siamo noi, colonel ex-KGB agent Oleg Gordievsky, whom Scaramella claimed as his source, confirmed the accusations made against Scaramella regarding the production of false material relating to D'Alema, Prodi, and other Italian politicians, and underlined their lack of reliability.
From the Democratic Party to Free and Equal meeting in May 2009 In 2010, D'Alema was elected president of the
Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic (COPASIR), a position he held until 2013, and of the Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS).
Dalemiani criticize the PD's Veltroanian Charter.
Dalemiani support a party with an
anti-capitalist aspiration, in contrast to the majoritarian aspirations, akin to Britain and the United States, and the reform and amelioration of capitalism. Since the 2018 general election, D'Alema, like Veltroni, left the political scenes and became an opinion leader. Ahead of the
2023 PD leadership election, some commentators argued that the contest between
Stefano Bonaccini and
Elly Schlein was remiscent of that of D'Alema and Veltroni, respectively; About the M5S leader
Giuseppe Conte and the M5S, which he said that he did not vote for in the
2022 Italian general election, D'Alema said: "It is voted for by workers and people in economic difficulty much more than the Democratic Party. A part of the progressives chose him." == European politics and foreign policy views ==