Everything about Socialist Party Italy totally explained
The
Socialist Party (
Partito Socialista, PS) is a
Italian political party. The party was officially unveiled during an assembly held in
Rome on
5-
6 October 2007.
A number of minor parties and associations will merge in the new party:
History
A merger of all former social-democratic parties in Italy was initially proposed by
Enrico Boselli during the
April 2007 congress of the
Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI), during which the party decided not to join the
Democratic Party, asking other parties to join them in a "Socialist Constituent Assembly" (
Costituente Socialista) with the aim to create a new Italian party inspired by
social democracy and based on the tradition of the old
Italian Socialist Party (PSI).
Some minor parties and associations, including
The Italian Socialists of
Bobo Craxi,
Socialism is Freedom led by
Rino Formica and the
Association for the Rose in the Fist of
Lanfranco Turci (former member of the
Democrats of the Left) joined from the beginning the proposal by Enrico Boselli.
In
June 2007, the
New Italian Socialist Party (NPSI) split in two groups: the first, led by
Stefano Caldoro, opted to stay within the
House of Freedoms; the second, led by
Gianni De Michelis, agreed to join the Constituent Assembly from
July instead. The former retained the NPSI identity, while De Michelis' faction adopted the name
Socialist Party.
The Socialist Constituent Assembly met for the first time on
14 July 2007 in
Rome, and was attended also by former Democrats of the Left and then-
Democratic Left members
Gavino Angius (leader of
Democracy and Socialism),
Franco Grillini and
Valdo Spini, as well as
Roberto Barbieri, he himself a former DS member,
Cinzia Dato, a former
Liberal from
Democracy is Freedom – Daisy (DL), and
Luigi Angeletti, trade unionist and national secretary of the
Italian Labour Union (UIL).
In
September 2007 Angius, Grillini and Spini quit Democratic Left citing their opposition to build an alliance with a number of Italian far left parties and instead joined the Socialist Constituent Assembly.
For the
2008 general election, the Socialist Party stood alone, outside of any alliance with other parties. In the election, the Socialist Party gained less than 1% of the vote and failed to win any seats in the
Italian Parliament.
Popular support
Similarly to its predecursors, the party is rooted in the South, where its strongholds are. In the
2008 general election it won 2.0% in
Calabria (2.8% for the
Senate), 2.8% in
Basilicata, 1.6% in
Apulia and a surprising 1.8% in
Umbria.
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