La Sinistra - L'Arcobaleno
| La Sinistra - L'Arcobaleno | |
| Party executive | Fausto Bertinotti (Leader) |
| founding | December 8, 2007 |
| resolution | 2008 |
| ideology | Eurocommunist , socialist , social democratic , pacifist , ecological |
| International connections | no |
| EP Group | VEL / NGL (PRC, PdCI), SPE (SD), Greens / EFA (Verdi) |
| MPs |
0/630 |
| Senators |
0/315 |
| Party newspaper | Liberazione (PRC), La Rinascita della sinistra (PdCI), Notes verdi (FdV) |
La Sinistra - L'Arcobaleno ( Italian for The Left - The Rainbow) , also known in Italy with the nickname Cosa Rossa ( Red Cause ), was an alliance of the Italian Left and Greens that was formed at the end of 2007 and for the first time in the 2008 parliamentary elections started. It consisted of the following parties:
- Partito della Rifondazione Comunista (PRC)
- Sinistra Democratica (SD)
- Partito dei Comunisti Italiani (PdCI)
- Federazione dei Verdi (FdV)
history
Since the merger of the former Democratici di Sinistra (left-wing democrats) with Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita (the Christian Democrats of the center-left alliance L'Unione ) and some small parties of the political center to form the Partito Democratico (PD) in October 2007, the Groupings on the left edge of the Italian party spectrum highlight the need for reorganization. The four parties PRC, SD, PdCI and the Greens initially met agreements at a first national congress in Rome on December 8th and 9th, 2007 and planned further cooperation under the alliance name La Sinistra - L'Arcobaleno .
After the fall of the Prodi government in January 2008 and the final dissolution of the Unione that had ruled until then through the sole assumption of the PD in the new elections in April 2008, the four left-wing parties formed an electoral alliance and joined the former PRC chairman and president of the Chamber of Deputies , Fausto Bertinotti , as the top candidate. The lists were made up of equal numbers of women and men.
Since, for the second time after the parliamentary elections in 2006 , Italians living abroad were able to vote in the consulates of their place of residence, representative groups of La Sinistra - L'Arcobaleno were founded in other European countries . In Germany there have been a. in Berlin and Hamburg those sections that campaigned for the votes of Italians abroad in the so-called constituency Europe (Circoscrizione Europa) .
With only 3.1% in the House of Representatives elections and 3.2% in the Senate elections, the alliance recorded landslide-like losses on April 14, 2008 and failed to make it into both chambers because of the threshold clauses (4 and 8%). For the first time since the founding of the Italian Republic, no communist party was represented in parliament. As a consequence of this historic defeat, Bertinotti announced his complete retirement from politics.
The Federazione dei Verdi and the Sinistra Democratica then founded the party alliance Sinistra e Libertà on March 16, 2009 with other left parties , which can be understood as the successor to the Sinistra - Arcobaleno .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Bertinotti candidato premier della sinistra, Sì da Diliberto ANSA, February 3, 2008
- ↑ Assemblea Costituente del Comitato promotore de la Sinistra l'Arcobaleno per la Germania ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. www.gramsciklub.de, January 13, 2008
- ↑ Sinistra sconfitta, Bertinotti lascia Corriere della Sera 14 April, 2008
- ^ Nasce "Sinistra e Libertà" Reuters , March 16, 2009
