Partito Socialista Italiano (2007)


Partito Socialista Italiano




Party executive	Riccardo Nencini (Segretario) Carlo Vizzini (Presidente)

founding	October 5, 2007
ideology	Social Democracy Left Liberalism

International connections	Socialist International
European party	Party of European Socialists (PES)

MPs	3/630
Senators	3/320
MEPs	0/76

Headquarters	Italy Rome , Via Santa Caterina da Siena 57
Party newspaper	Avanti! , MondOperaio
Website	www.partitosocialista.it

The Partito Socialista Italiano ( German Socialist Party of Italy , abbreviation PSI) is an Italian social democratic party that was founded in October 2007 under the name Partito Socialista (PS).

history

Founded as Partito Socialista

The Costituente Socialista ( socialist founding initiative ), which was founded by Enrico Boselli ( SDI ) and proclaimed on October 6, 2007, was joined by several moderate left small parties and groups:

the Socialisti Democratici Italiani (SDI) under Boselli's chairmanship;
a group around Gianni De Michelis and Mauro Del Bue , who had turned their backs on Nuovo PSI because they no longer wanted to support the coalition with Berlusconi ;
I Socialisti around Vittorio ("Bobo") Craxi and Saverio Zavettieri , who had left Nuovo PSI in 2006 in a dispute with De Michelis . However, since Zavettieri refused to sign shortly before the foundation, only Craxi and Franco Simone joined the PS;
the association Democrazia e Socialismo ( Democracy and Socialism ) of Senator Gavino Angius and the MPs Valdo Spini , Franco Grillini , Fabio Baratella and Alberto Nigra , which split off from the Sinistra Democratica (SD) and before that from the Democratici di Sinistra (DS) ;
the Costituente riformista ( Reformist Founding Initiative ) by Carmelo Conte ;

the grouping Socialismo è Libertà ( socialism is freedom ) by Rino Formica ;

the Costituente Laica Liberal Socialista ( Laizist-Liberalsozialistische Gründungsinitiative ) under the leadership of Lanfranco Turci , the chairman of the national association for the electoral alliance Rosa nel Pugno ;

Luigi Angeletti , chairman of the Unione Italiana del Lavoro (UIL), together with other union representatives;

Apostates from other parties in the center-left such as B. the Senator Roberto Barbieri (formerly member of the DS) and Cinzia Dato , (formerly member of the Margherita ).

As part of the center-left alliance L'Unione , the PS placed a deputy minister ( Ugo Intini ) and 4 state secretaries in the second Prodi cabinet until April 2008 . In the Italian Parliament he was represented by 15 MPs and 3 Senators until the parliamentary elections in 2008 , while 3 MPs of the party in the European Parliament have joined the Group of the Party of European Socialists (PES).

In the parliamentary elections on April 13th and 14th, 2008, after failed negotiations with the Partito Democratico on a list connection, the PS entered as an individual list and failed to make it into both chambers of parliament: In the House of Representatives elections, it achieved just under 1% of the votes and with the Senate elections 0.9%. Enrico Boselli then announced his resignation from the party leadership.

On March 16, 2009, the PS joined the new list connection Sinistra e Libertà for the European elections .

Renaming to Partito Socialista Italiano

From the beginning, the party understood itself in the tradition of the Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI), which was dissolved in 1994 , but initially chose a name with which it could differentiate itself more from the Nuovo PSI, which had moved to the center-right .

On October 7, 2009, however, the party decided to adopt the traditional name Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI) and launch the Avanti! to be revived as an online magazine.

In the 2013 parliamentary elections , the party joined the center-left electoral alliance Italia. Bene Comune under the leadership of the Partito Democratico and has since been part of the government coalition of Prime Ministers Enrico Letta and Matteo Renzi .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Il no di Radicali e Socialisti. Il Pd in trattative con Di Pietro La Repubblica , February 11, 2008

↑ Boselli si dimette e attacca Veltroni: “Ha consegnato l'Italia a Berlusconi” ( 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. La Repubblica, April 14, 2008@1@ 2

↑ Reuters on March 16, 2009

[1] Il no di Radicali e Socialisti. Il Pd in trattative con Di Pietro La Repubblica , February 11, 2008