Italian Democratic Socialists
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| Italian Democratic Socialists Socialisti Democratici Italiani |
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 Italian National Party |
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| Leader | Enrico Boselli |
| Founded | November 14, 1994 (as Italian Socialists) May 10, 1998 (as Italian Democratic Socialists) |
| Headquarters | Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina, 26 00186 Rome |
| Coalition | The Union |
| Political ideology | Social democracy, Democratic socialism |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| European Parliament Group | Party of European Socialists |
| Membership | 59,882 (2003, [1]) |
| Official newspaper | Avanti!, MondOperaio |
| Website | http://www.sdionline.it |
| See also | Politics of Italy |
The Italian Democratic Socialists (Socialisti Democratici Italiani, SDI) is a small social-democratic party in Italy. The party leader is Enrico Boselli.
[edit] History
SDI is one of the heirs of the old Italian Socialist Party (PSI), born in 1998 by the convergence of the Italian Socialists (Enrico Boselli, Roberto Villetti and Ottaviano Del Turco), the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Gian Franco Schietroma and Giorgio Carta), part of Labour Federation, part of the Socialist Party (Ugo Intini) and the Socialist League (Claudio Martelli and Bobo Craxi).
In the 2004 European Parliament election, two SDI MEPs were elected on the Olive Tree ticket.
In 2004 Giorgio Carta left to re-form the Italian Democratic Socialist Party, while in 2006 Claudio Martelli and Bobo Craxi left in order to form with Gianni De Michelis the New Italian Socialist Party (NPSI). In 2006 Socialist Unity of Claudio Signorile joined the SDI, while some members of NPSI, as Donato Robilotta, founded the Reformist Socialists and joined directly the Rose in the Fist.
In 2005 SDI entered in alliance with the Italian Radicals, a libertarian party, forming the Rose in the Fist list.
In the 2006 general election the list scored only 2.6%, much lesser than the electoral sum of the two parties before the alliace (Radicals alone took 2.3% in the 2004 European Parliament election). It seemed that the Radicals lost voters in their strongholds in the North to Forza Italia, while the Socialists lost ground in the South, where they are more radicated, to the Olive Tree parties (see electoral results of the Rose in the Fist).
[edit] Leadership
- Secretary: Enrico Boselli (1998–...)
- Deputy-Secretary: Roberto Villetti (1998–...), Claudio Martelli (1999–2001), Gian Franco Schietroma (2001–2002)
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