The European Liberal Social Democracy ( it, Socialdemocrazia Liberale Europea, SOLE), was a

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political party in Italy This article contains a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861. Throughout history, numerous political parties have been operating in Italy, and since World War II no party has ever gained enough support to govern ...

. It was initially founded as an internal faction of the

Italian Democratic Socialist Party The Italian Democratic Socialist Party (, PSDI), also known as Italian Social Democratic Party, was a minor social-democratic political party in Italy. The longest serving partner in government for Christian Democracy, the PSDI had been an im ...

on 10 December 1994 by Enrico Ferri and Luigi Preti, to defend themselves from attacks within the party. Indeed Ferri was forced to resign as secretary after his alliance decision with the centre-right was strongly disputed within the party and causes the PSDI to be suspended by the

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. In the XXIV congress, held from 28 to 29 January 1995, Gian Franco Schietroma was appointed secretary of the PSDI, which was thus readmitted into the Socialist International; instead Ferri and Preti decided to left the PSDI and SOLE became an autonomous party, with a collocation in the centre-right coalition. The European Liberal Social Democracy, under the leadership of Ferri, began a collaboration with the

Christian Democratic Centre The Christian Democratic Centre ( it, Centro Cristiano Democratico, CCD) was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy from 1994 to 2002. Formed from a right-wing split from Christian Democracy, the party joined the centre-right coalition, a ...

that was not agreed by Preti, who in turn decided to leave the party to found Social Democratic Rebirth (which instead federated with

Forza Italia Forza ItaliaThe name is not usually translated into English: ''forza'' is the second-person singular imperative of ''forzare'', in this case translating to "to compel" or "to press", and so means something like "Forward, Italy", "Come on, Ital ...

). SOLE finally dissolved into the Christian Democratic Centre during 1996.Segretari e leader del socialismo italiano
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