Simply Democrats ( it, Semplicemente Democratici) was a heterogeneous
faction
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within the
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, a
political party in Italy
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.
At the
2009 leadership election the group (whose main members included
Sergio Cofferati,
Rita Borsellino
Rita Borsellino (; 2 June 1945 – 15 August 2018) was an Italian Sicilian anti-Mafia activist, politician and, between 2009 and 2014, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Democratic Party.
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Borsellino was born in Pale ...
,
David Sassoli
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,
Debora Serracchiani
Debora Serracchiani (born 10 November 1970) is an Italian politician. Born in Rome, she is a member of Democratic Party, and was president of the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. In 2016, she proposed and got the approval of a regional l ...
and
Francesca Barracciu
Francesca Barracciu (born 11 June 1966, Sorgono) is an Italian politician. She is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
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Graduated in philosophy and pedagogy, she was a teacher of literary and Latin subjects at ...
) supported the candidacy of
Dario Franceschini
Dario Franceschini (; born 19 October 1958) is an Italian lawyer, writer, and politician, member of the Democratic Party (PD), of which he briefly became leader in 2009. Franceschini served as Minister of Cultural Heritage and Activities and T ...
, who eventually lost to
Pier Luigi Bersani.
Serracchiani and
Giuseppe Civati later organized a new faction composed mainly of middle-aged and young Democrats.
References
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