The Social Democrats (), officially Social Democracy (, SD), is a

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political party in Italy founded on 2 July 2022.National assembly of Social Democrats on 2 July in Rome - www.socialdemocratici.it
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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 ...

(PSDI), founded by

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and other reformist socialists on 11 January 1947. Britannica.com

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Background

In 2001, Domenico "Mimmo" Magistro, one of the leading members of Social Democracy (SD), was the founder of another social democratic party, named The Social Democrats – Federalists for the Euromediterranean (''i Socialdemocratici – Federalisti per l'Euromediterraneo'', iSD) and active above all in

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. The iSD was founded after Magistro, secretary of the 2004 refounded

from 2007 to July 2011, was replaced with

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by a tribunal in Rome as the legitimate national secretary of the party. Magistro proposed a reconciliation between the two factions; D'Andria did not accept the conditions posed by him. In mid-November 2011, 28 members out of 31 of the outgoing National Council, including Magistro, left the PSDI in order to form iSD.

History

On 2 July 2022, the first national conference of the party took place, 75 years after the split of Palazzo Barberini, from the name of a palace in Rome where the foundation of the PSDI took place. In the national conference, Umberto Costi was appointed national secretary of the party, while Magistro, became honorary chairman. In addition to several former activists from PSDI, the new party was joined by Antonio Matasso, leader of the

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, which became the regional secretary of the party in Sicily. The members of the iSD come mostly from the PSDI but also from the Italian Socialist Party and the libertarian factions of the

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. The party, which initially wanted to contest the

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in a

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enlarged to include the centrist parties, favours the autonomy of the regional sections and aims to promote a new Socialist Constituent. In the run-up to the 2022 general election, the party joined forces with Italia Viva and

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's Action, aiming to represent the left-wing of the

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Ideology

The party adheres to the ideas of

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, liberal socialism, and social democracy. As a supporter of internationalism and pro-Europeanism, the party is committed to maintaining Italy in the geopolitical cadre of advanced

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.The Social Democrats for an Italy among the advanced democracies, always
official web site of the Social Democrats (Italy)

Leadership

*Secretary:

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(2022–present)

References

External links

Official website
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