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Italian Democratic Socialists
The Italian Democratic Socialists (, SDI) was a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was the direct continuation of the Italian Socialists, the legal successor of the historical Italian Socialist Party. The Italian Democratic Socialist Party, the other long-time Italian social-democratic party, was merged into it along with other minor parties. The party's long-time leader was Enrico Boselli, a former president of Emilia-Romagna (1990–1993). In 2007, the SDI were merged with other descendants of the PSI to form the modern-day Italian Socialist Party. History Early years The SDI were founded in 1998 by the merger of the Italian Socialists (Enrico Boselli, Roberto Villetti, and Ottaviano Del Turco), the Italian Democratic Socialist Party ( Gian Franco Schietroma, and Giorgio Carta), a portion of the Labour Federation, a portion of the Socialist Party ( Ugo Intini), and the Socialist League ( Claudio Martelli and Bobo Craxi). In their first appeara ...
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Italian Socialists
The Italian Socialists (, SI) were a minor social-democratic political party in Italy active from 1994 to 1998. The party was the legal successor of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), following its dissolution by the 47th Party Congress due to the severe financial crisis following the ''Tangentopoli'' scandal. A minoritarian group of the congress, who proposed an autonomist and centrist solution against the PSI dissolution, instead founded the Reformist Socialist Party. History Crisis of the Italian Socialist Party 1994 general election In occasion of the 1994 general election and the introduction of the majoritarian electoral system of "Mattarellum", the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) of Ottaviano Del Turco joined the Alliance of Progressives coalition; however, the PSI obtained poor results compared to the main parties of the coalition: PSI received 2.2% of votes in the proportional quota for the Chamber of Deputies and the 0.3% for the Senate. However, PSI parliamentar ...
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Legal Successor (organization)
A legal successor of an organization is a successor entity legally declared and recognized as such in all or some respects. Laws governing legal succession may be different for legal successors of business and non-profits, as well as in historical sense. Laws for nonprofits In the case of a merger, the surviving organization is the legal successor to the others in respect to liability. In the case of dissolution without assigning a legal successor, the funds and assets of the dissolved entity may be granted to other entities. The latter entities are not legal successors, but simply as grantees of the mentioned funds. Different types of organizations may have specific laws as to legal succession in particular cases. For example, the 2015 Kansas Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas ...
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Bobo Craxi
Vittorio Michele Craxi, commonly known as Bobo Craxi (born 6 August 1964), is an Italian politician, son of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and brother of Stefania Craxi. Biography Formerly a prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party and Socialist League, he was a founder of the New Italian Socialist Party in 2001. He has been elected MP at the Chamber of Deputies of Italy for the riding of Trapani in the 2001 general election in the House of Freedoms centre-right coalition, serving until 2006. He left the NPSI in late January 2006 after the rejection, by a judicial court, of his claim of having been elected as new national Secretary. Thus he founded a new movement, The Socialists, of which he was the leader for a period. The party was part of the centre-left coalition The Union, and eventually merged into the refounded Socialist Party in 2007. In 2006-2008 he served in the Prodi government as undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, delegated to Un ...
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Claudio Martelli
Claudio Martelli (born 24 September 1943) is an Italian former politician and journalist. He is the editor-in-chief of the former Italian Socialist Party (PSI) newspaper ''Avanti!'' The right-hand man of Bettino Craxi, the PSI leader and Prime Minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987, Martelli was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy from 1989 to 1992 and Minister of Justice from 1991 to 1993, when he was implicated in the ''Tangentopoli'' scandal and left politics. Martelli returned to politics in 1997 and re-founded '' Mondoperaio'', a PSI-affiliated cultural magazine, and joined the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI), becoming in 1999 a Member of the European Parliament (MEP), a position he first held with the PSI between 1984 and 1989. In 2001, he joined the centre-right coalition-affiliated New Italian Socialist Party (NPSI) and unsuccessfully ran for the Chamber of Deputies, a position he also held with the PSI from 1979 to 1994. After again ending his party politics career in 200 ...
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Socialist League (Italy)
The Socialist League (, LS) was a tiny social-democratic party in Italy, founded by Bobo Craxi on 10 May 2000. The Socialist League was already operating as a faction within the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI), of which the LS was a founding member in 1998. A year later, Craxi was an unsuccessful SDI candidate in the 1999 European Parliament election, while Claudio Martelli was elected and later appointed SDI deputy leader. In June 2000 both Craxi and Martelli left the SDI. In January 2001 the LS was merged with the Socialist Party to form the New Italian Socialist Party, allied with the centre-right coalition. Craxi was elected president of the new party, while Martelli was nominated spokesperson. Martelli left politics in 2004, while Craxi led a split from the NPSI in 2006 and launched The Italian Socialists, which was a founding component of the revived Italian Socialist Party The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Social democracy, social democratic and Democrat ...
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Ugo Intini
Ugo Intini (30 June 1941 – 12 February 2024) was an Italian journalist and politician. Political career A long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and close aide of Bettino Craxi, Intini was spokesman of the PSI and representative of the party in the Socialist International. He founded the Socialist Party (PS) in 1996 and joined the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) in 1998. Intini led the electoral list of PSI in the region Liguria after Sandro Pertini and was elected three times in the Chamber of Deputies from 1983 to 1994. In 2001, he was elected again a deputy in the single-member district of East Genoa, a position he maintained until 2006. He served twice in the centre-left coalition-led government: from 2000 to 2001 as undersecretary to the Foreign Affairs and from 2006 to 2008 as Deputy Minister. From 1981 to 1987, Intini was editor of ''Avanti!'', the daily newspaper of the PSI. Among his many books, there is a history of this newspaper, whose editors ...
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Socialist Party (Italy, 1996)
The Socialist Party (, PS) was a tiny social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was founded in 1996 by a group of former members of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) who had been close allies of Bettino Craxi, former Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the PSI from 1976 to 1992, and who did not join the Italian Socialists of Enrico Boselli. They included Ugo Intini, Enrico Manca, Gianni De Michelis, Fabrizio Cicchitto, Margherita Boniver, Donato Robilotta and Craxi's son, Bobo. In 2000, the Movement of Social Democratic Rebirth of Luigi Preti also joined the PS, that changed its name to Socialist Party – Social Democracy (''Partito Socialista – Socialdemocrazia''), even if the two parties never formally merged. In 2001, the PS merged with the Socialist League and other splinter groups from the SDI to form the New Italian Socialist Party. De Michelis was elected secretary of the new party upon its foundation, which was viewed by many as the direct continu ...
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Labour Federation (Italy)
The Labour Federation (, FL) was a Social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. The party's leader and founder was Valdo Spini. The FL was founded by members of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in November 1994, a few days before the PSI's dissolution, and entered into a close alliance with the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). At its foundation the FL included eleven deputies and seven senators. In the 1996 Italian general election, 1996 general election, in which the party was a component of The Olive Tree (Italy), The Olive Tree, the party obtained six deputies and five senators. In February 1998 the FL was merged with the PDS and some minor parties from the Centre-left coalition (Italy), centre-left coalition (the Social Christians, Republican Left (Italy), Republican Left, etc.) into the Democrats of the Left (DS). Those who opposed the merger joined the Italian Socialists (SI), formed by the bulk of the PSI four years ...
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Giorgio Carta (politician)
Giorgio Carta (16 January 1938 – 28 October 2020) was an Italian doctor and politician. Biography Giorgio Carta was born in Jerzu. He graduated in medicine in 1964 and obtained three specialist qualifications: cardiology, gastroenterology and occupational medicine. He published 19 scientific papers, achieving national accreditation certificates as a primary cardiologist. He worked as a sports doctor and professor of medicine applied to sport; from 1983 he was also a journalist. He was a member of the PSDI National Directorate, as manager of the Health and Social Assistance sector. He served as Sardinian regional councillor for thirteen years (1979−92), as regional minister for Labor, Tourism and the Environment. He was also municipal councilor of Cagliari from 1970 to 1979, and, for the same city, he served as municipal health minister (1970−71), deputy Mayor and minister of the annona in 1973. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1992 general election with 13, ...
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Gian Franco Schietroma
Gian Franco Schietroma (born 19 October 1950 in Rome) is an Italian politician and lawyer. He is the son of the former Senator and Minister of Public Function Dante Schietroma. Biography Gian Franco Schietroma graduated in law, with 110/110 cum laude, from the "La Sapienza" University of Rome. He worked as a lawyer and in the 1990-1991 period he was President of the Lawyers' order of Frosinone. He was honorary Deputy Praetor of Frosinone from 1980 to 1989. In 1990 he was elected to the Regional Council of Lazio and served as Regional Assessor for Public Works and subsequently for Culture, while from 1995 to 1998 he was municipal councillor of Frosinone. On 29 January 1995 Schietroma was appointed Secretary of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party; he held the office until 1998, when the PSDI joined the Italian Democratic Socialists along with the Italian Socialists. In the 1996 general election he was elected Deputy; in that legislature he served as Undersecretary for Financ ...
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Ottaviano Del Turco
Ottaviano Del Turco (7 November 1944 – 22 August 2024) was an Italian politician. Biography Early life Del Turco was born in Collelongo on 7 November 1944. Career After a career in trade unionism in the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), Del Turco rose to the top of Bettino Craxi's Italian Socialist Party (PSI) before it was swept away in the Tangentopoli scandals of 1992–94. Del Turco was the president of the Antimafia Commission from December 1996 to May 2000. He was Minister of Finance in the cabinet led by the then prime minister Giuliano Amato from 2000 to 2001. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 on the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) ticket and sat with the Party of European Socialists group. On 20 July 2004, he was elected chair of the committee on employment and social affairs at the parliament. On 4 April 2005, he won the election as president of his native Abruzzo as candidate for centre-left coalition The Union, and on 1 May ...
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Roberto Villetti
Roberto Villetti (24 August 1944 – 14 September 2019) was an Italian politician. A long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), he was vice-secretary of the Italian Socialists (SI) from 1994 to 1998. Since 1998 he is vice-secretary of the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI). He was deputy from 1996 to 2008; from 2006 to 2008 he was leader of the Rose in the Fist group in the Italian Chamber of Deputies The Chamber of Deputies () is the lower house of the bicameral Italian Parliament, the upper house being the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senate of the Republic. The two houses together form a perfect bicameral system, meaning they perform .... References 1944 births 2019 deaths Politicians from Rome Italian Socialist Party politicians Italian Socialists politicians Italian Democratic Socialists politicians Italian Socialist Party (2007) politicians Deputies of Legislature XIV of Italy Deputies of Legislature XV of Italy Deputies of Legislature ...
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