Free and Equal (Italy)
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Free and Equal
Liberi e Uguali |
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| Leader | Pietro Grasso |
| Founded | 3 December 2017 |
| Ideology | Social democracy Democratic socialism Progressivism |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| European affiliation | none |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group |
S&D (5) GUE–NGL (1) |
| Chamber of Deputies |
61 / 630
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| Senate |
23 / 315
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| European Parliament |
6 / 73
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| Regional Government |
1 / 20
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Free and Equal (Italian: Liberi e Uguali, LeU) is a left-wing political alliance of parties in Italy, launched on 3 December 2017 by the Democratic and Progressive Movement, Italian Left and Possible.
The leader of the alliance is Pietro Grasso, President of the Senate and former anti-Mafia prosecutor.
Since the 2013 leadership election of the Democratic Party (PD), which saw the election of centrist Matteo Renzi as secretary, the party was riven by an internal struggle between Renzi's large majority (composed of Renziani, assorted centrists and moderate social democrats) and the left-wing factions, which were very critical of Renzi, his government (2014–2016) and his proposed constitutional reform, which was finally voted down in a constitutional referendum in December 2016.
After the splits of Possible (P) and Future to the Left (FaS), the standard-bearers of Pd's internal left were Enrico Rossi (leader of the Democratic Socialists faction and President of Tuscany) and Roberto Speranza (leader of Reformist Area and former PD leader in the Chamber of Deputies). These were backed by former DS or PD leaders Massimo D'Alema, Pier Luigi Bersani and Guglielmo Epifani. Rossi and Speranza criticised Renzi all the line and were initially joined also by Michele Emiliano, President of Apulia. On 25 February 2017 the dissidents, except Emiliano (who stayed with the PD and unsuccessfully challenged Renzi in the leadership election), and a group of SI splinters led by Arturo Scotto launched the Democratic and Progressive Movement (MDP), a month after the merger of Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), FaS and minor groups into Italian Left (SI).
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