Italian Left
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Italian Left
Sinistra Italiana |
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| Secretary | TBD |
| Founders |
Nichi Vendola Nicola Fratoianni Stefano Fassina Sergio Cofferati |
| Founded | 7 November 2015 |
| Merger of |
Left Ecology Freedom Future to the Left minor groups |
| Headquarters | Via Arenula, 29 00186 Rome |
| Newspaper | Left |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism Social democracy Green politics Anti-austerity |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| European affiliation | none |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | GUE/NGL |
| Colours | Red |
| Chamber of Deputies |
32 / 630
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| Senate |
8 / 315
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| European Parliament |
2 / 73
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| Regional Government |
0 / 20
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| Website | |
| www |
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Italian Left (Italian: Sinistra Italiana, SI) is a left-wing federation of political parties in Italy, which will be transformed into a full-fledged political party in February 2017. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies (full name: Italian Left – Left Ecology Freedom), mainly including Left Ecology Freedom, dissidents from the Democratic Party (see Future to the Left) and splinters from the Five Star Movement.
Notable Italian Leftists include Nichi Vendola, Nicola Fratoianni, Arturo Scotto, Loredana De Petris, Stefano Fassina, Alfredo D'Attorre, Sergio Cofferati Laura Boldrini (President of the Chamber of Deputies), Marco Doria (mayor of Genoa) and Leoluca Orlando (mayor of Palermo). Scotto is the party's floor leader in the Chamber of Deputies, De Petris in the Senate.
In June 2015 Fassina, a long-time critic of Matteo Renzi, leader of the Democratic Party (PD) and Prime Minister, left the party, followed by his long-time ally Monica Gregori. In July, during a convention, Fassina launched Future to the Left, which aimed at being an embryonic new party to the left of the PD, open to other Democratic splinters, such as those gathered in Giuseppe Civati's Possible, and Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), a political party led by Nichi Vendola.
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