Italian Socialist Party (2007)
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Italian Socialist Party
Partito Socialista Italiano |
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| Secretary | Riccardo Nencini |
| President | Carlo Vizzini |
| Coordinator | Gianfranco Schietroma |
| Spokesperson | Maria Pisani |
| Founded | 5 October 2007 |
| Merger of | Italian Democratic Socialists, minor parties |
| Headquarters | Via Santa Caterina da Siena 57, 00186 Rome |
| Newspaper | Avanti!, MondOperaio |
| Membership (2012) | 23,600 |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Democratic Party |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| European Parliament group | Party of European Socialists (2007–2009) |
| Chamber of Deputies |
3 / 630
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| Senate |
3 / 315
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| European Parliament |
0 / 73
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| Website | |
| www.partitosocialista.it | |
The Italian Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI) is a social-democraticpolitical party in Italy.
The party was founded in 2007–2008 by the merger of six minor social-democratic parties/groups: the Italian Democratic Socialists, Democracy and Socialism, The Italian Socialists, the Socialist Party, the Association for the Rose in the Fist and Socialism is Freedom. Until October 2009, the party was known as the Socialist Party (Partito Socialista, PS).
Since July 2008 Riccardo Nencini, of Tuscany, has been party leader; elected senator with the Democratic Party in 2013, he has been deputy minister of Infrastructures and Transports in Matteo Renzi's cabinet since 2014.
A merger of all the parties coming from the tradition of the late Italian Socialist Party (PSI), disbanded in 1994 as a result of Tangentopoli scandals, was initially proposed by Enrico Boselli during a congress of the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) in April 2007. In that occasion the party decided not to join the Democratic Party (PD) and called for a "Socialist Constituent Assembly" (Costituente Socialista) aimed at uniting all Socialists instead.
Some minor parties and associations, including The Italian Socialists of Bobo Craxi, Socialism is Freedom of Rino Formica and the Association for the Rose in the Fist of Lanfranco Turci immediately welcomed the proposal by Enrico Boselli. In June 2007 the Socialist Party – New PSI (NPSI) split in two groups: the first, led by Stefano Caldoro, opted to stay within the House of Freedoms; the second, led by Gianni De Michelis, agreed to join the Constituent Assembly. The former retained the NPSI identity, while the latter formed the Socialist Party. At its foundation in October 2007 the PS was joined also by Democracy and Socialism, a group of former Democrats of the Left coming from Democratic Left.
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