Socialist Party (Italy, 1996)
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Socialist Party
Partito Socialista |
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| Secretary |
Ugo Intini (1996-1998) Gianni De Michelis (1998-2001) |
| Coordinator | Fabrizio Cicchitto |
| Founded | 24 February 1996 |
| Dissolved | 20 January 2001 |
| Merged into | Socialist Party – New PSI |
| Headquarters | Via di Torre Argentina, 47 00186 Rome |
| Membership (1996) | 46,000 |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| National affiliation | Pole for Freedoms (1999–2001) |
The Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista, PS) was a tiny social-democratic party in Italy.
It was founded in 1996 by a group of former members of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), who had been close allies of Bettino Craxi, leader of the PSI from 1976 to 1992. They included Ugo Intini, Enrico Manca, Gianni De Michelis, Fabrizio Cicchitto, Margherita Boniver, Donato Robilotta and Bettino's son, Bobo. Some of them had been active in the Reformist Socialist Party (PSR) from 1994 to 1996. At the 1996 general election the PS, through the "Socialists for Freedom" list, won 0.5% for the Chamber of Deputies and, with a symbol styled after the one of the PSI, 0.9% for the Senate (2.8% in Campania, 3.3% in Calabria and 1.5% in Sicily).
In 1997 Intini was replaced as secretary by De Michelis, who represented the right-wing of the party and wanted to form an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI). This eventually led in 1998 of a split: Intini and his followers joined the Italian Socialists (SI) and other former Socialists in forming the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI). Bobo Craxi, along with his Socialist League (LS), another spin-off of the PS, joined the SDI for the 1999 European Parliament election too. Following that election, Cicchitto and Boniver joined FI, which had become the main home of former Socialists, instead.
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