Republican Left (Italy)
The Republican Left (Italian: Sinistra Repubblicana, SR) was a social-liberal Italian political party founded on 30 January 1994 as a split from the Italian Republican Party (PRI).
After 22 January 1994 Giorgio Malfa had newly assumed the secretariat of the PRI, replacing Giorgio Bogi (until that moment secretary), National Council of the party decided to leave Democratic Alliance - in which the PRI was found - and to enter the Pact for Italy coalition. Therefore Giorgio Bogi, Giuseppe Ayala and Libero Gualtieri left PRI as a reaction, giving birth to a small movement the Republican Left, then one component of the Democratic Alliance.
On 13 February 1998 the Republican Left merged (together with the Labour Federation, Social Christians, Unitarian Communists, Reformists for Europe and Democratic Federation) into the Democratic Party of the Left, thus founding the Democrats of the Left (DS).[1][2] The Republican Left remained a centre-left faction within DS.
References
- ↑ Daniela Giannetti; Rosa Mulé (2007). "The Democratici di Sinistra: In Search of a New Identity". In Anna Bosco. Party Change in Southern Europe. Routledge. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-136-76777-7.
- ↑ Daniela Giannetti; Michael Laver (2008). "Party cohesion, party discipline, and party factions in Europe". In Daniela Giannetti; Kenneth Benoit. Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-134-04288-3.
