Democratic Left (Italy)

Democratic Left

Sinistra Democratica
Democratic Left Sinistra Democratica
Coordinator	Claudio Fava
President	Fabio Mussi
Founded	5 May 2007
Dissolved	22–24 October 2010
Split from	Democrats of the Left
Merged into	Left Ecology Freedom
Headquarters	Via Palermo, 12; 00184 Rome
Newspaper	Aprile per la Sinistra
Membership	unknown
Ideology	Democratic socialism; Green politics
Political position	Left-wing
National affiliation	Rainbow Left (2008); Left Ecology Freedom (2009-10)
European Parliament group	Party of European Socialists (2007–09)
Website
	www.sinistra-democratica.it
	Politics of Italy; Political parties; Elections;

Democratic Left (Italian: Sinistra Democratica, SD), whose complete name was Democratic Left. For European Socialism (Sinistra Democratica. Per il Socialismo Europeo), was a democratic-socialist political party in Italy.

SD was founded on 5 May 2007 by splinters of the Democrats of the Left (DS) led by Fabio Mussi and Gavino Angius, who opposed the merger of the DS with Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy to form the Democratic Party.^[2] According to its leading members at its foundation, SD was to be not a party but a movement, with the goal to unite the entire Italian left from Communist Refoundation Party to the Italian Democratic Socialists.

On 22–24 October 2010, SD was merged into Left Ecology Freedom.

^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2008). "Italy". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
^ Daniela Giannetti; Michael Laver (2008). "Party cohesion, party discipline, and party factions in Italy". In Daniela Giannetti; Kenneth Benoit (eds.). Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-134-04288-3.

[1] Nordsieck, Wolfram (2008). "Italy". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 15 June 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2019.

[GiannettiLaver2008-2] Daniela Giannetti; Michael Laver (2008). "Party cohesion, party discipline, and party factions in Italy". In Daniela Giannetti; Kenneth Benoit (eds.). Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments. Routledge. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-134-04288-3.

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