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62-476: (Redirected from Sinistra Giovanile ) Former Italian political party Left Youth Sinistra Giovanile [REDACTED] Founded 22 December 1990 Dissolved 14 October 2007 Merged into Young Democrats Ideology Democratic socialism Social democracy Mother party Democratic Party of the Left (1991–1998) Democrats of

124-699: A grand coalition including the PdL, Civic Choice (SC) and the UdC. Letta was the first Democrat to become prime minister. After Bersani's resignation from party secretary on 20 April 2013, the PD remained without a leader for two weeks. On 11 May 2013, Guglielmo Epifani was elected secretary at the national assembly of the party with 85.8% of vote. Epifani, secretary-general of the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), Italy's largest trade union, from 2002 to 2010,

186-626: A presidential election triggered by President Giorgio Napolitano 's resignation. During Renzi's first year as prime minister, several MPs defected from other parties to join the PD. They comprised splinters from SEL (most of whom led by Gennaro Migliore , see Freedom and Rights ), SC (notably including Stefania Giannini , Pietro Ichino and Andrea Romano ) and the M5S. Consequently, the party increased its parliamentary numbers to 311 deputies and 114 senators by April 2015. Otherwise, Sergio Cofferati , Giuseppe Civati and Stefano Fassina left. They were

248-457: A New Olive Tree coalition comprising the PD, IdV and SEL. The three party leaders agreed in what was soon dubbed the pact of Vasto. The pact was broken after the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi as Prime Minister in November 2011, as the PD gave external support to Mario Monti 's technocratic government , along with the PdL and the UdC. A year after the pact of Vasto, the relations between

310-460: A betrayal of his mandate. Four individuals filed their bid for becoming secretary, namely Matteo Renzi , Pippo Civati , Gianni Cuperlo and Gianni Pittella . The leadership race started with voting by party members in local conventions (7–17 November). Renzi came first with 45.3%, followed by Cuperlo (39.4%), Civati (9.4%) and Pittella (5.8%). The first three were admitted to the open primary. On 8 December, Renzi, who won in all regions but

372-756: A broad centre-left coalition, but only minor parties showed interest. As a result, the alliance comprised Together (a list notably including the Italian Socialist Party and the Federation of the Greens ), the Popular Civic List (notably including Popular Alternative , Italy of Values , the Centrists for Europe and Solidary Democracy ) and More Europe (including the Italian Radicals , Forza Europa and

434-709: A former centrist deputy of the DS, in an appeal in Il Foglio newspaper in April 2013. The term Partito Democratico was used for the first time in a formal context by the DL and DS members of the Regional Council of Veneto , who chose to form a joint group named The Olive Tree – Venetian Democratic Party ( L'Ulivo – Partito Democratico Veneto ) in March 2007. The 2006 election result, anticipated by

496-558: A joint list named United in the Olive Tree which ran in the election and garnered 31.1% of the vote. The project was later abandoned in 2005 by the SDI. In the 2006 general election , the list obtained 31.3% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies. The project of a Democratic Party was often mentioned by Prodi as the natural evolution of The Olive Tree and was bluntly envisioned by Michele Salvati ,

558-447: A new phase, the national board decided to put an end to Letta's government on 13 February and form a new one led by Renzi as the latter had proposed. Subsequently, Renzi was sworn in as prime minister on 22 February at the head of an identical coalition. On 28 February, the PD officially joined the PES as a full member, ending a decade-long debate. In the 2014 European Parliament election ,

620-530: A process aimed at uniting left-wing and centre-left forces into a single political entity was started. In 1995, Romano Prodi , a former minister of Industry on behalf of the left-wing faction of Christian Democracy (DC), entered politics and founded The Olive Tree ( L'Ulivo ), a centre-left coalition including the PDS, the Italian People's Party (PPI), the Federation of the Greens (FdV), Italian Renewal (RI),

682-591: A result, 16 regions out of 20, including all those of central and southern Italy, were governed by the centre-left while the opposition Lega Nord led Veneto and Lombardy and propped up a centre-right government in Liguria. After a huge defeat in the 2016 constitutional referendum (59.9% no, 40.1% yes), Renzi resigned as prime minister in December 2016 and was replaced by fellow Democrat Paolo Gentiloni , whose government 's composition and coalition were very similar to those of

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744-451: A subsequent open primary were called for October, with Franceschini, Pier Luigi Bersani and Ignazio Marino were running for the leadership, while a fourth candidate, Rutigliano, was excluded because of lack of signatures. In local conventions, a 56.4% of party members voted and Bersani was by far the most voted candidate with 55.1% of the vote, largely ahead of Franceschini (37.0%) and Marino (7.9%). Three million people participated in

806-450: A traditionally conservative region where due to divisions within the centre-right Nichi Vendola of SEL was re-elected with the PD's support. In September 2011, Bersani was invited by Antonio Di Pietro 's IdV to take part to its annual late summer convention in Vasto , Abruzzo . Bersani, who had been accused by Di Pietro of avoiding him to court the centre-right UdC, proposed the formation of

868-534: Is Elly Schlein , elected in the 2023 leadership election , while the party's president is Stefano Bonaccini . The PD was established in 2007 upon the merger of various centre-left parties which had been part of The Olive Tree list in the 2006 Italian general election , mainly the social democratic Democrats of the Left (DS), successor of the Italian Communist Party and the Democratic Party of

930-595: Is Freedom – The Daisy (DL). In the summer of 2003, Prodi suggested that centre-left forces should participate in the 2004 European Parliament election with a common list. Whereas the Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR) and the far-left parties refused, four parties accepted, namely the DS, DL, the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) and the European Republicans Movement (MRE). These launched

992-532: Is different from Wikidata Articles containing Italian-language text Young Democrats (Italy) The Young Democrats was officially founded on 21 November 2010, three years after the foundation of the Democratic Party. In the first primary election, held in March 2010, Fausto Raciti was elected secretary of the GD, with 93,686 votes, 77% of the total. On 20 July 2014, Raciti resigned, and Andrea Baldini

1054-517: The 2012 regional election , Rosario Crocetta (member of the PD) was elected president with 30.5% of the vote thanks to the support of the UdC, but the coalition failed to secure an outright majority in the Regional Assembly. For the first time in 50 years, a left-wing politician had the chance to govern Sicily. On 25 November, Bersani came ahead in the first round of the primary election with 44.9% of

1116-706: The Italian Socialists (SI) and Democratic Union (UD). The coalition in alliance with the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) won the 1996 general election and Prodi became prime minister. In February 1998, the PDS merged with minor social democratic parties ( Labour Federation and Social Christians , among others) to become the Democrats of the Left (DS), while in March 2002 the PPI, RI and The Democrats (Prodi's own party, launched in 1999) became Democracy

1178-868: The 2,400 members of the party's constituent assembly; each voter could choose between a number of lists, each of them associated with a candidate for secretary. All candidates interested in running for the PD leadership had to be associated with one of the founding parties and present at least 2,000 valid signatures by 30 July 2007. A total of ten candidates officially registered their candidacy: Walter Veltroni , Rosy Bindi , Enrico Letta , Furio Colombo , Marco Pannella , Antonio Di Pietro , Mario Adinolfi , Pier Giorgio Gawronski , Jacopo Schettini , Lucio Cangini and Amerigo Rutigliano . Of these, Pannella and Di Pietro were rejected because of their involvement in external parties (the Radicals and Italy of Values respectively) whereas Cangini and Rutigliano did not manage to present

1240-451: The 2005 primary election in which over four million voters endorsed Prodi as candidate for prime minister, gave a push to the project of a unified centre-left party. Eight parties agreed to merge into the PD: While the DL agreed to the merger with virtually no resistance, the DS experienced a more heated final congress. On 19 April 2007, approximately 75% of party members voted in support of

1302-433: The Chamber. As a result, Bersani, who refused any agreement with the PdL and was rejected by the M5S, failed to form a government. After an agreement with the centre-right parties, Bersani put forward Franco Marini as his party's candidate for President to succeed to Giorgio Napolitano on 17 April. However, Renzi, several Democratic delegates and SEL did not support Marini. On 18 April, Marini received just 521 votes in

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1364-473: The European Parliament , 2019–2022), Francesco Rutelli , Pietro Grasso and Carlo Calenda . As of 2024, four regions have Democratic presidents: Emilia-Romagna , Tuscany , Apulia and Campania . Following Tangentopoli scandals, the end of the so-called First Republic and the transformation of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) into the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS) in the early 1990s,

1426-506: The Left (1998–2007) International affiliation International Union of Socialist Youth The Youth Left ( Italian : Sinistra Giovanile , or SG ) was the youth wing of the Democratic Party of the Left from 1991 to 1998 and the Democrats of the Left from 1998 until 2007, when the Democratic Party was founded and the SG joined the Young Democrats . National secretaries of

1488-574: The Left , which was folded with several social democratic parties ( Labour Federation and Social Christians , among others) in 1998, as well as the largely Catholic -inspired Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL), a merger of the Italian People's Party (heir of the Christian Democracy party's left wing), The Democrats and Italian Renewal in 2002. While the party has also been influenced by Christian left , social liberalism and Third Way , especially under Matteo Renzi 's leadership,

1550-453: The PD and IdV had become tense. IdV and its leader, Antonio Di Pietro, were thus excluded from the coalition talks led by Bersani. To these talks were instead invited SEL led by Nichi Vendola and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) led by Riccardo Nencini . The talks resulted on 13 October 2012 in the Pact of Democrats and Progressives (later known as Italy. Common Good ) and produced the rules for

1612-724: The PD and formed Article 1 – Democratic and Progressive Movement (MDP), along with splinters from the Italian Left (SI) led by Arturo Scotto . Most of the splinters as well as Scotto were former Democrats of the Left . In December 2017, the MDP, SI and Possible would launch Free and Equal (LeU) under the leadership of the President of the Senate Pietro Grasso (another PD splinter). In local conventions, Renzi came first (66.7%), Orlando second (25.3%) and Emiliano third (8.0%). In

1674-559: The PD decided to form a less diverse coalition. The party invited the Radicals and the Socialist Party (PS) to join its lists, but only the Radicals accepted and formed an alliance with Italy of Values (IdV) which was set to join the PD after the election. The PD included many notable candidates and new faces in its lists and Walter Veltroni , who tried to present the PD as the party of the renewal in contrast both with Silvio Berlusconi and

1736-471: The PD moved closer to social liberalism. Under latter leaders, especially Schlein, whose upbringing is influenced by the radical left, environmentalism and green politics , the party has moved to the left. Between 2013 and 2018, the Council of Ministers was led by three successive prime ministers of Italy from the PD, namely Letta (2013–2014), Renzi (2014–2016) and Paolo Gentiloni (2016–2018). The PD

1798-449: The PD through local policy events, campaigning or by attending events and social gatherings. The GD holds a range of additional national events, including fringe sessions at the Democratic Party's annual conference. Democratic Party (Italy) The Democratic Party ( Italian : Partito Democratico , PD ) is a social democratic political party in Italy . The party's secretary

1860-487: The PD was forced to support IdV candidate Carlo Costantini . In October, Veltroni, who distanced from Di Pietro many times, declared that "on some issues he [Di Pietro] is distant from the democratic language of the centre-left". After a crushing defeat in the February 2009 Sardinian regional election , Walter Veltroni resigned as party secretary. His deputy Dario Franceschini took over as interim party secretary to guide

1922-534: The PD would organise the next congress of the Party of European Socialists (PES) in Rome in early 2014, sparked protests among some of the party's Christian democrats, who opposed PES membership. Epifani was little more than a secretary pro tempore and in fact frequently repeated that he was not going to run for a full term as secretary in the leadership race that would take place in late 2013, saying that his candidacy would be

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1984-613: The PD-led coalition achieved similar results to 2018 and returned to the opposition. Prominent Democrats include former leaders Walter Veltroni , Dario Franceschini , Nicola Zingaretti and Enrico Letta . Former members have included Giorgio Napolitano ( President of Italy , 2006–2015), Sergio Mattarella (President of Italy, 2015–present), four Prime Ministers ( Romano Prodi , Giuliano Amato , Massimo D'Alema and Renzi), three former leaders ( Pier Luigi Bersani , Guglielmo Epifani and, again, Renzi), as well as David Sassoli ( President of

2046-720: The Renzi Cabinet. In February 2017, Renzi resigned also as PD secretary to run in the 2017 leadership election . Renzi, Andrea Orlando (one of the leaders of the Remake Italy faction; the other leader Matteo Orfini was the party's president and supported Renzi) and Michele Emiliano were the three contenders for the party's leadership. Subsequently, a substantial group of leftists (24 deputies, 14 senators and 3 MEPs), led by Enrico Rossi ( Democratic Socialists ) and Roberto Speranza ( Reformist Area ), backed by Massimo D'Alema , Pier Luigi Bersani and Guglielmo Epifani , left

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2170-590: The Socialist Party (PS) and the Greens in its lists, and proposed a similar pact to Democratic Left (SD). However, the Socialists, the Greens and Democratic Left decided instead to contest the election together as a new alliance called Left and Freedom which failed to achieve the 4% threshold required to return any MEPs, but damaged the PD, which gained 26.1% of the vote, returning 21 MEPs. The national convention and

2232-623: The acronym PD in colours reminiscent of the Italian tricolour flag (green, white and red). In the words of Ermete Realacci , green represents the ecologist and social-liberal cultures, white the Catholic solidarity and red the socialist and social democratic traditions. The green-white-red idea was coined by Schettini during his campaign. After the premature fall of the Prodi II Cabinet in January 2008,

2294-407: The election of Bersani, perceived by some moderates as an old-style social democrat, Francesco Rutelli (a long-time critic of the party's course) and other centrists and liberals within the PD left to form a new centrist party, named Alliance for Italy (ApI). Following March 2009, and especially after Bersani's victory, many deputies, senators, one MEP and several regional/local councillors left

2356-449: The election, the PD and its coalition fared much worse than expected and according to pollsters predictions. The PD won just 25.4% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies (−8.0% from 2008) and the centre-left coalition narrowly won the majority in the house over the centre-right coalition (29.5% to 29.3%). Even worse, in the Senate the PD and its allies failed to get an outright majority due to

2418-867: The first and most notable splinters among the ranks of the party's internal left, but several others followed either Civati (who launched Possible ) or Fassina (who launched Future to the Left and Italian Left ) in the following months. By May 2016, the PD's parliamentary numbers had gone down to 303 deputies and 114 senators. In the 2015 regional elections , Democratic presidents were elected (or re-elected) in five regions out of seven, namely Enrico Rossi in Tuscany , Luca Ceriscioli in Marche , Catiuscia Marini in Umbria , Vincenzo De Luca in Campania and Michele Emiliano in Apulia . As

2480-425: The first ballot, short of the 672 needed, as more than 200 centre-left delegates rebelled. On 19 April, the PD and SEL selected Romano Prodi to be their candidate in the fourth ballot. Despite his candidacy had received unanimous support among the two parties' delegates, Prodi obtained only 395 votes in the fourth ballot as more than 100 centre-left electors did not vote for him. After the vote, Prodi pulled out of

2542-425: The merger of the DS into the PD. The left-wing opposition, led by Fabio Mussi , obtained just 15% of the support within the party. A third motion, presented by Gavino Angius and supportive of the PD only within the Party of European Socialists (PES), obtained 10% of the vote. Both Mussi and Angius refused to join the PD and, following the congress, founded a new party called Democratic Left (SD). On 22 May 2007,

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2604-410: The necessary 2,000 valid signatures for the 9 pm deadline and Colombo's candidacy was instead made into hiatus to give him 48 additional hours to integrate the required documentation. Colombo later decided to retire his candidacy citing his impossibility to fit with all the requirements. All rejected candidates had the chance against the decision in 48 hours' time, with Pannella and Rutigliano being

2666-461: The only two candidates to appeal against it. Both were rejected on 3 August. On 14 October 2007, Veltroni was elected leader with about 75% of the national votes in an open primary attended by over three million voters. Veltroni was proclaimed secretary during a party's constituent assembly held in Milan on 28 October 2007. On 21 November, the new logo was unveiled. It depicts an olive branch and

2728-453: The open primary on 25 October 2009; Bersani was elected new secretary of the party with about 53% of the vote, ahead of Franceschini with 34% and Marino with 13%. On 7 November, during the first meeting of the new national assembly, Bersani was declared secretary, Rosy Bindi was elected party president (with Marina Sereni and Ivan Scalfarotto vice presidents), Enrico Letta deputy secretary and Antonio Misiani treasurer. In reaction to

2790-405: The open primary on 30 April, Renzi won 69.2% of the vote as opposed to Orlando's 20.0% and Emiliano's 10.9%. On 7 May, Renzi was sworn in as secretary again, with Maurizio Martina as deputy and Orfini was confirmed president. In the 2017 Sicilian regional election , Crocetta did not stand and the PD-led coalition was defeated. In the run-up of the 2018 general election , the PD tried to form

2852-404: The organising committee of the nascent party was formed. It consisted of 45 members, mainly politicians from the two aforementioned major parties and the leaders of the other six minor parties. Also leading external figures such as Giuliano Amato , Marcello De Cecco , Gad Lerner , Carlo Petrini and Tullia Zevi were included. On 18 June, the committee decided the rules for the open election of

2914-463: The party obtained 40.8% of the vote and 31 seats. The party's score was virtually 15 percentage points up from five years before and the best result for an Italian party in a nationwide election since the 1958 general election , when Christian Democracy won 42.4%. The PD was also the largest national party within the Parliament in its 8th term . Following his party's success, Renzi was able to secure

2976-421: The party to join the UdC, ApI and other minor parties. They included many Rutelliani and most Teodems . In March 2010, a big round of regional elections , involving eleven regions, took place. The PD lost four regions to the centre-right ( Piedmont , Lazio , Campania and Calabria ), and maintained its hold on six ( Liguria , Emilia-Romagna , Tuscany , Marche , Umbria and Basilicata ), plus Apulia ,

3038-417: The party toward the selection of a new stable leader. Franceschini was elected by the party's national assembly with 1,047 votes out of 1,258. His only opponent Arturo Parisi won a mere 92 votes. Franceschini was the first former Christian Democrat to lead the party. The 2009 European Parliament election was an important test for the PD. Prior to the election, the PD considered offering hospitality to

3100-534: The post of High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy within the European Commission for Federica Mogherini , his minister of Foreign Affairs. In January 2015, Sergio Mattarella , a veteran left-wing Christian Democrat and founding member of the PD, whose candidacy had been proposed by Renzi and unanimously endorsed by the party's delegates, was elected President of Italy during

3162-549: The previous centre-left government, ran an intense and modern campaign which led him to visit all provinces of Italy , but that was not enough. In the 2008 general election on 13–14 April 2008, the PD–IdV coalition won 37.5% of the vote and was defeated by the centre-right coalition , composed of The People of Freedom (PdL), the Lega Nord and the Movement for Autonomy (46.8%). The PD

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3224-413: The race and Bersani resigned as party secretary. Bindi, the party's president, also resigned. The day after, Napolitano accepted to stand again for election and was re-elected President with the support of most parliamentary parties. On 28 April, Enrico Letta , the party's deputy secretary and former Christian Democrat , was sworn in as Prime Minister of Italy at the head of a government based around

3286-488: The rise of the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the centre-right's victory in key regions such as Lombardy , Veneto , Campania , Apulia , Calabria and Sicily (the centre-right was awarded of the majority premium in those regions, leaving the centre-left with just a handful of elects there). Consequently, the PD-led coalition was unable to govern alone because it lacked a majority in the Senate which has equal power to

3348-406: The shadow cabinet. The early months after the election were a difficult time for the PD and Veltroni, whose leadership was weakened by the growing influence of internal factions because of the popularity of Berlusconi and the dramatic rise of IdV in opinion polls. IdV became a strong competitor of the PD and the relations between the two parties became tense. In the 2008 Abruzzo regional election ,

3410-712: The upcoming centre-left primary election , during which the PD–SEL–PSI joint candidate for prime minister in the 2013 general election would be selected. In the primary, the strongest challenge to Bersani was posed by a fellow Democrat, the 37-year-old mayor of Florence Matteo Renzi , a liberal moderniser, who had officially launched his leadership bid on 13 September 2012 in Verona , Veneto . Bersani launched his own bid on 14 October in his hometown Bettola , north-western Emilia . Other candidates included Nichi Vendola (SEL), Bruno Tabacci (ApI) and Laura Puppato (PD). In

3472-648: The vote, Renzi came second with 35.5%, followed by Vendola (15.6%), Puppato (2.6%) and Tabacci (1.4%). Bersani did better in the South while Renzi prevailed in Tuscany , Umbria and Marche . In the subsequent run-off, on 2 December, Bersani trounced Renzi 60.9% to 39.1% by winning in each and every single region but Tuscany, where Renzi won 54.9% of the vote. The PD secretary did particularly well in Lazio (67.8%), Campania (69.4%), Apulia (71.4%), Basilicata (71.7%), Calabria (74.4%), Sicily (66.5%) and Sardinia (73.5%). In

3534-566: Was able to absorb some votes from the parties of the far-left as also IdV did, but lost voters to the Union of the Centre (UdC), ending up with 33.2% of the vote, 217 deputies and 119 senators. After the election Veltroni, who was gratified by the result, formed a shadow cabinet . IdV, excited by its 4.4% which made it the fourth largest party in Parliament, refused to join both the Democratic groups and

3596-407: Was elected as new secretary of the organisation. In the second primary election, held in March 2016, Mattia Zunino was elected secretary of the GD, with 20,561 votes, 83% of the total. The Young Democrats to involve young people in the Democratic Party and ensure that the aspirations of young people are reflected in Democratic policies in power. Young Democrats members are able to get involved in

3658-463: Was elected president as proposed by Renzi. On 20 January 2014, Cuperlo criticised the electoral reform proposed by Renzi in agreement with Berlusconi, but the proposal was overwhelmingly approved by the party's national board. The day after the vote, Cuperlo resigned from president. He was later replaced by Matteo Orfini , who hailed from the party's left-wing, but since then became more and more supportive of Renzi. After frequent calls by Renzi for

3720-523: Was stronger in the Centre-North, trounced his opponents with 67.6% of the vote. Cuperlo, whose support was higher in the South, came second with 18.2% while Civati, whose message did well with northern urban and progressive voters, came third with 14.2%. On 15 December, Renzi, whose executive included many young people and a majority of women, was proclaimed secretary by the party's national assembly while Cuperlo

3782-464: Was the first former Socialist to lead the party. Epifani's mission was to lead the party toward a national convention in October. A few weeks after Epifani's election as secretary, the PD had a success in the 2013 local elections , winning in 69 comuni (including Rome and all the other 14 provincial capitals up for election) while the PdL won 22 and the M5S 1. The decision, on 9 November, that

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3844-561: Was the second-largest party in the 2018 Italian general election , where the centre-left coalition came third. The party was returned to government in September 2019 with the Conte II Cabinet , as junior partner of the Five Star Movement , and joined the national unity Draghi Cabinet , comprising also the League and Forza Italia , in February 2021. In the 2022 Italian general election ,

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