Italian Democratic Socialists
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| Italian Democratic Socialists Socialisti Democratici Italiani |
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 Italian National Party |
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| Leader | Enrico Boselli |
| Founded | November 14, 1994 (as Italian Socialists) May 10, 1998 (as Italian Democratic Socialists) |
| Headquarters | Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina, 26 00186 Rome |
| Coalition | The Union |
| Political ideology | Democratic socialism, Social democracy |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| Official newspaper | Avanti!, MondOperaio |
| Website | http://www.sdionline.it |
| See also | Politics of Italy |
The Italian Democratic Socialists (Italian: Socialisti Democratici Italiani, SDI) is a small social-democratic party of moderate-left policies, heir of the old Italian Socialist Party, born in 1998 by the convergence of the Italian Socialists and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. The party leader is Enrico Boselli.
In the 2004 European Parliament election, two SDI MEPs were elected on the Olive Tree ticket.
The SDI is no longer part of the Olive Tree coalition, as it decided to found a joint socialist and libertarian list named Rose in the Fist together with the Italian Radicals.
In the 2006 general election the list scored only 2.6%, much lesser than the electoral sum of the two parties before the alliace (Radicals alone took 2.3% in the 2004 European Parliament election). It seemed that the Radicals lost voters in their strongholds in the North to Forza Italia, while the Socialists lost ground in the South, where they are more radicated, to the Olive Tree parties (see electoral results of the Rose in the Fist).
