Italian Democratic Socialist Party (historical)
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| Italian Democratic Socialist Party Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano |
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 Former Italian National Party |
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| Political ideology | Social Democracy |
| Membership | 110,000 (1989) max: 308,211 (1975) [1] |
| Website | N/A |
| See also | Politics of Italy |
The Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano, PSDI) was an Italian centre-left party.
[edit] History
The party was founded in 1952 by the union of two parties: the Italian Socialist Workers' Party and the United Socialist Party (PSU). Both of them broke away from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) respectively in 1947 and 1949, due to the cooperation with the Communist Party by the latter.
In 1963-1968 the party joined PSI to form the Unified Socialist Party, but in 1968, after a dismaying result at the elections of that year, it left the new party, returning to the PSDI denomination in 1971.
The longstanding leader of PSDI was Giuseppe Saragat, who was President of the Italian Republic from 1964 to 1971.
From 1980 onwards it joins DC, PSI, PRI and PLI in the Pentapartito which ruled the country until 1994. The party's role in the coalition was minimal and was over-shodowed by the more powerful Italian Socialist Party.
The party was involved in the corruption scandals known collectively as Tangentopoli, and finally joined the Italian Socialists, heir of the Italian Socialist Party, to form the Italian Democratic Socialists in 1998. By then most members and voters of the party have joined other parties: Forza Italia (as Carlo Vizzini), the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (as Enrico Ferri) and later Democracy is Freedom - Daisy (as Franco Bruno).
The party was re-established in 2004 with the same name, Italian Democratic Socialist Party.
[edit] Party leaders
This is a list of PSDI's national secretaries. Those until 1952 were the national secretaries of the Italian Socialist Workers' Party, predecessor of PSDI.
- Giuseppe Saragat (1947-48)
- Alberto Simonini (1948)
- Ugo Guido Mondolfo (1949)
- Ludovico D'Aragona (1949)
- Giuseppe Saragat (1949-52)
- Ezio Vigorelli (1952)
- Giuseppe Romita (1952)
- Giuseppe Saragat (1952-54)
- Gian Matteo Matteotti (1954-57)
- Giuseppe Saragat (1957-64)
- Mario Tanassi (1964-66)
- unification with the Italian Socialist Party, Mario Tanassi co-scretary of the Unified Socialist Party (1966-69)
- Mauro Ferri (1969-72)
- Mario Tanassi (1972)
- Flavio Orlandi (1972-75)
- Mario Tanassi (1975-76)
- Giuseppe Saragat (1976)
- Pier Luigi Romita (1976-78)
- Pietro Longo (1978-85)
- Franco Nicolazzi (1985-88)
- Antonio Cariglia (1988-92)
- Carlo Vizzini (1992-93)
- Enrico Ferri (1993-94)
- Gian Franco Schietroma (1994-98)
- unification with the Italian Socialists, Gian Franco Schietroma deputy-president of the Italian Democratic Socialists (1998-2002)
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