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Democratic Party (Italy)

For the 1913 party, see Democratic Party (Italy, 1913).
Democratic Party
Partito Democratico
AbbreviationPD
SecretaryElly Schlein
PresidentStefano Bonaccini
Founded14 October 2007 (2007-10-14)
Merger of
HeadquartersVia Sant'Andrea delle Fratte 16 (Largo del Nazareno), Rome
Newspaper
  • L'Unità (2007–2014)
  • Europa (2007–2014)
  • Democratica (2017–2019)
  • Immagina (2020–present)
Youth wingYoung Democrats
Membership (1 February 2023)Decrease 150,000[1]
IdeologySocial democracy
Political positionCentre-left[2][3]
National affiliationCentre-left coalition
European affiliationParty of European Socialists
International affiliationProgressive Alliance
European Parliament groupProgressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats
Parliamentary groupPD – Democratic and Progressive Italy
Colours  Red   Green
Chamber of Deputies[a]
68 / 400
Senate[b]
38 / 200
European Parliament[c]
15 / 76
Regional Councils
187 / 896
Conference of Regions
4 / 21
Website
partitodemocratico.it Edit this at Wikidata
  1. ^ One deputy sits within the More Europe subgroup.
  2. ^ One senator sits within the For the Autonomies group.
  3. ^ One MEP is formally independent, another one is also affiliated with Solidary Democracy.

The Democratic Party (Italian: Partito Democratico, PD) is a social-democratic[4][5][6] political party in Italy. The party's secretary 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 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.[7] While the party has also been influenced by Christian left,[6][8] social liberalism[9][10][11] and Third Way, especially under Matteo Renzi's leadership, the PD moved closer to social liberalism.[12][13][14] Under latter leaders, especially Schlein, whose upbringing is influenced by the radical left, environmentalism and green politics, the party has moved to the left.[15][16][17][18][19][20]

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 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. As of 2021, the party heads five regional governments. In the 2022 Italian general election, 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 the European Parliament, 2019–2022), Francesco Rutelli, Pietro Grasso and Carlo Calenda.

  1. ^ Al Pd si è ristretta la base: iscritti a quota 150 mila, erano il doppio due anni fa. la Repubblica. 1 February 2023.
  2. ^ Britannica Educational Publishing (2013). Italy. Britanncia Educational Publishing. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-61530-989-4.
  3. ^ "Il Pd come la Dc? Le coincidenze e le differenze" (in Italian). Europa. 29 May 2014. Archived from the original on 22 November 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2014. ... il Pd ... continua a sostenere la tesi che la sua area di riferimento è la sinistra e il centro sinistra e non-un 'centro che guarda a sinistra' di degasperiana memoria.
  4. ^ Richard Collin; Pamela L. Martin (2012). An Introduction to World Politics: Conflict and Consensus on a Small Planet. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 218. ISBN 978-1-4422-1803-1. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
  5. ^ Gianfranco Pasquino (2016). "Italy". In Jean-Michel de Waele; Fabien Escalona; Mathieu Vieira (eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Social Democracy in the European Union. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-137-29380-0.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Italy". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  7. ^ Hans Slomp (2011). Europe, a Political Profile: An American Companion to European Politics. ABC-CLIO. p. 406. ISBN 978-0-313-39181-1. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
  8. ^ Fotia, Mauro (2011). Il consociativismo infinito: dal centro-sinistra al Partito democratico. Bari. p. 232. ISBN 9788822063182. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ "Salvati: "La maggioranza liberale di sinistra ha rigenerato il partito democratico"". LaStampa.it. May 2017.
  10. ^ "I «liberal» del Pd: intestarsi l'agenda Draghi. La minoranza dem si scalda per il dopo comunali". Il Sole 24 Ore. 14 September 2021.
  11. ^ Dario De Lucia (2017). Dal PCI al PD. Imprimatur editore. ISBN 978-8-82646-230-1.
  12. ^ Vespa, Bruno (2010). Il Cuore e la Spada: Storia politica e romantica dell'Italia unita, 1861–2011. Mondadori. p. 650. ISBN 9788852017285.
  13. ^ Augusto, Giuliano (8 December 2013), "De profundis per il Pd", Rinascita, archived from the original on 1 March 2014
  14. ^ Gioli, Sergio (19 November 2013), "Ultimo treno a sinistra", Quotidiano.net
  15. ^ "Schlein: "Torniamo a fare la sinistra, la costituente deve proseguire" - Politica". 11 June 2023.
  16. ^ "Schlein sposta il Pd a sinistra - ItaliaOggi.it".
  17. ^ "Elly Schlein nuova segretaria, il Pd svolta a sinistra: «Saremo un problema per il governo»". 26 February 2023.
  18. ^ "La scossa di Schlein oltre il Pd: Renzi supera le perplessità e accelera sul partito unico con Calenda". 28 February 2023.
  19. ^ "Con l'elezione di Elly Schlein è finito l'equivoco all'origine del Pd". 6 March 2023.
  20. ^ "Un Pd di sinistra è possibile?". 27 February 2023.