Democratic Party of the Left

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Democratic Party of the Left
Partito democratico della Sinistra

Former Italian National Party
Political ideology Democratic socialism
Membership max: 989,708 (1991)
min: 613,412 (1998)
Official newspaper L'Unità
Website N/A
See also Politics of Italy

Political parties in Italy
Elections in Italy

The Democratic Party of the Left (Partito democratico della Sinistra, PDS) was the evolution in a socialist direction of the Italian Communist Party, or PCI. It was founded by Achille Occhetto, last secretary of the PCI and first of the PDS.

The logo of the PDS consisted mainly of an oak tree that retained, in a small circle at the tree's roots, the previous symbol of the Italian Communist Party; this was done both to indicate the party's roots, and to avoid the Communist Refoundation Party making usage of the symbol immediately after the split between the two parties.

The PDS later merged with some smaller left-wing movements to form the Democrats of the Left, dropping the hammer and sickle for the classic social-democratic symbol, the red rose. The former PCI symbol was then taken over by the Party of Italian Communists. In 1997 Massimo D'Alema called for the party to become more of a European social democratic party. However, the PDS was not recognised as a European social democratic force.[dubious – discuss]

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Historical Italian political parties (active parties: simple version, complete version)

Communist: Communist Party of Italy, Italian Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Party of Italy, Union of Italian Communists (Marxist-Leninist), Proletarian Democracy, Proletarian Unity Party, Organisation of Communists of Italy (Marxist-Leninists), Movement of Unitarian Communists, Popular Democracy (United Left)
Socialist and social-democratic: Italian Socialist Party, Italian Reform Socialist Party, United Socialist Party (1922), Labour Democratic Party, Italian Socialist Workers' Party, United Socialist Party (1949), Italian Democratic Socialist Party, Unified Socialist Party, Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, Democratic Party of the Left, Movement for Democracy – The Net, Italian Socialists, Socialist League, Reform Socialist Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Unity, Democrats of the Left, Reformist Alliance
Green: Rainbow Greens, Green Lists
Social liberal: Action Party, Radical Party, Democratic Alliance, Democratic Union, The Democrats, Democracy is Freedom – Daisy, European Republicans Movement
Liberal: Italian Liberal Party, Uomo Qualunque Front, Union of the Centre, Liberal Party, Democratic Republicans
Centrist: Patto Segni, Italian Renewal, Middle-of-the-Road Italy, Southern Democratic Party, United Consumers
Regionalist: Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol, Fronte Marco Polo, Sicilian Alliance, Sardinia Project
Christian democratic: Italian People's Party (1919), Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party (1994), Christian Democratic Centre, United Christian Democrats, Christian Democrats for the Republic, Democratic Union for the Republic, European Democracy
Conservative: Monarchist National Party, People's Monarchist Party, Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity, National Democracy
Fascist and neo-fascist: National Fascist Party, Italian Social Movement–National Right, National Vanguard, National Front

Leftist coalition: Popular Democratic Front, Proletarian Democracy, Alliance of Progressives, The Sunflower, Socialists United for Europe, Together with the Union, Federation of the Olive Tree
Liberal coalition: National Democratic Union, National Bloc
Centrist coalition: Pact for Italy, Pact of Democrats, Pact for the Autonomies
Christian democratic coalition: Whiteflower, Christian Democratic Federation
Centre-right coalition: Pole of Freedoms, Pole of Good Government
Conservative coalition: National Bloc of Freedom
Neo-fascist coalition: Social Alternative

Liste civetta: For the Abolition of Scorporo, New Country
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