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Italian Democratic Socialist Party Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano
Former Italian National Party
Political ideology	Social Democracy
Membership	110,000 (1989) max: 308,211 (1975) [1]
Website	N/A
See also	Politics of Italy Political parties in Italy Elections in Italy

The Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano, PSDI) was an Italian centre-left party.

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 joined 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-shadowed 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.

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)

 

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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