| Socialist Party Partito Socialista |
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|---|---|
 Italian National Proposed Party |
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| Founded | January 2008 (scheduled) |
| Coalition | The Union |
| Political ideology | Social democracy |
| International affiliation | none |
| European affiliation | none |
| European Parliament Group | Party of European Socialists |
| Website | http://www.partitosocialista.it |
| See also | Politics of Italy |
The Socialist Party (Partito Socialista, PS) is a future Italian political party. The party was officially unveiled during an assembly held in Rome on 5 and 6 October 2007. The founding convention is expected to be held in January 2008. A number of minor parties and associations will merge in the new party: the Italian Democratic Socialists, Democracy and Socialism, The Italian Socialists, the Socialist Party–De Michelis, Socialism is Freedom and the Association for the Rose in the Fist.
History
A merger of all former social-democratic parties in Italy was initially proposed by Enrico Boselli during the April 2007 congress of the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI), during which the party decident not to join the Democratic Party, asking other parties to join them in a "Socialist Constituent Assembly" (Costituente Socialista) with the aim to create a new Italian party inspired to social democracy and based on the tradition of the old Italian Socialist Party (PSI). Some minor parties and associations, including The Italian Socialists of Bobo Craxi, Socialism is Freedom led by Rino Formica and the Association for the Rose in the Fist of Lanfranco Turci (former member of the Democrats of the Left) joined from the beginning the proposal by Enrico Boselli. In June 2007, the New Italian Socialist Party (NPSI) split in two groups: the first, led by Stefano Caldoro, opted to stay within the House of Freedoms; the second, led by Gianni De Michelis, agreed to join the Constituent Assembly from July instead. The former retained the NPSI identity, while De Michelis' faction adopted the name Socialist Party. The Socialist Constituent Assembly met for the first time on 14 July 2007 in Rome, and was attended also by former Democrats of the Left and then-Democratic Left members Gavino Angius (leader of Democracy and Socialism), Franco Grillini and Valdo Spini, as well as Roberto Barbieri, he himself a former DS member, Cinzia Dato, a former Liberal from Democracy is Freedom – Daisy (DL), and Luigi Angeletti, trade unionist and national secretary of the Italian Labour Union (UIL). In September 2007 Angius, Grillini and Spini quitted Democratic Left citing their opposition to build an alliance with a number of Italian far left parties and instead joined the Socialist Constituent Assembly.
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