The Republican Left ( it, Sinistra Repubblicana, SR) was a

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. In January 1994 Giorgio La Malfa returned to the leadership of the

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(PRI), replacing Giorgio Bogi, and the party's national council decided to leave Democratic Alliance (AD) – of which the PRI had been a founding member – and to enter the

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coalition. Therefore Bogi,

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, Libero Gualtieri and others left the PRI and launched the "Republican Left", which continued to be part of AD and joined the larger

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. In February 1998 the SR was merged, along with the Labour Federation, the

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, the Unitarian Communists, the Reformists for Europe and the Democratic Federation, into the

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(PDS), thus founding the

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(DS). After that, the SR became an internal faction within the DS.

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