èViva (in English: ''It is alive'') was an Italian

left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ...

political party.

History

èViva was founded by

Francesco Laforgia Francesco Laforgia (born 1 February 1978) is an Italian academic and politician. Early life and education Born in Grumo Appula, Laforgia graduated in Economics and Social Sciences at the Bocconi University in 2002, specializing in innovation ec ...

(member of Article One) and Luca Pastorino (member of Possible) on 13 April 2019. The name of the movement has been chosen via an online-poll. For the

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èViva joins the electoral alliance '' The Left'', with

Italian Left Italian Left (, SI) is a left-wing political party in Italy. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies (full name: Italian Left – Left Ecology Freedom), including Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), dissid ...

, Communist Refoundation and the Party of the South. The Left, that joined the

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group, got only the 1.8%, without exceeding the 4%-barrier-threshold, so it didn't get any seat. For the 2020 regional election èViva joined many lists: in

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"Tuscany to the Left" to support Tommaso Fattori, in

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"Earth", in

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"Solidary and Green Apulia" to support

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, in

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"Shared Line" to support Ferruccio Sansa, in

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"Brave Emilia-Romagna" (

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's list) to support Stefano Bonaccini. Following the victory of

at the 2023 Democratic Party leadership election, both Laforgia and Pastorino joined the Democratic Party.

Ideology

èViva was interested in environmental problems and socio-economic disparities. Its ideologies were

democratic socialism Democratic socialism is a left-wing economic ideology, economic and political philosophy that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and wor ...

pro-Europeanism Pro-Europeanism, sometimes called European Unionism, is a political position that favours European integration and membership of the European Union (EU).Krisztina Arató, Petr Kaniok (editors). ''Euroscepticism and European Integration''. Pol ...

and

antifascism Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II, where the Axis powers were op ...

. It joined European Spring, the platform of DiEM25.

Electoral results

European Parliament election

Regional elections

References

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