The Labour Federation (, FL) was a

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. The party's leader and founder was

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. The FL was founded by members of the

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(PSI) in November 1994, a few days before the PSI's dissolution, and entered into a close alliance with the

Democratic Party of the Left The Democratic Party of the Left (, PDS) was a democratic-socialist and social-democratic political party in Italy. Founded in February 1991 as the post-communist evolution of the Italian Communist Party, the party was the largest in the A ...

(PDS). At its foundation the FL included eleven deputies and seven senators. In the 1996 general election, in which the party was a component of The Olive Tree, the party obtained six deputies and five senators. In February 1998 the FL was merged with the PDS and some minor parties from the

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(the

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, Republican Left, etc.) into the

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(DS). Those who opposed the merger joined the

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(SI), formed by the bulk of the PSI four years before, and other Socialist groups in forming the

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(SDI). In 1998, after the merger into the DS, the FL evolved as an internal faction within the party and was renamed Labourites – Liberal Socialists (LS). Carlo Carli was elected president. In 2007 several members of the faction, including Spini, opposed the merger of the DS into the Democratic Party (PD) and later joined the

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(PS). Those who decided to join the PD took part in

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, which the LS faction finally merged into in July 2008.

References

Leadership

*President:

(1994–1998), Carlo Carli (1998–2008)

External links

Official website
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