PSE – Mancini List (''PSE – Lista Mancini'') was a

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active in

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. The party was often referred to as PSE, Italian acronym for the

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and was led by Giacomo Mancini. When the

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(PSI) was dissolved in 1994, Mancini, a long-time politician, secretary of the PSI from 1970 to 1972 and Mayor of

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since 1993, launched the party as a vehicle for local elections. In 1996 Mancini was re-elected Mayor of Cosenza also with the support of the

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(PDS) and other centre-left parties: he won 58.8% of the vote and the combined result of his personal list and the local

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(SI) was 21.1%. Since that point PSE and PDS, which was transformed into the

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(DS) in 1998, formed a pact at the national level, under which Giacomo Mancini Jr., grandson of Mancini, was elected to the

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in 2001. When Mancini died in 2002, Mancini Jr. succeeded him as party leader, while Eva Catizone, was elected Mayor of Cosenza in his place. In 2005 Mancini Jr. left the DS and led the party to a merger with the

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(SDI), while Catizone joined the

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(PDM). In 2006 Mancini Jr. was re-elected to the Chamber for the

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, a joint list of the SDI and the

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, but failed to be re-elected in 2008. In the 2000 regional election the party obtained only 1.5% of the vote in Calabria, but,

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(PS), the successor party of the SDI, and joined

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(FI) and, thus,

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(PdL), declaring that that party was the natural home for social democrats in Italy, as the PS was a failure and the Democratic Party (PD) was too weak in front of populist

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(IdV) and far from being a centre-left reform party. Mancini received more than 60,000 votes but failed to get elected.

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