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. Its leader was

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, a former member of the

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(1996–2006) for the

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(PRC) and later

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(2011–2016) as an independent close to

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(SEL).

History

The CP, which was launched in

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by Pisapia and sponsored by

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(leader of the Democratic Centre, CD) and others in February 2017, aimed at unifying the portion of the Italian left interested in forming an alliance with the centre-left

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(PD). In this respect, the CP held a different position from that of

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(SI), into which SEL was folded in 2015–2017, as SI refused to form a national alliance with the PD. A large splinter group from SEL, led by

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and

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, looked set to join forces with Pisapia, but eventually joined the Democratic and Progressive Movement (MDP), a party founded by left-wing splinters from the PD (

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, etc.) on 25 February 2017. The CP was officially founded on 11 March 2017 in

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, in a public convention held at

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. In July 2017 the MDP and the CP organised a joint rally in Rome, but the two parties finally parted ways in October. However, even after this, at least 15 MDP MPs continued to be associated with the CP. In December 2017 the MDP and SI launched Free and Equal (LeU), while the CP was instead trying to organise a pro-PD left-wing grouping, possibly along with the

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(PSI) and the

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. Finally, on 6 December 2017, Pisapia announced that he would not run in the 2018 general election and declared CP's experience over. Some of his allies, including Ferrara, would join LeU, while others, including Smeriglio and Michele Ragosta, would form, in alliance with the PD, the left-wing list that Pisapia once envisioned. The latter group would launch

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, which would join the

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electoral alliance.

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