The Reformist Socialist Party (''Partito Socialista Riformista'', PSR) was a tiny
social-democratic
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political party in Italy
This is a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861.
Throughout history, numerous political parties have been operating in Italy. Since World War II no party has ever gained enough support to govern alone; thus, partie ...
.
It was founded after the ''
Tangentopoli
(; ) was a nationwide judicial investigation into political corruption in Italy held in the early 1990s, resulting in the demise of the First Italian Republic and the disappearance of many political parties. Some politicians and industry leade ...
'' scandal, in opposition to the decision of
Ottaviano Del Turco
Ottaviano Del Turco (7 November 1944 – 22 August 2024) was an Italian politician.
Biography Early life
Del Turco was born in Collelongo on 7 November 1944.
Career
After a career in trade unionism in the Italian General Confederation of Labo ...
, then secretary of the
Italian Socialist Party
The Italian Socialist Party (, PSI) was a Social democracy, social democratic and Democratic socialism, democratic socialist political party in Italy, whose history stretched for longer than a century, making it one of the longest-living parti ...
(PSI), to place it within the centre-left
Alliance of Progressives
The Alliance of Progressives () was a left-wing political alliance of parties in Italy formed in 1994, with relevant predecessors at local level in 1993. The leader of the alliance was Achille Occhetto. The alliance was a predecessor of the mod ...
coalition, dominated by 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 ...
. Its leading members included
Fabrizio Cicchitto
Fabrizio Cicchitto (born 26 October 1940) is an Italian politician, whose career has followed a trajectory from radical socialism to centre-right reformism.
Biography
Fabrizio Cicchitto entered politics in the early 1960s, supporting the Ricc ...
and
Enrico Manca
Enrico Manca (27 November 1931 – 5 July 2011) was an Italian politician.
Biography
Marca was born in Rome and graduated with a degree in law from the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1959, Manca joined the Italian state broadcaster RAI and fr ...
. The party merged into the
Socialist Party
Socialist Party is the name of many different political parties around the world. All of these parties claim to uphold some form of socialism, though they may have very different interpretations of what "socialism" means. Statistically, most of th ...
in 1996.
Fabrizio Cicchitto, who was once a left-winger close to
Riccardo Lombardi
Riccardo Lombardi (16 August 1901 – 18 September 1984) was an Italian politician.
Early life
Lombardi was born in Regalbuto, in the province of Enna (now in the province of Catania), in 1901. He studied at the Pennisi College of Acireale. Af ...
in the old PSI,
became the deputy-coordinator of
Forza Italia
(FI; ) was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy, with Christian democratic,Chiara Moroni, , Carocci, Rome 2008 liberalOreste Massari, ''I partiti politici nelle democrazie contempoiranee'', Laterza, Rome-Bari 2004 (esp ...
and later a member of
The People of Freedom
The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later t ...
, while Enrico Manca, who had been a centrist linked to
Bettino Craxi
Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi ( ; ; ; 24 February 1934 – 19 January 2000) was an Italian politician and statesman, leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993, and the 45th Prime Minister of Italy, prime minister of Italy from 1 ...
, joined
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (, DL), commonly known simply as The Daisy (''La Margherita''), was a Centrism, centrist List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. The party was formed from the merger of three parties with ...
in 2004 and the
Democratic Party, remaining there until his death in 2011.
Leadership
*Secretary:
Fabrizio Cicchitto
Fabrizio Cicchitto (born 26 October 1940) is an Italian politician, whose career has followed a trajectory from radical socialism to centre-right reformism.
Biography
Fabrizio Cicchitto entered politics in the early 1960s, supporting the Ricc ...
(1994–1996)
*President:
Enrico Manca
Enrico Manca (27 November 1931 – 5 July 2011) was an Italian politician.
Biography
Marca was born in Rome and graduated with a degree in law from the Sapienza University of Rome. In 1959, Manca joined the Italian state broadcaster RAI and fr ...
(1994–1996)
See also
*
Italian Reformist Socialist Party
The Italian Reformist Socialist Party (, PSRI) was a social-democratic political party in Italy.
History
It was formed in 1912 by those leading reformist socialists who had been expelled from the Italian Socialist Party because of their desire ...
References
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