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. In January 1994

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returned to the leadership of the Italian Republican Party (PRI), replacing

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, and the party's national council decided to leave Democratic Alliance (AD) – of which the PRI had been a founding member – and to enter the Pact for Italy coalition. Therefore Bogi, Giuseppe Ayala,

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and others left the PRI and launched the "Republican Left", which continued to be part of AD and joined the larger Alliance of Progressives. In February 1998 the SR was merged, along with the Labour Federation, the Social Christians, the Unitarian Communists, the

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and the Democratic Federation, into the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), thus founding the Democrats of the Left (DS). After that, the SR became an internal faction within the DS.

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