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United Socialists – PSI () was a minor
social-democratic Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democratic approach toward achieving social equality. In modern practice, socia ...
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 ...
. Its leaders were
Bobo Craxi Vittorio Michele Craxi, commonly known as Bobo Craxi (born 6 August 1964), is an Italian politician, son of the former Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi and brother of Stefania Craxi. Biography Formerly a prominent member of the Italian S ...
and
Saverio Zavettieri Saverio Zavettieri (born 21 June 1942) was an Italian politician and trade unionist. Biography Trade unionist of the CGIL since 1960, Zavattieri entered politics in 1980. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1983, among the ranks of ...
.


History

The party, which was launched at a convention in Rome on 10 October 2009, would emerge from the merger of
The Italian Socialists The Italian Socialists (''I Socialisti Italiani'') was a minor social democracy, social-democratic list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. History The party was founded on 7 February 2006 as the result of a split from the N ...
, the faction of 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 ...
(PS) around Craxi (who was the founder of The Italian Socialists in 2005) and possibly some other figures from the late
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 ...
. Craxi had earlier left the PS because he did not agree with its merger into
Left Ecology Freedom Left Ecology Freedom (, SEL) was a democratic socialist political party in Italy whose bulk was formed by former members of the Communist Refoundation Party. The party's leader was Nichi Vendola, a former President of Apulia. On 17 December 201 ...
(SEL). However, in November, the PS refused to merge into SEL too. Subsequently, Craxi renewed his party membership.
In 2011, the party merged into the
Italian Reformists The Italian Reformists (''Riformisti Italiani'') is a political party/association in Italy. The group was launched on 26 November 2011 by Stefania Craxi, deputy of the centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) party, undersecretary of Foreign Affa ...
.


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Official website
2009 establishments in Italy 2012 disestablishments in Italy Defunct political parties in Italy Defunct social democratic parties in Italy Political parties disestablished in 2012 Political parties established in 2009 {{Italy-party-stub