Italian Left
Italian Left Sinistra Italiana | |
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| Secretary | Nicola Fratoianni |
| President | Laura Lauri |
| Founded | 19 February 2017 (2017-02-19) |
| Merger of | Left Ecology Freedom Future to the Left Venetian Left minor groups |
| Headquarters | Via Arenula, 29 00186 Rome |
| Membership (2017) | 19,346[1] |
| Ideology | Democratic socialism[2] Eco-socialism[2] Green politics |
| Political position | Left-wing |
| National affiliation | Free and Equal |
| European affiliation | Party of the European Left (observer) |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | GUE/NGL (1) S&D (1) |
| Colours | Red |
| Chamber of Deputies | 3 / 630 |
| Senate | 1 / 315 |
| European Parliament | 2 / 73 |
| Regional Councils | 10 / 897 |
| Website | |
| www.sinistraitaliana.si | |
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Italian Left (Italian: Sinistra Italiana, SI) is a left-wing political party in Italy.
SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies (full name: Italian Left – Left Ecology Freedom), mainly including Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), dissidents from the Democratic Party (see Future to the Left) and splinters from the Five Star Movement.[3] At its launch, SI included 32 deputies,[4] who were soon followed by 8 senators (who formed a sub-group within the Mixed Group of the Senate in February 2016) and 2 MEPs. SI was officially formed as a full-fledged party in February 2017, after SEL had chosen to merge into it in December 2016.
The party is led by Nicola Fratoianni. Notable members include Nichi Vendola (former leader of SEL), Loredana De Petris, Stefano Fassina, and Sergio Cofferati. In the aftermath of its founding congress, 18 deputies left the party, leaving it with 13 deputies, 8 senators and 2 MEPs: 17 deputies, led by former group leader Arturo Scotto, joined the brand-new Democratic and Progressive Movement, while Laura Boldrini (President of the Chamber of Deputies) joined the Chamber's Mixed Group.
In late 2017 the party was a founding member of Free and Equal, a left-wing joint list for the 2018 general election.
Contents
1 History
1.1 Background
1.2 Road to the new party
1.3 Founding congress
1.4 Free and Equal
2 Composition
3 Ideology
4 Electoral results
4.1 Italian Parliament
4.2 Regional Councils
5 Leadership
6 Symbols
7 References
8 External links
History
Background
In June 2015 Stefano Fassina, a former deputy minister in the Letta Cabinet, left the Democratic Party (PD) over disagreements with Matteo Renzi, then PD leader and Prime Minister.[5] In doing this he was followed by his long-time ally Monica Gregori.[6] In July, during a convention, Fassina launched Future to the Left (FaS), an incubator of a new left-leaning party, with other movements and breakaway groups such as Possible (P) and Left Ecology Freedom (SEL).
In November one senator (Corradino Mineo)[7] and three more deputies (Alfredo D'Attorre, Carlo Galli and Vincenzo Folino)[8][9] left the party in protest against Renzi. D'Attorre, who holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies,[10] wrote a manifesto for a new "labour" party, which was signed also by the other five MPs and, among other things, read: "The genetic mutation of the PD, born as central force of the Italian centre-left, is unfortunately already completed. The Renzi experience and the introduced mutations won't be a parenthesis. They have already altered in a irreversible way the perception of the PD and its function in the collective imagination".[11] Subsequently, a parliamentary group under the banner of Italian Left was formed in the Chamber of Deputies, whose core was formed by SEL.[12][13]
Road to the new party
In February 2016 SI held its constituent assembly in Rome.[14][15][16] Consequently, SI was established as a sub-group within the Mixed Group in the Senate: five senators of SEL, two dissidents from the Five Star Movement (Fabrizio Bocchino and Francesco Campanella) and one former Democrat (Mineo) joined,[17] while two SEL senators (including Sardinian nationalist Luciano Uras)[18] refused to join and left their party altogether.[19]
Several lists named after SI participated in the 2016 local elections. The party did particularly well in Sesto Fiorentino, a medium-sized city in the metropolitan area of Florence, where it won 17.5% of the vote and its candidate for mayor was elected in the run-off with 65.5%, by beating his Democratic opponent.[20][21]
In December 2016 SEL was dissolved, in order to merge it into SI in early 2017.[22]
Founding congress
In February 2017 SI was officially formed and Nicola Fratoianni was elected as its first secretary.[23][24][25]
Contextually, SI leader in the Chamber of Deputies Arturo Scotto (who was originally a candidate for the leadership [26]Massimiliano Smeriglio), D'Attorre, Galli and Folino led a splinter group into the Democratic and Progressive Movement (MDP), a party formed by left-wing splinters of the PD.[27][28][29]
In March 2017 SI welcomed the four deputies of Possible (P) in its group in the Chamber.[30][31][32] In April Campanella left the party,[33] leaving it with 7 senators.
On 24 June 2017 SI was accepted into the Party of the European Left as an observer member.[34]
Free and Equal
On 3 December 2017 SI, together with the MDP and Possible, established Free and Equal (LeU), a left-wing joint list for the 2018 general election, and chose the President of the Senate and former anti-Mafia prosecutor Pietro Grasso as its leader and candidate for Prime Minister.[35]
In the election, SI obtained three deputies (Fratoianni, Fassina and Erasmo Palazzotto) and one senator (De Petris).
In October SI, focused on forming an alliance with Luigi de Magistris' Popular Coalition for the 2019 European Parliament election, broke with the MDP and LeU.[36][37]
In January 2019, after the MDP's departure,[38] SI returned into LeU's fold and, under the leadership of senator Francesco Laforgia and deputy Luca Pastorino (dissenting members of the MDP and Possible, respectively), the two organisations initiated a collaboration with the goal of forming a joint party by March.[39][40]
Composition
The party's founding members were:
| Party | Main ideology | Leader | Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) | Democratic socialism | Nichi Vendola | [41] | |
Future to the Left (FaS) | Social democracy | Stefano Fassina | [42] | |
Venetian Left (SV) | Communism | Pietrangelo Pettenò | [43] | |
Along these, some youth organisations (including ACT! Agire Costruire Trasformare[44] and TILT[45]), local groups and individuals have joined SI.
Ideology
SI's ideology is a mix of democratic socialism, social democracy and anti-austerity issues.
In his manifesto, D'Attorre wrote that the new party will need to "go beyond the separation between reformists and radicals" and later explained that SI will be Keynesian and opposed to neoliberalism. The coalition's economics adviser is Joseph Stiglitz, a well-known American economist and winner of the Nobel prize in economics, who had already been involved with the Greek Syriza, the Spanish Podemos and the British Labour Party.[46]
Fassina has also proposed a "controlled disintegration of the Eurozone".[47]
Electoral results
Italian Parliament
Chamber of Deputies | |||||
| Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | into Free and Equal | 3.4 | 3 / 630 | – | Nicola Fratoianni |
Senate of the Republic | |||||
| Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2018 | into Free and Equal | 3.3 | 1 / 315 | – | Nicola Fratoianni |
Regional Councils
| Region | Last election | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | # of overall seats won | +/– |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aosta Valley | 2018 | N/A | N/A | 0 / 35 | – |
Piedmont | 2014 | 40,873 (#9) | 2.1 (as SEL) | 2 / 50 |  1 |
Lombardy | 2018 | into Free and Equal | – | 0 / 80 | – |
South Tyrol | 2018 | into Greens | – | 0 / 35 | – |
Trentino | 2018 | into Free and Equal | – | 0 / 35 | – |
Veneto | 2015 | into New Veneto | – | 0 / 51 | – |
Friuli-Venezia Giulia | 2018 | into Left FVG | – | 1 / 49 |  1 |
Emilia-Romagna | 2014 | 38,845 (#6) | 3.2 (as SEL) | 2 / 50 | 1 |
Liguria | 2015 | into Network to the Left | – | 1 / 31 | – |
Tuscany | 2015 | into Tuscany to the Left | – | 2 / 41 | 2 |
Marche | 2015 | into Other Marche | – | 0 / 31 | 1 |
Umbria | 2015 | 9,010 (#9) | 2.6 (as SEL) | 1 / 20 | 1 |
Lazio | 2018 | into Free and Equal | – | 1 / 51 | 2 |
Abruzzo | 2014 | 16,151 (#11) | 2.4 (as SEL) | 1 / 31 | 1 |
Molise | 2018 | into Free and Equal | – | 0 / 21 | 1 |
Campania | 2015 | into Left at Work | – | 0 / 51 | 2 |
Apulia | 2015 | 108,920 (#6) | 6.5 | 4 / 51 | 7 |
Basilicata | 2013 | 12,204 (#7) | 5.2 (as SEL) | 1 / 21 | – |
Calabria | 2014 | into The Left | – | 1 / 30 | 1 |
Sicily | 2017 | 100,583 (#9) (with MDP) | 5.2 | 1 / 70 | 1 |
Sardinia | 2014 | 35,376 (#5) | 5.2 (as SEL) | 4 / 60 | 3 |
Leadership
- Secretary: Nicola Fratoianni (2017–present)
- President: Laura Lauri (2017–present)
- Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Arturo Scotto (2015–2017), Giulio Marcon (2017–present)
- Party Leader in the Senate: Loredana De Petris (2016–present)
Symbols
2015–2016
2016–2017
2017–present
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External links
- Official website
- Parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies – official website
- Website of SI's constituent assembly, Cosmopolitica
Complete recording of the first day of Cosmopolitica from Radio Radicale
Complete recording of the third day of Cosmopolitica from Radio Radicale
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