Democratic Left (Italy)
Democratic Left (Italian: Sinistra Democratica, SD) was a democratic socialist political party in Italy.
It was founded on 5 May 2007 by splinters of the Democrats of the Left (DS) centred around Fabio Mussi and Gavino Angius, who opposed the merger of the DS into the Democratic Party. According to its leading members at its foundation, Democratic Left was to be not a party, but a "movement" with the goal to unite the entire Italian left, from Communist Refoundation Party to the Italian Democratic Socialists.
On 22-24 October 2010, Democratic Left merged into Left Ecology Freedom when the latter was transformed from an alliance of left-wing parties into a united party.
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