Italian Socialist Party (2007)

Italian Socialist Party
Partito Socialista Italiano
SecretaryEnzo Maraio
PresidentLuigi Incarnato
Founded5 October 2007
Merger ofItalian Democratic Socialists
New Italian Socialist Party (faction)[1]
The Italian Socialists (faction)
Other minor organisations
HeadquartersVia Santa Caterina da Siena 57, 00186 Rome[2]
NewspaperAvanti!
Mondoperaio
Youth wingFederation of Young Socialists
Membership (2016)20,600[3]
IdeologySocial democracy
Political positionCentre-left
National affiliationCoalition
Centre-left coalition
Electoral list
Left and Freedom (2009)
Democratic Party (2013–2014)
Together (2017–2018)
More Europe (2019)
Italia Viva (2019–2022)
PD–IDP (2022)
United States of Europe (2024)
European affiliationParty of European Socialists
European Parliament groupParty of European Socialists (2007–2009)
International affiliationSocialist International
Colors  Red
Chamber of Deputies
0 / 400
Senate
0 / 200
European Parliament
0 / 73
Regional
Councils
3 / 896
Website
partitosocialista.it

The Italian Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI) is a social-democratic[4] political party in Italy. The party was founded in 2007–2008 by the merger of the following social-democratic parties and groups: Enrico Boselli's Italian Democratic Socialists (legal successor of the Italian Socialist Party), the faction of the New Italian Socialist Party led by Gianni De Michelis, The Italian Socialists of Bobo Craxi, Democracy and Socialism of Gavino Angius, the Association for the Rose in the Fist of Lanfranco Turci, Socialism is Freedom of Rino Formica and some other minor organisations. Until October 2009, the party was known as Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista, PS).

From 2008 to 2019, Riccardo Nencini from Tuscany has been party leader. Elected senator with the Democratic Party in 2013 and re-elected in 2018, he was Deputy Minister of Infrastructures and Transports from 2014 to 2019 (Renzi Cabinet and Gentiloni Cabinet). In March 2019, Nencini stepped down as secretary and was replaced by Enzo Maraio, from Campania. Since September 2019, the PSI sits within the parliamentary group of Italia Viva in the Senate.[5]

  1. ^ Only the left-wing faction led by Gianni De Michelis and Mauro Del Bue
  2. ^ "Partito Socialista - Contatti". Archived from the original on 23 November 2013. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
  3. ^ "Psi. Riunione segreteria, Tesseramento 2016: 20.600 iscritti e indizione congresso nazionale". Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
  4. ^ Archived copy Archived 15 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Italia Viva avrà il suo gruppo al Senato grazie al socialista Nencini". L'HuffPost. 19 September 2019.