Left Ecology Freedom

Left Ecology Freedom
Sinistra Ecologia Libertà
PresidentNichi Vendola
Vice PresidentsMaria Luisa Boccia
Fabio Mussi
CoordinatorNicola Fratoianni
Founded16 March 2009 (launched)
22 October 2010 (founded)
Dissolved17 December 2016[1]
Merger ofMovement for the Left
Democratic Left
Unite the Left
Ecologists Association
Socialism and Left
Merged intoItalian Left
Membership (2013)34,279[2]
IdeologyDemocratic socialism[3]
Eco-socialism[3]
Political positionLeft-wing[4]
National affiliationIBC (2013 election)
AET (2014 EP election)
Italian Left (2015–2016)
European Parliament groupEuropean United Left–Nordic Green Left
Colours  Red
Website
www.sinistraecologialiberta.it

Left Ecology Freedom[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] (Italian: Sinistra Ecologia Libertà,[12] SEL) was a democratic socialist[3] 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 2016, SEL dissolved into Italian Left, which was officially launched as a party in early 2017.

  1. ^ RAI News (17 December 2016). "Vendola traghetta Sel nella "Sinistra italiana"". RAI.
  2. ^ "Riccione il 2° Congresso di Sel: La strada giusta tra crisi sociale, della politica e un campo largo, a sinistra, da ricostruire – Sinistra Ecologia Libertà". Sinistra Ecologia Libertà. Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  3. ^ a b c Nordsieck, Wolfram (2015). "Italy". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 15 February 2018.
  4. ^ Alessia Belli (2013). "Limits and potentialities of the Italian and British political systems through the lens of Muslim women in politics". In Jorgen S. Nielsen (ed.). Muslim Political Participation in Europe. Oxford University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-7486-7753-5.
  5. ^ Tom Lansford, ed. (2014). Political Handbook of the World 2014. SAGE Publications. p. 710. ISBN 978-1-4833-3327-4.
  6. ^ Bogdan Patrut; Monica Patrut (2014). Social Media in Politics: Case Studies on the Political Power Or Social Media. Springer. p. 71. ISBN 978-3-319-04666-2.
  7. ^ Central Intelligence Agency (2013). The CIA World Factbook 2014. Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated. p. 1252. ISBN 978-1-62873-451-5.
  8. ^ Ronald Tiersky; Erik Jones (2014). Europe Today: A Twenty-first Century Introduction. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 120. ISBN 978-1-4422-2111-6.
  9. ^ Nichi Vendola, the head of the leftist Left, Ecology, Freedom party was in third place with 14% of the vote - BBC
  10. ^ Nichi Vendola, the openly gay head of the left-wing Left, Ecology, Freedom party was in third place with 15%, while the remaining two candidates, Bruno Tabacci and Laura Puppato, trailed far behind - EurActiv
  11. ^ Members of Left, Ecology, Freedom – a leftwing opposition party – filed an urgent question in the Italian parliament on Thursday, calling on Angelino Alfano, Italy’s interior minister, to explain the deportations and to give assurances of the pair’s safety in view of Kazakhstan’s “disgraceful” human rights record - Financial Times
  12. ^ "Statuto – Sinistra Ecologia Libertà". Sinistra Ecologia Libertà. Retrieved 9 June 2015.