Democratic Party (Italy)

Partito Democratico
Partito Democratico
Secretary	Elly Schlein
Ideology	Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
Website
	partitodemocratico.it

The Democratic Party (Italian: Partito Democratico, PD) is a social democratic political party in Italy. Elly Schlein has served as the party's secretary since her election in 2023.^[1]

From the birth of the Conte II Cabinet, the Democratic Party formed a coalition with the Five Star Movement.

Since 2014, the party has been a member of the Center-left Party of European Socialists group in the European Parliament.

History

The party was formed in 2007 from the merger of several centre-left parties. These parties included the Democrats of the Left (which succeeded the Italian Communist Party) and the Democracy is Freedom party (commonly known as The Daisy).

Democratic Party (Italy) Media

Romano Prodi during the commemoration ceremony of the fall of the border Italy - Slovenia on 2004
Walter Veltroni
Dario Franceschini, Italian politician
Pier Luigi Bersani
Enrico Letta al Festival dell'Economia di Trento.
Guglielmo Epifani, Italian politician
Matteo Renzi in 2015
Renzi speaks at Lingotto convention
Nicola Zingaretti in 2022
Enrico Letta

References

↑ "Primarie Pd, vince Zingaretti. Il comitato del neosegretario: "Siamo oltre il 67%. affluenza a 1milione e 800mila, meglio del 2017"". La Repubblica. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2019.

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[1] "Primarie Pd, vince Zingaretti. Il comitato del neosegretario: "Siamo oltre il 67%. affluenza a 1milione e 800mila, meglio del 2017"". La Repubblica. 3 March 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2019.

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