Benedetto "Bettino" Craxi was an Italian politician,leader of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) from 1976 to 1993,and the 45th prime minister of Italy from 1983 to 1987. He was the first PSI member to become prime minister and the third from a socialist party to hold the office. He led the third-longest government in the Italian Republic and he is considered one of the most powerful and prominent politicians of the First Italian Republic.
The New Italian Socialist Party or New PSI,more recently styled as Liberal Socialists –NPSI,is a political party in Italy which professes a social-democratic ideology and claims to be the successor to the historical Italian Socialist Party,which was disbanded after the judiciary tempest of the early 1990s.
The Italian Democratic Socialists were a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was the direct continuation of the Italian Socialists,the legal successor of the historical Italian Socialist Party. The Italian Democratic Socialist Party,the other long-time Italian social-democratic party,was merged into it along with other minor parties. The party's long-time leader was Enrico Boselli,a former president of Emilia-Romagna (1990–1993). In 2007,the SDI were merged with other descendants of the PSI to form the modern-day Italian Socialist Party.
The Italian Republican Party is a political party in Italy established in 1895,which makes it the oldest political party still active in the country. The PRI identifies with 19th-century classical radicalism,as well as Mazzinianism,and its modern incarnation is associated with liberalism,social liberalism,and centrism. The PRI has old roots and a long history that began with a left-wing position,being the heir of the Historical Far Left and claiming descent from the political thought of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi. With the rise of the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) to its left,it was associated with centre-left politics. The early PRI was also known for its anti-clerical,anti-monarchist,republican,and later anti-fascist stances. While maintaining those traits,during the second half of the 20th century the party moved towards the centre on the left–right political spectrum,becoming increasingly economically liberal.
The history of the Italian Republic concerns the events relating to the history of Italy that have occurred since 1946,when Italy became a republic. The Italian republican history is generally divided into two phases,the so-called First and Second Republic.
The 2006 Italian general election was held on 9 and 10 April 2006. Romano Prodi,leader of the centre-left coalition The Union,narrowly defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,leader of the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms. Initial exit polls suggested a victory for Prodi,but the results narrowed as the count progressed. On 11 April 2006,Prodi declared victory;Berlusconi never conceded defeat and an ensuing dispute formed.
Fausto Bertinotti is an Italian politician who led the Communist Refoundation Party from 1994 to 2006. On 29 April 2006,after the centre-left coalition's victory in the Italian general election,he was elected President of the Chamber of Deputies,a position he held until 2008.
Gianni De Michelis was an Italian politician,prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI),who served as minister in many Italian governments in the 1980s and early 1990s.
The Italian Socialist Party was a social-democratic and democratic-socialist political party in Italy,whose history stretched for longer than a century,making it one of the longest-living parties of the country. Founded in Genoa in 1892,the PSI was from the beginning a big tent of Italy's political left and socialism,ranging from the revolutionary socialism of Andrea Costa to the Marxist-inspired reformist socialism of Filippo Turati and the anarchism of Anna Kuliscioff. Under Turati's leadership,the party was a frequent ally of the Italian Republican Party and the Italian Radical Party at the parliamentary level,while lately entering in dialogue with the remnants of the Historical Left and the Liberal Union during Giovanni Giolitti's governments to ensure representation for the labour movement and the working class. In the 1900s and 1910s,the PSI achieved significant electoral success,becoming Italy's first party in 1919 and during the country's Biennio Rosso in 1921,when it was victim of violent paramilitary activities from the far right,and was not able to move the country in the revolutionary direction it wanted.
The Italian Socialists was a minor social-democratic political party in Italy.
The Italian Socialists were a minor social-democratic political party in Italy active from 1994 to 1998. The party was the legal successor of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI),following its dissolution by the 47th Party Congress due to the severe financial crisis following the Tangentopoli scandal. A minoritarian group of the congress,who proposed an autonomist and centrist solution against the PSI dissolution,instead founded the Reformist Socialist Party.
Claudio Martelli is an Italian politician. He was the right-hand man of Bettino Craxi,the socialist Prime Minister from 1983 to 1987.
The Socialist Party was a tiny social-democratic political party in Italy.
The Socialist League was a tiny social-democratic party in Italy,founded by Bobo Craxi on 10 May 2000.
The Italian Socialist Party is a social-democratic 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,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.
Chiara Moroni is an Italian politician,daughter of Sergio Moroni,a Socialist politician who killed himself during Tangentopoli.
Left Ecology Freedom was a democratic socialist political party in Italy whose bulk was formed by former members of the Communist Refoundation Party.
The Pentapartito,commonly shortened to CAF,refers to the coalition government of five Italian political parties that formed between June 1981 and April 1991. The pro-European and Atlanticist coalition comprised the Christian Democracy (DC),the Italian Socialist Party (PSI),Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI),Italian Liberal Party (PLI),and Italian Republican Party (PRI).
Craxism is a political ideology based on the thought of Italian socialist leader Bettino Craxi,who was Prime Minister of Italy during the 1980s. Craxism was the informal doctrine of the Italian Socialist Party from 1976 to 1994,the year when both the First Republic and the PSI itself were dissolved due to corruption scandals.
The centre-left coalition is an alliance of political parties in Italy active,under several forms and names,since 1995 when The Olive Tree was formed under the leadership of Romano Prodi. The centre-left coalition has ruled the country for more than 15 years between 1996 and 2022.
