Reformist Socialist Party

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Reformist Socialist Party
Partito Socialista Riformista
President Enrico Manca
Secretary Fabrizio Cicchitto
Founded13 November 1994 (1994-11-13)
Dissolved31 January 1996 (1996-01-31)
Split from Italian Socialist Party
Merged into Socialist Party
Ideology Social democracy
Political position Centre

The Reformist Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Riformista, PSR) was a tiny social-democratic political party in Italy.

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It was founded after the Tangentopoli scandal, in opposition to the decision of Ottaviano Del Turco, then secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), to place it within the centre-left Alliance of Progressives coalition, dominated by the Democratic Party of the Left. Its leading members included Fabrizio Cicchitto and Enrico Manca. [1] The party merged into the Socialist Party in 1996.

Fabrizio Cicchitto, who was a left-winger close to Riccardo Lombardi [2] in the old PSI became the deputy-coordinator of Forza Italia and later member of The People of Freedom, while Enrico Manca, who was a centrist linked to Bettino Craxi, joined Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy in 2004 and the Democratic Party until his death in 2011.

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