Italian Left
{{Short description|Italian political party}}
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{{Infobox political party
| name = Italian Left
| abbreviation = SI
| logo = Sinistra Italiana.svg
| logo_size = 150px
| colorcode = {{party color|Italian Left}}
| foundation = {{start date and age|2017|2|19|df=y}}
| ideology = {{nowrap|Democratic socialism{{cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/italy.html|title=Italy|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|first=Wolfram|last=Nordsieck|date=2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327123459/http://parties-and-elections.eu/italy.html
|archive-date=27 March 2019|access-date=2 April 2019|url-status=live}}}}
Eco-socialism
| headquarters = via Arenula 29, Rome
| international =
| website = {{Official URL}}
| country = Italy
| native_name = Sinistra Italiana
| leader1_title = Secretary
| leader1_name = Nicola Fratoianni
| leader2_title = President
| leader2_name = Nichi Vendola
| merger = Left Ecology Freedom
and minor groups
| youth_wing = Union of Young People of the Left
| membership_year = 2017
| newspaper =
| position = Left-wing
| national = Greens and Left Alliance (since 2022)
The Left (2019)
Free and Equal (2018–2019)
| european = Now the People
Party of the European Left (observer)
| europarl = The Left in the European Parliament – GUE/NGL{{efn|Between 2017 and 2019, SI had one MEP each in GUE/NGL and S&D}}
| seats1_title = Chamber of Deputies
| seats1 = {{Composition bar|4|400|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}}
| seats2_title = Senate
| seats2 = {{Composition bar|3|200|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}}
| seats3_title = European Parliament{{efn|Ilaria Salis and Mimmo Lucano sit as independents.}}
| seats3 = {{Composition bar|2|76|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}}
| seats4_title = Regional
Councils
| seats4 = {{Composition bar|9|896|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}}
| seats5_title =
| seats5 =
| colours = {{Color box|{{party color|Italian Left}}|border=darkgray}} Red
| footnotes = {{notelist}}
}}
Italian Left ({{langx|it|Sinistra Italiana}}, SI) is a left-wing political party in Italy. SI was launched in November 2015 as a parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies (full name: Italian Left – Left Ecology Freedom), including Left Ecology Freedom (SEL), dissidents from the Democratic Party like Future to the Left, and splinters from the Five Star Movement.Una nuova sinistra, non-una "cosa rossa" http://ilmanifesto.info/una-nuova-sinistra-non-una-cosa-rossa At its launch, SI included 32 deputies,{{cite web|url=http://www.camera.it/leg17/217?idlegislatura=17&idGruppo=2369&idGruppoMisto=&tipoVis=|title=Camera.it - XVII Legislatura - Deputati e Organi Parlamentari - Composizione gruppi Parlamentari|website=www.camera.it}} who were soon followed by eight senators (who formed a sub-group within the Mixed Group of the Senate in February 2016), and two MEPs. SI was officially formed as a full-fledged party in February 2017, after SEL had chosen to merge into it in December 2016.
The party is led by Nicola Fratoianni. Notable founding members included Nichi Vendola (former leader of SEL), Loredana De Petris, Stefano Fassina, and Sergio Cofferati. In the aftermath of its founding congress, 18 deputies left the party, leaving it with 13 deputies, eight senators and 2 MEPs: 17 deputies, led by former group leader Arturo Scotto, joined the brand-new Article One, while Laura Boldrini (President of the Chamber of Deputies) joined the Chamber's Mixed Group. In late 2017, the party was a founding member of Free and Equal, a left-wing joint list for the 2018 general election, and more recently in 2022 founded the Greens and Left Alliance (AVS) with Green Europe.
History
=Background=
In June 2015, Stefano Fassina, a former deputy minister in the Letta Cabinet, left the Democratic Party (PD) over disagreements with Matteo Renzi, then PD leader and Prime Minister.{{Cite web |date=2015-06-23 |title=Fassina dice addio al Pd: "Non ci sono le condizioni per continuare" |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2015/06/23/news/fassina_dice_addio_al_pd_non_ci_sono_le_condizioni_per_continuare_-117553037/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=la Repubblica |language=it}} In doing this he was followed by his long-time ally {{ill|Monica Gregori|it}}.{{Cite web |date=2015-06-24 |title=Fassina, addio al Pd: "Nuovo soggetto politico con Civati e Cofferati" |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2015/06/24/news/fassina_abbandona_il_pd_l_ho_lasciato_ieri_sera_in_un_circolo_di_periferia_-117591749/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=la Repubblica |language=it}} In July, during a convention, Fassina launched Future to the Left (FaS), an incubator of a new left-leaning party, with other movements and breakaway groups such as Possible (Pos) and Left Ecology Freedom (SEL).
In November, one senator (Corradino Mineo){{Cite web |date=2015-10-28 |title=Corradino Mineo lascia il gruppo Pd: "Contro di me inaccettabile processo sommario" |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2015/10/28/news/corradino_mineo_lascia_il_pd_conto_di_me_inaccettabile_processo_sommario_-126069901/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=la Repubblica |language=it}} and three more deputies ({{ill|Alfredo D'Attorre|it}}, {{interlanguage link|Carlo Galli (politician)|lt=Carlo Galli|es|Carlo Galli|it|Carlo Galli (politico)}} and {{ill|Vincenzo Folino|it}}){{Cite web |date=2015-11-04 |title=D'Attorre, Galli e Folino lasciano il Pd: "Non c'è più dialettica nel partito" |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2015/11/04/news/d_attorre_galli_folino_lasciano_il_pd-126619055/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=la Repubblica |language=it}}{{Cite web |date=2015-11-04 |title=Pd: i deputati Galli, Folino e D'Attorre lasciano il partito. "Ora gruppo con Sel, ma non chiamateci 'Cosa rossa'" |url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2015/11/04/pd-i-deputati-galli-folino-e-dattorre-lasciano-il-partito-mutazione-genetica-in-casa-dem-ora-gruppo-con-sel/2188507/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=Il Fatto Quotidiano |language=it-IT}} left the party in protest against Renzi. D'Attorre, who holds a doctorate in philosophy from the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies,{{Cite web |date=2015-11-03 |title=D'Attorre, addio al Pd. Il ritratto del mite "secchione" travolto dal turborenzismo |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/politica/2015/11/03/news/alfredo_d_attorre_ritratto_del_mite_secchione_travolto_dal_turborenzismo-6658937/ |access-date=2024-06-20 |website=HuffPost Italia |language=it}} wrote a manifesto for a new "labour" party, which was signed also by the other five MPs and, which read: "The genetic mutation of the PD, born as central force of the Italian centre-left, is unfortunately already completed. The Renzi experience and the introduced mutations won't be a parenthesis. They have already altered in an irreversible way the perception of the PD and its function in the collective imagination".Alfredo D'Attorre esce dal Pd. Il documento scritto con Fassina e gli altri: "Con Renzi il partito trasformato nel suo ufficio stampa" http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2015/11/04/dattorre-pd-renzi-addio_n_8470840.html Subsequently, a parliamentary group under the banner of Italian Left was formed in the Chamber of Deputies, whose core was formed by SEL.Nasce 'Sinistra italiana', nuovo gruppo di 31 deputati. Fassina: "Siamo alternativi al liberismo da Happy Days di Renzi" http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2015/11/07/nasce-sinistra-italiana-nuovo-gruppo-di-31-deputati-la-diretta-_d02aa4ad-9f47-4615-8e57-4f6136149f73.htmlSi chiamerà "Sinistra italiana": domani Sel e gli ex Pd battezzano il nuovo gruppo 'anti-Renzi' http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2015/11/06/sinistra-italiana-sel-ex-pd_n_8487950.html
=Formation of the party=
{{further|2017 Italian Left leadership election}}
In February 2016, SI held its constituent assembly in Rome.Cosmopolitica, iniziata la costituente di Sinistra italiana http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2016/02/19/cosmopolitica-costituente-sinistra-_n_9275866.htmlPer ora è "Sinistra Italiana" http://ilmanifesto.info/per-ora-e-sinistra-italiana/Cosmopolitica, la prima assemblea di Sinistra italiana: "Dal 2 al 4 dicembre il congresso fondativo" http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2016/02/21/news/sinistra_italiana_unioni_civili-133907371/ Consequently, SI was established as a sub-group within the Mixed Group in the Senate: five senators of SEL, two dissidents from the Five Star Movement ({{ill|Fabrizio Bocchino|it}} and {{ill|Francesco Campanella|it|Francesco Campanella (politico)}}) and one former Democrat (Mineo) joined,{{cite web|url=http://www.senato.it/Leg17/4244|title=senato.it - Senato della Repubblica senato.it - Variazioni nei Gruppi parlamentari|website=www.senato.it}} while two SEL senators (including Sardinian nationalist {{interlanguage link|Luciano Uras|fr|Luciano Uras|it}}){{cite web|url=http://www.sardiniapost.it/politica/sel-divisa-tra-svolta-sovranista-e-sinistra-italiana-geografia-di-una-guerra/|title=Sel divisa tra svolta sovranista e Sinistra italiana: geografia di una guerra - Sardiniapost.it|date=17 November 2015}} refused to join and left their party altogether.{{cite web|url=http://ilmanifesto.info/no-al-verticismo-alla-camera-i-dubbi-sul-nuovo-partito/|title=il manifesto|website=ilmanifesto.info|date=9 February 2016}}
Several lists named after SI participated in the 2016 local elections. The party did particularly well in Sesto Fiorentino, a medium-sized city in the metropolitan area of Florence, where it won 17.5% of the vote and its candidate for mayor was elected in the run-off with 65.5%, by beating his Democratic opponent.{{cite web|url=http://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2016/06/19/news/elezioni_in_toscana_a_sesto_falchi_in_testa_per_il_pd_si_profila_una_storica_sconfitta-142386917/|title=Ballottaggi in Toscana: Pd ko. A Sesto stravince Falchi, Grosseto al centrodestra|date=19 June 2016}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/static/speciale/2016/elezioni/comunali/sesto_fiorentino.html|title=Comune di Sesto Fiorentino - Toscana - Elezioni Comunali - Risultati - Ballottaggio - 5 giugno 2016|website=la Repubblica.it}}
In December 2016, SEL was dissolved, to merge it into SI in early 2017.{{Cite web|url=http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/Vendola-traghetta-Sel-nella-Sinistra-italiana-e971add1-3774-4d16-bae0-d8cc840444a3.html|title=Vendola traghetta Sel nella "Sinistra italiana"|website=rainews|date=17 December 2016 }}
In February 2017, SI was officially formed and Nicola Fratoianni was elected as its first secretary.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lastampa.it/politica/2017/02/19/news/sinistra-italiana-elegge-fratoianni-siamo-la-sinistra-che-fa-il-suo-mestiere-1.34656846|title=Sinistra Italiana elegge Fratoianni: "Siamo la sinistra che fa il suo mestiere"|date=19 February 2017|website=lastampa.it}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2017/02/19/sinistra-italiana-nicola-fratoianni-eletto-segretario-scissione-se-minoranza-dem-vota-fiducia-gentiloni-no-al-dialogo/3401069/|title=Sinistra Italiana, Nicola Fratoianni eletto segretario: "Scissione? Se minoranza dem vota fiducia a Gentiloni, no al dialogo" - Il Fatto Quotidiano|date=19 February 2017}}{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2017/02/19/news/congresso_si_fassina_non_saremo_il_movimento_giovanile_di_d_alema_-158683384/|title=Congresso SI, eletto Fratoianni segretario: "Dialogo con gli scissionisti Pd se non votano fiducia a governo"|date=19 February 2017}}
Contextually, SI leader in the Chamber of Deputies Arturo Scotto (who was originally a candidate for the leadership{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2017/01/23/news/sinistra_italiana_corsa_a_due_per_la_segreteria_scotto_sfida_fratoianni-156719904/|title=Sinistra italiana, corsa a due per la segreteria: Scotto sfida Fratoianni|date=23 January 2017}} Massimiliano Smeriglio), D'Attorre, Galli and Folino led a splinter group into the Article One – Democratic and Progressive Movement (MDP), a party formed by left-wing splinters of the PD.{{cite web|url=http://www.corriere.it/politica/17_febbraio_25/ecco-nome-fuorusciti-pd-democratici-progressisti-4c70ae0c-fb45-11e6-8df2-f7ebe5fcea94.shtml|title=Ecco il nome degli ex Pd: Articolo 1 Movimento dei democratici e progressisti|first=Franco|last=Stefanoni|date=25 February 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/democratici-e-progressisti-nuovo-nome-ex-pd-speranza-lavoro-e-nostra-priorita-AEkjzSd|title="Democratici e progressisti" il nuovo nome degli ex Pd. Speranza: lavoro è nostra priorità|website=Il Sole 24 ORE|date=25 February 2017 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/nasce-movimento-democratici-e-progressisti-1368646.html|title=Nasce il Movimento democratici e progressisti|first=Raffaello|last=Binelli|date=25 February 2017|website=ilGiornale.it}}
In March 2017, SI welcomed the four deputies of Possible (Pos) in its group in the Chamber.{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2017/03/10/news/sinistra_italiana_possibile_civati_capogruppo-160234054|title=Sinistra Italiana e Possibile insieme alla Camera. Ma il primo scoglio è Civati capogruppo|date=10 March 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://left.it/2017/03/09/possibile-e-sinistra-italiana-dopo-i-gruppi-la-lista-unitaria|title=Possibile e Sinistra Italiana. Dopo i gruppi, la lista unitaria - Left|date=9 March 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://ilmanifesto.it/sinistra-italiana-e-possibile-il-nuovo-gruppo|title=il manifesto|website=ilmanifesto.it|date=9 March 2017}} In April, Campanella left the party.{{cite web|url=http://www.corrierequotidiano.it/1.63667/politica/lazio-roma/1097/francesco-campanella-lascia-sinistra-italiana|title=Francesco Campanella lascia Sinistra italiana|date=12 March 2019}}
On 24 June 2017, SI was accepted into the Party of the European Left as an observer member.{{Cite web|url=http://www.listatsipras.eu/2017/06/24/il-partito-della-sinistra-europea-accoglie-come-osservatore-sinistra-italiana/|title=IL PARTITO DELLA SINISTRA EUROPEA accoglie come osservatore SINISTRA ITALIANA|date=24 June 2017|website=L'Altra Europa con Tsipras|access-date=25 June 2017|archive-date=16 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170716120740/http://www.listatsipras.eu/2017/06/24/il-partito-della-sinistra-europea-accoglie-come-osservatore-sinistra-italiana/|url-status=dead}}
=Free and Equal coalition=
On 3 December 2017, SI established Free and Equal (LeU), a left-wing joint list for the 2018 general election, together with the MDP and Possible, and chose the president of the Senate and former anti-Mafia prosecutor Pietro Grasso as its leader and candidate for Prime Minister.{{cite web|url=http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2017/12/03/sinistra-allatlantico-nasce-lista-applauso-accoglie-grasso_bfa05cc2-c60d-4199-a483-be551f50c334.html|title=Liberi e uguali, Grasso: 'Ecco la nuova sinistra' - Politica|date=3 December 2017}}
In the election, SI obtained three deputies (Fratoianni, Fassina and {{ill|Erasmo Palazzotto|arz|
اراسمو پالازوتو|it|Erasmo Palazzotto}}) and one senator (De Petris).
In October, SI focused on forming an alliance with Luigi de Magistris' Popular Coalition for the 2019 European Parliament election, and broke with the MDP and LeU.{{Cite web|url=http://www.dire.it/28-10-2018/257839-goodbye-leu-sinistra-italiana-scarica-mdp-e-guarda-a-de-magistris/|title='Goodbye LeU': Sinistra Italiana scarica Mdp e guarda a De Magistris|date=28 October 2018}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2018/11/15/news/leu_esperienza_finita-211660808/|title=Leu, esperienza finita. Mdp e Sinistra italiana si lasciano. Speranza: "Ora una sinistra di governo"|date=14 November 2018|website=Repubblica.it}}
In January 2019, after the MDP's departure,{{Cite web|url=https://articolo1mdp.it/rassegna-stampa/una-forza-rosso-verde-per-garantire-lalternativa-alla-nuova-destra/|title=Una forza rosso-verde per garantire l'alternativa alla nuova destra|date=10 November 2018 }} SI returned into LeU's fold and, under the leadership of senator Francesco Laforgia and deputy Luca Pastorino (dissenting members of the MDP and Possible, respectively), the two organisations initiated a collaboration with the goal of forming a joint party at some point.{{Cite web|url=https://noisiamoliberieuguali.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/costituita-associazione-per-nascita-partito-di-sinistra/|title=Costituita associazione per nascita partito di sinistra|date=31 January 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://it.blastingnews.com/politica/2019/02/sinistra-a-100-giorni-dalle-europee-si-provano-a-definire-liste-e-alleanze-002843067.html|title=Sinistra, a 100 giorni dalle Europee si provano a definire liste e alleanze|date=13 February 2019|website=Blasting News}}
For the 2019 European Parliament election, SI formed a joint list named The Left with the Communist Refoundation Party and other left-wing and far-left groups. The list obtained a mere 1.8% of the vote, leading Fratoianni to resign from secretary of SI.{{Cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2019/06/01/news/dimissioni_fratoianni_sinistra_italiana-227741358/|title=Europee, Nicola Fratoianni si dimette da segretario di Sinistra Italiana|date=1 June 2019|website=la Repubblica}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/06/01/sinistra-italiana-fratoianni-si-dimette-da-segretario-da-europee-emerso-tema-della-frammentazione-nel-nostro-campo/5225317/|title=Sinistra italiana, Fratoianni si dimette da segretario: "Da Europee emerso tema della frammentazione nel nostro campo"|date=1 June 2019|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano}}
=In and out of government=
In August 2019, tensions grew within the coalition supporting the government, leading to the issuing of a motion of no-confidence by the League.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/world/europe/italy-pm-giuseppe-conte-resign.html|title=Italy's Government Collapses, Turning Chaos Into Crisis|first=Jason|last=Horowitz|newspaper=The New York Times|date=20 August 2019}} During the following government crisis, the M5S and the PD agreed to form a new cabinet together, under outgoing Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/conte-wins-crucial-support-for-new-italian-govt-coalition/2019/08/28/a85203c4-c99c-11e9-9615-8f1a32962e04_story.html|title=Conte wins crucial support for new Italian govt coalition|newspaper=Washington Post}} SI, along with the MDP and the entire LeU, joined Conte's second government, in which SI's {{ill|Giuseppe De Cristofaro|qid=Q3770413}} was appointed undersecretary of University.
In January 2021, Fratoianni was re-elected secretary of the party during an online congress.{{Cite web|url=http://www.sinistraitaliana.si/voti-del-2-congresso-sinistra-italiana-nicola-fratoianni-riconfermato-segretario-nazionale|title = I voti del 2° Congresso di Sinistra Italiana - Nicola Fratoianni riconfermato segretario nazionale}}{{Cite web|url=https://ilmanifesto.it/al-congresso-di-sinistra-italiana-tanta-voglia-di-partecipare-e-di-unire|title = Sinistra italiana va avanti, verso la nuova cosa rosso-verde|date = February 2021}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2021/01/30/news/sinistra_italiana_congresso_non_ci_sciogliamo_leu-285001006|title = Sinistra italiana a congresso. Fratoianni: "Non ci sciogliamo"|date = 30 January 2021}}
In February, after the collapse of the government led by Conte, Mario Draghi was sworn in at the head of a government comprising the main parties of the centre-left and the centre-right. Fratoianni voiced concerns over SI's participation in the government and the party's national assembly voted against the cabinet. However, two out of three MPs, senator De Petris and deputy Palazzotto, announced their intention to vote in favour anyway, splitting the party.{{cite news |title=Governo Draghi, assemblea di Sinistra Italiana: voto contro la fiducia. Ma De Petris e Palazzotto non condividono: "Noi siamo per il sì" |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2021/02/14/news/governo_draghi_sinistra_italiana_voto_contro_fiducia-287591560/ |access-date=14 February 2021 |agency=La Repubblica |date=14 February 2021 |language=Italian}} Subsequently, Palazzotto left the party.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2021/02/17/erasmo-palazzotto-lascia-sinistra-italiana-non-e-una-scelta-facile-ma-e-un-errore-politico-non-votare-la-fiducia-a-draghi/6104881|title = Erasmo Palazzotto lascia Sinistra italiana: "E' un errore politico non votare la fiducia a Draghi"|date = 17 February 2021}}
=2022 general election=
In January 2022, SI and Green Europe (EV) formed a "consultation pact", aimed at co-operating on the 2022 Italian presidential election held in late January.{{cite news |title=Lancio del 'patto di consultazione' per il Quirinale tra Europa Verde e Sinistra Italiana |url=http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/657311/lancio-del-patto-di-consultazione-per-il-quirinale-tra-europa-verde-e-sinistra |access-date=17 January 2022 |work=Radio Radicale |date=10 January 2022 |language=it}} In that context, the two parties decided to jointly support Luigi Manconi, a former lawmaker for the Federation of the Greens, the Democrats of the Left, and the Democratic Party (PD) and expert on human rights issues.{{cite news|url=https://www.dire.it/25-01-2022/701433-live-quirinale-seconda-giornata-di-votazioni-pd-e-iv-bocciano-frattini-presidente-sia-atlantista/|title=Sinistra Italiana ed Europa Verde: 'Voteremo Manconi'|work=Dire|language=it|date=25 January 2022|access-date=25 January 2022}}{{cite news|url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2022/01/19/news/manconi_candidatura_quirinale-334355507/|title=La campagna per Manconi al Quirinale: 'Un presidente contro le ingiustizie'|work=La Repubblica|language=it|date=19 January 2022|access-date=19 January 2022}} In June 2022, SI's national assembly formally approved the alliance with EV.[http://www.conquistedellavoro.it/breaking-news/sinistra-italiana-ok-a-proposta-avvio-alleanza-con-europa-verde-br-sabato-2-luglio-a-roma-presentazione-pubblica-nuove-energie-1.2922747 Sinistra Italiana, ok a proposta di avvio alleanza con Europa Verde], Conquista del Lavoro
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In July 2022, SI and EV held a joint convention in Rome named "New Energies", promoting their cooperation and a unitary electoral program.[https://ilmanifesto.it/nuove-energie-rossoverdi-uniti-per-cambiare-litalia Nuove energie rossoverdi: «Uniti per cambiare l'Italia»], il manifesto The alliance deliberately took inspiration from the New Ecologic and Social People's Union, the left-wing list formed in the run-up of the 2022 French legislative election.[https://www.fanpage.it/politica/patto-sinistra-italiana-europa-verde-per-le-politiche-2023-nasce-la-lista-rossoverde/ Patto Sinistra Italiana-Europa Verde per le politiche 2023: nasce la lista rossoverde], Fanpage Following the fall of Draghi's government, the early dissolution of the Italian Parliament and the calling of the 2022 general election, the AVS was officially launched and its logo presented.[https://twitter.com/ItalyElects/status/1551938426685083650 SI and Verdi revealed their logo for the next general election], Twitter On 6 August 2022, the alliance formalised an electoral agreement with the PD.{{cite web|url=https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/elezioni-letta-prova-chiudere-l-accordo-centrosinistra-oggi-nuovo-incontro-fratoianni-bonelli-AEoK1irB |title=Elezioni, accordo Pd-Verdi-Si. C'è anche Di Maio. Letta: «Se vince Destra costituzione a rischio |publisher=Il Sole 24 ORE |date= 6 August 2022|accessdate=7 August 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ilmattino.it/primopiano/politica/letta_fratoianni_bonelli_ecco_termini_accordo_seggi_cosa_cambia_ora_alleanza-6857585.html |title=Letta-Fratoianni-Bonelli, ecco i termini dell'accordo: al Pd l'80% dei seggi, a Si-Verdi il 20% |publisher=Il Mattino.it |date=13 February 2021 |accessdate=7 August 2022}} AVS elected 12 deputies and four senators, including four deputies and two senators from SI.
The November 2023 congress, in which Fratoianni was re-elected secretary, marked the return to active politics by Nichi Vendola, former SEL leader, who was elected president.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-26 |title=Fratoianni confermato segretario di Sinistra italiana. Vendola neopresidente: "Ritorno attivo alla politica" - Notizie - Ansa.it |url=https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2023/11/26/fratoianni-confermato-segretario-di-sinistra-italiana_616f4bc1-9dec-4830-87de-6177814a47e9.html |access-date=2024-02-13 |website=Agenzia ANSA |language=it}}{{cite web | url=https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/il-ritorno-politica-vendola-campo-come-presidente-sinistra-italiana-AFVTd5qB?refresh_ce=1 | title=Nichi Vendola torna alla politica: Eletto presidente di Sinistra italiana | date=30 November 2023 }}{{Cite web |last=Bozza |first=Claudio |date=2023-11-26 |title=Nichi Vendola eletto presidente di Sinistra italiana: "Torno in politica". Ma non si candida alle Europee, ecco perché |url=https://www.corriere.it/politica/23_novembre_26/nichi-vendola-eletto-presidente-sinistra-italiana-torno-politica-ma-non-si-candida-europee-ecco-perche-85fcda44-8c5f-11ee-8ccd-c15b03fea28c.shtml |access-date=2024-02-13 |website=Corriere della Sera |language=it-IT}}{{Cite web |date=2023-11-26 |title=Nichi Vendola è il nuovo presidente di Sinistra Italiana |url=https://www.ilpost.it/2023/11/26/vendola-presidente-sinistra-italiana/ |access-date=2024-02-13 |website=Il Post |language=it}}
The alliance with EV is renewed for the 2024 European Parliament, where AVS with a 6.78% elected six MEPs, including two candidates from SI, Ilaria Salis and Mimmo Lucano, both of them decide to join The Left group in the EU parliament.
Composition
The party's founding members were:
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Along these, some youth organisations (including ACT! Agire Costruire Trasformare{{Cite web |url=http://www.act-agire.it/index.php/i-blog-act/284-non-la-solita-sinistra-questa-deve-essere-un-altra-storia |title=Non la solita sinistra. Questa deve essere un'altra storia |access-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818003026/http://act-agire.it/index.php/i-blog-act/284-non-la-solita-sinistra-questa-deve-essere-un-altra-storia |archive-date=18 August 2016 |url-status=dead }} and TILT),Mapi Pizzolante a Cosmopolitica https://www.facebook.com/Tiltcamp/videos/vb.211298158909267/1021028537936221/?type=2&theater local groups and individuals have joined SI.
Ideology
SI's ideology is a mix of democratic socialism, social democracy{{Citation needed|date=May 2025}}, and anti-austerity stances. In his manifesto, D'Attorre wrote that the new party would need to "go beyond the separation between reformists and radicals" and later explained that SI would be Keynesian and opposed to neoliberalism{{Citation needed|date=May 2025|reason=Alfredo D'Attorre has never been part of SI, but only of the parliamentary group, and the citation is missing where it is specified that he is talking about SI and not about Art. 1}}. The coalition's economics adviser is Joseph Stiglitz, a well-known American economist and winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, who had already been involved with Syriza in Greece, Podemos in Spain, and the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom.{{Cite web |date=30 October 2015 |title=Sinistra:tra i consulenti anche Stiglitz - Politica |url=https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2015/10/30/sinistratra-i-consulenti-anche-stiglitz_21ae6e26-6522-4147-8b34-7236a242ffbf.html |access-date=9 August 2022 |website=Agenzia ANSA |language=it}} Fassina has also proposed a "controlled disintegration of the Eurozone".{{Cite web |title=European 'alliance of national liberation fronts' emerges to avenge Greek defeat |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11768134/European-alliance-of-national-liberation-fronts-emerges-to-avenge-Greek-defeat.html |access-date=9 August 2022 |website=www.telegraph.co.uk|date=29 July 2015 }}
According to its statute, "Sinistra Italiana is an association that is formed to represent work [...] and it is inextricably linked to the movement for peace and anti-fascism. It fights for a society founded on social equality, on respect for the environment. Its objectives are the full implementation of the Constitution and a democratic and social State of law, in the belief that the freedom of all is the condition and not the limit of everyone's freedom".{{Cite web |title=Statuto e carta di partecipazione |url=https://www.sinistraitaliana.si/congresso/statuto/ |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=Sinistra Italiana |language=it-IT}}
= Work and social policies =
The party strongly supports the reduction of working hours for equal pay,{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |language=en |title=Ecco la nuova sinistra italiana. Fratoianni: "Puntiamo su patrimoniale e riduzione dell'orario di lavoro" |url=https://notizie.tiscali.it/politica/articoli/intervista-fratoianni-sinistra-italiana-proposte/ |website=Tiscali Notizie|date=23 February 2017 }}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=5 May 2020 |title=Riduzione dell'orario di lavoro a parità di salario. Adesso è il momento del coraggio |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/entry/riduzione-dellorario-di-lavoro-a-parita-di-salario-adesso-e-il-momento-del-coraggio_it_5eb14be1c5b62b850f91ebc6/ |website=HuffPost Italia}} the introduction of a minimum wage (of at least 10 euros per hour){{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Recovery plan, nell'ultima versione cancellato il salario minimo legale |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2021/04/27/news/recovery_plan_cancellato_salario_minimo_legale-298340898/ |website=la Repubblica|date=27 April 2021 }}{{cite web|access-date=28 September 2022 |title=Lavoro: Fratoianni, 'in Parlamento proposta salario minimo, cosa aspettiamo?' |url=https://tfnews.it/adnkronos/lavoro-fratoianni-in-parlamento-proposta-salario-minimo-cosa-aspettiamo/}} to combat "poverty, social despair and precariousness"{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Istat: 4,6 mln di persone in povertà assoluta, record dal 2005. Fratoianni: Finiti gli spot di Palazzo Chigi, irrompe la realtà drammatica |url=http://www.sinistraecologialiberta.it/notizie/istat-46-mln-di-persone-in-poverta-assoluta-record-dal-2005/ |website=Sinistra Ecologia Libertà}} (such as the citizenship income to which it's in favour),{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Reddito cittadinanza, Fratoianni: "Continua caccia ai poveracci da parte di chi ha grandi stipendi" {{!}} Video - Affaritaliani.it |url=https://www.affaritaliani.it/coffee/video/politica/reddito-cittadinanza-fratoianni-continua-caccia-ai-poveracci-da-parte-di-chi-ha-grandi-stipendi.html |website=www.affaritaliani.it|date=10 November 2021 }}and the introduction of a representation law to combat exploitation and promote good employment, with the aim of rebuilding a relationship and political representation of labour.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Documenti politici approvati dal 2º Congresso nazionale di Sinistra Italiana |url=https://www.sinistraitaliana.si/documenti-politici-approvati-dal-2-congresso-nazionale-sinistra-italiana/ |website=Sinistra Italiana}}
It supports a greater investment in public health{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni: "Recovery Fund, mettiamo al centro scuola, ricerca, sanità pubblica, transizione ecologica" |url=https://m.politicanews.it/politica-italiana/fratoianni-recovery-fund-mettiamo-al-centro-scuola-ricerca-sanita-pubblica-transizione-ecologica-14976 |website=Politica News}}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Home |url=https://nursetimes.org/ |website=Nurse Times}} and public education (from preschool to university),{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |author=redazione |date=4 March 2020 |title=Fratoianni (Leu): avremmo preferito fosse aggiunta la parola "Pubblica" a Istruzione |url=https://www.orizzontescuola.it/fratoianni-leu-avremmo-preferito-fosse-aggiunta-la-parola-pubblica-a-istruzione/ |website=Orizzonte Scuola Notizie}} and condemns their strong privatization.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |author=redazione |date=10 September 2019 |title=Nicola Fratoianni (Sinistra Italiana): in questi anni si è speso troppo poco per scuola e università |url=https://www.orizzontescuola.it/nicola-fratoianni-sinistra-italiana-in-questi-anni-si-e-speso-troppo-poco-per-scuola-e-universita/ |website=Orizzonte Scuola Notizie}}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=19 October 2017 |title=Povertà e immigrazione, Sinistra italiana ribalta i luoghi comuni |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2017/10/19/news/sinistra_italiana_campagna_contro_luoghi_comuni_immigrati-178706516/ |website=la Repubblica}}
It proposes the establishment of a free basic psychologist for all, psychological support services in schools, awareness campaigns and structural investments for the protection of mental health, so that psychological well-being will be "a guaranteed and accessible right for all".{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Nicola Fratoianni su Twitter |url=https://mobile.twitter.com/nfratoianni/status/1481267032373006341 |website=Twitter}}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=3 January 2022 |title=Fratoianni: "Buoni propositi per il 2022? Salario minimo e no a Berlusconi al Quirinale" |url=https://www.globalist.it/politics/2022/01/03/fratoianni-buoni-propositi-per-il-2022-salario-minino-e-no-a-berlusconi-al-quirinale/ |website=Globalist}}
It also proposes a salary increase for teachers, policies to combat precariousness, free public nursery schools,{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=28 November 2021 |title=Pineto, la Sinistra Italiana con Fratoianni presenta la Next Generation Tax |url=https://www.ekuonews.it/28/11/2021/pineto-la-sinistra-italiana-con-fratoianni-presenta-la-next-generation-tax/ |website=ekuonews.it}} a reduction in the number of students per class,{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Scuola: Fratoianni,distanziamento si fa senza classi pollaio {{!}} ANSA.it |url=https://www.ansa.it/amp/molise/notizie/2021/09/15/scuola-fratoiannidistanziamento-si-fa-senza-classi-pollaio_5179ee1b-66a9-4761-b2ca-6f2383a85e04.html |website=www.ansa.it}} free textbooks for schoolchildren,{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni a Pineto per la patrimoniale |url=https://www.ilcentro.it/teramo/fratoianni-a-pineto-per-la-patrimoniale-1.2738906 |website=Il Centro|date=29 November 2021 }} free public university (with the gradual abolition of student fees and a remodulation of the regional tax on the right to study),{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni (LeU): "Vi spiego perché l'università gratuita è un'idea di sinistra" |url=https://www.fanpage.it/politica/fratoianni-leu-vi-spiego-perche-l-universita-gratuita-e-un-idea-di-sinistra/ |website=Fanpage|date=9 January 2018 }}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni: Università è diritto universale, non servizio alla persona |url=https://www.sinistraitaliana.si/notizia/fratoianni-universita-diritto-universale-non-servizio-alla-persona/ |website=Sinistra Italiana}} the ban of unpaid internships,{{cite web|access-date=28 September 2022 |archive-date=8 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220108023028/https://m.politicanews.it/amp/politica-social/fratoianni-si-eliminare-contratti-pirata-e-tirocini-gratuiti-64037 |title=Fratoianni (SI): "Eliminare contratti pirata e tirocini gratuiti" |url=https://m.politicanews.it/amp/politica-social/fratoianni-si-eliminare-contratti-pirata-e-tirocini-gratuiti-64037}} policies to combat the emigration of young people abroad{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=L'occasione di una svolta |url=https://www.lasinistraquotidiana.it/loccasione-di-una-svolta/ |website=la Sinistra quotidiana}} and a greater investment in research.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |author=redazione |date=23 October 2017 |title=Mattarella: sostenere la ricerca. Fratoianni (SI): Governo accolga appello PdR e assuma 10mila ricercatori |url=https://www.orizzontescuola.it/mattarella-sostenere-la-ricerca-fratoianni-si-governo-accolga-appello-pdr-assuma-10mila-ricercatori/ |website=Orizzonte Scuola Notizie}}
To reduce deaths in the workplace, it proposes more inspections and controls, constant training for safety at work, contracts that guarantee stability, and fewer working hours.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |author=Mario Piromallo |date=30 November 2021 |title=Fratoianni, Sinistra Italiana: 1.000 morti sul lavoro in 10 mesi |url=http://www.nordmilanotizie.it/fratoianni-sinistra-italiana-1-000-morti-sul-lavoro-in-10-mesi |website=nordmilanotizie}}
To counter gender stereotypes, gender-based violence and homotransphobia, it proposes specific information campaigns, the introduction in schools of courses on sex and sentimental education and education to respect and differences; funding for a "freedom income", investments in anti-violence associations and centres, in order to "build a society free from patriarchy and imposed religious legacies".{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni (Sinistra Italiana): "Contro la violenza servono politiche concrete, no retorica" {{!}} Video - Affaritaliani.it |url=https://www.affaritaliani.it/coffee/video/politica/fratoianni-contro-la-violenza-servono-politiche-concrete-no-retorica.html |website=www.affaritaliani.it|date=25 November 2021 }}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=7 June 2021 |title=Fratoianni: "Saman ha pagato il prezzo dell'emancipazione, basta patriarcato" |url=https://www.globalist.it/news/2021/06/07/fratoianni-saman-ha-pagato-il-prezzo-dell-emancipazione-basta-patriarcato/ |website=Globalist}}{{cite web|access-date=28 September 2022 |title=Programma Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra |url=https://verdisinistra.it/programma-alleanza-verdi-e-sinistra/}}
It also supports compulsory and equal parental leave for both parents in order to ensure greater gender equality in work.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Sinistra Italiana |url=https://www.facebook.com/sinistraitalianaSI/posts/pfbid021StT2pfNg9t3uVg6RMFUA94JAfZVcCK4oVTMBRYJqmojkv2NiHZmEec1DpSPDSwQl |website=www.facebook.com}}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Nicola Fratoianni |url=https://www.facebook.com/Fratoianni/posts/pfbid0W3MTmky2KswHAuNdnxTdG6mwPX7B6aggb3cKbWH8NvnoKrPuDXWf8RPb2rYSXHSEl |website=www.facebook.com}}
= Economy and taxation =
The party proposes the introduction of a wealth tax on large assets ("tax on the rich") to redistribute wealth so that "those who have a lot pay a lot and those who have little pay less".{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |author=di Alberto Sofia |title=Europee, debutta "La Sinistra". Fratoianni: "Noi contro politiche di austerity. Alla flat tax preferiamo la patrimoniale" - Il Fatto Quotidiano |date=8 April 2019 |url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2019/04/08/europee-debutta-la-sinistra-fratoianni-noi-contro-politiche-di-austerity-alla-flat-tax-preferiamo-patrimoniale/5094973/}} This is done through the elimination of the IMU and stamp duty, replacing them with a single and progressive tax on large net assets per natural person, in order to obtain tens of billions of euros to be used for health, education, free nurseries, pensions and public transport.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Sinistra italiana presenta legge di iniziativa popolare per una nuova patrimoniale. Fratoianni: "Raccoglieremo le firme anche in spiaggia" |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2021/06/11/news/sinistra_italiana_nicola_fratoianni_tassa_patrimoniale_proposta_di_legge_iniziativa_popolare-305561494/ |website=la Repubblica|date=11 June 2021 }}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni a Fanpage: "Serve patrimoniale progressiva, sproporzione della ricchezza insopportabile" |url=https://www.fanpage.it/politica/fratoianni-a-fanpage-serve-patrimoniale-progressiva-sproporzione-della-ricchezza-insopportabile/ |website=Fanpage|date=21 September 2021 }}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |archive-date=7 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220707095046/http://nicolafratoianni.it/2019/05/19/chi-ha-paura-della-tassa-sulla-ricchezza/ |title=Chi ha paura della tassa sulla ricchezza? – Nicola Fratoianni |url=http://nicolafratoianni.it/2019/05/19/chi-ha-paura-della-tassa-sulla-ricchezza/}}
It also supports the introduction of an anti-relocation law,{{cite web|access-date=31 January 2022 |date=5 November 2021 |title=Delocalizzazioni, depositata alla Camera la proposta di legge scritta con i lavoratori della Gkn |url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2021/11/05/delocalizzazioni-depositata-alla-camera-la-proposta-di-legge-scritta-da-un-gruppo-di-giuristi-con-i-lavoratori-della-gkn/6348955/ |website=Il Fatto Quotidiano}} the fight against tax havens, the lowering of the threshold limit for the use of cash and the gradual replacement of the use of cash with electronic payment methods (eliminating bank commissions) in order to fight tax evasion (recovering hundreds of billions of euros) and mafias.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Sulla lotta all'evasione fiscale sto con Conte - HuffPost Italia |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/economia/2019/10/18/news/sulla_lotta_all_evasione_fiscale_sto_con_conte-5435189/amp/ |website=www.huffingtonpost.it}}
= Civil rights =
The party is strongly in favour of the legalisation of euthanasia,{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni: "Questioni come l'eutanasia devono essere oggetto di una legislazione" |url=https://m.politicanews.it/politica-italiana/fratoianni-questioni-come-l-eutanasia-devono-essere-oggetto-di-una-legislazione-15135 |website=Politica News}} the legalisation of cannabis (mainly to combat crime),{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Legalizzare la cannabis è prima di tutto una scelta di buonsenso |url=https://mobile.twitter.com/nfratoianni/status/757561906425200640 |website=Twitter}}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Manovra: Fratoianni, 'su cannabis ennesimo atto ipocrisia' |url=https://www.iltempo.it/news-adn-kronos/2019/12/16/news/manovra-fratoianni-su-cannabis-ennesimo-atto-ipocrisia-1256605/amp/ |website=www.iltempo.it}} LGBT rights,{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=5 March 2016 |title=Unioni civili, in piazza a Roma il popolo arcobaleno: "La battaglia continua" |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2016/03/05/news/unioni_civili_in_piazza_a_roma_il_popolo_arcobaleno_la_battaglia_continua_-134834648/ |website=la Repubblica}}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=14 July 2020 |title=Fratoianni difende il ddl Zan: "Troppi giovani vengono aggrediti per omotransfobia, serve una legge" |url=https://www.globalist.it/politics/2020/07/14/fratoianni-difende-il-ddl-zan-troppi-giovani-vengono-aggrediti-per-omotransfobia-serve-una-legge/ |website=Globalist}} the introduction of jus soli,{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Gazzetta di Parma - Archivio null |url=https://www.gazzettadiparma.it/ |website=www.gazzettadiparma.it}} medical abortion in day hospital,{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Pillola abortiva: a Perugia le donne in piazza contro la decisione dell'Umbria di prevedere il ricovero per chi assuma la Ru486 |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2020/06/21/news/aborto_a_perugia_le_donne_in_piazza_contro_la_decisione_dell_umbria_di_prevedere_3_giorni_di_ricovero_per_chi_utilizza_la_p-259819314/ |website=la Repubblica|date=21 June 2020 }}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=16 June 2020 |title=Umbria vieta aborto farmacologico, Fratoianni: "La Destra italiana non ha alcun rispetto per le donne" |url=https://www.globalist.it/politics/2020/06/16/umbria-vieta-aborto-farmacologico-fratoianni-la-destra-italiana-non-ha-alcun-rispetto-per-le-donne/ |website=Globalist}} gestation for others (solidarity, altruistic and regulated){{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |author=Silvia Seminati |date=15 April 2021 |title=La deputata Guia Termini (ex Movimento 5 Stelle) firma la «gravidanza solidale» |url=https://bergamo.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/21_aprile_15/deputata-guia-termini-ex-movimento-5-stelle-firma-gravidanza-solidale-81f3f97c-9dc5-11eb-a55a-be49eedc613c.shtml |website=Corriere della Sera}}{{Cite web |title=L'obbrobrio della GPA reato universale, urge una alleanza laica e democratica |url=https://www.sinistraitaliana.si/notizia/lobbrobrio-della-gpa-reato-universale-urge-unalleanza-laica-democratica/ |access-date=2024-11-20 |website=Sinistra Italiana |language=it-IT}} and the introduction of identification codes on the uniforms of law enforcement officers to prevent them from engaging in illicit behaviour (such as abuse of power) on the civilians.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Matricole sulle divise, Sinistra italiana ci riprova - Adnkronos.com |url=https://www.adnkronos.com/matricole-sulle-divise-sinistra-italiana-ci-riprova_1ncjQUtNps4iixDprkZQ4g/amp.html |website=www.adnkronos.com}}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=I codici identificativi per la polizia sono ancora lontani |url=https://pagellapolitica.it/articoli/codici-identificativi-polizia-ancora-lontani |website=Pagella Politica}}
On LGBT rights, the party proposes: the legalization of equal marriage and adoption for gay couples (and for singles), the prohibition of reparative therapies and the prohibition of medically unnecessary surgery on intersex children, a law against homotransphobia (and against ableism).{{cite web|access-date=28 September 2022 |title=Gay.it stila la classifica dei partiti più attenti alle istanze della comunità Lgbtqi: in alto M5s, Si/Verdi e +Europa, zero punti per la destra |date=28 August 2022 |url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2022/08/28/gay-it-stila-la-classifica-dei-partiti-piu-attenti-alle-istanze-della-comunita-lgbtqi-in-alto-m5s-si-verdi-e-europa-zero-punti-per-la-destra/6776910/amp/}}{{cite web|access-date=28 September 2022 |title=Diritti lgbtq+, dal matrimonio egualitario alla legge contro l'omotransfobia: cosa c'è nei programmi dei partiti |date=26 August 2022 |url=https://www.lastampa.it/speciale/politica/elezioni-politiche-2022/2022/08/26/news/elezioni_politiche_2022_voto_diritti_lgbtq_cosa_ce_nei_programmi_dei_partiti-7469372/}}
= Immigration =
The party, in addition to being in favor of granting citizenship to minor children of legal foreigners born and raised in Italy (ius soli),{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=2 January 2021 |title=Fratoianni spinge per Ius Soli e Ius Culturae: "Chi nasce e chi cresce in Italia è italiano" |url=https://www.globalist.it/politics/2021/01/02/fratoianni-spinge-per-ius-soli-e-ius-culturae-chi-nasce-e-chi-cresce-in-italia-e-italiano/ |website=Globalist}} supports the timely rescue of migrants in the sea, their reception and integration,{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=9 September 2019 |title=Le condizioni di Leu. Fratoianni: "Via i decreti Sicurezza, basta bloccare barconi" |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/entry/le-condizioni-di-leu-fratoianni-via-i-decreti-sicurezza-basta-bloccare-barconi_it_5d75e8c8e4b064513570b010/ |website=HuffPost Italia}} their regularisation for the recognition of the "invisible"{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni: "Giusta richiesta Bellanova su regolarizzazione migranti" |url=https://www.politicanews.it/politica-italiana/fratoianni-giusta-richiesta-bellanova-su-regolarizzazione-migranti-5651 |website=Politica News}} and the establishment of humanitarian corridors.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=18 August 2021 |title=Fratoianni attacca Salvini: "Il suo è stato un approccio miserabile sull'accoglienza degli afghani" |url=https://www.globalist.it/politics/2021/08/18/fratoianni-attacca-salvini-il-suo-e-stato-un-approccio-miserabile-sull-accoglienza-degli-afghani/ |website=Globalist}}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni (Si): "Garantire cordoni umanitari" {{!}} Video - Affaritaliani.it |url=https://www.affaritaliani.it/coffee/video/politica/fratoianni-garantire-cordoni-umanitari.html |website=www.affaritaliani.it|date=28 August 2021 }}
= Defence and foreign policy =
The party advocates pacifism, Europeanism, low national spending on military defense, a common European army, diplomacy as a tool for resolving disputes between nations, and ideally global disarmament.{{cite web|access-date=3 March 2022 |title=Prepara la pace |url=https://www.sinistraitaliana.si/preparalapace/ |website=Sinistra Italiana}}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Ucraina: Fratoianni, no ad aumento spese militari Italia, risorse servono per sanità, scuola e ambiente |url=https://www.agenzianova.com/a/623317d1c0fe91.71375428/3839487/2022-03-17/ucraina-fratoianni-no-ad-aumento-spese-militari-italia-risorse-servono-per-sanita-scuola-e-ambiente |website=Agenzia Nova}}
= Democracy =
The party proposes a ban on private funding of political parties and associations in order to prevent them from becoming "politically weak, susceptible to blackmail and permeable to the demands of the rich financier of the moment".{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Fratoianni a Fanpage: "Solo Renzi non capisce che un senatore non può essere pagato da stati esteri" |url=https://www.fanpage.it/politica/fratoianni-a-fanpage-solo-renzi-non-capisce-che-un-senatore-non-puo-essere-pagato-da-stati-esteri/ |website=Fanpage|date=17 November 2021 }}{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Scandaloso non è Renzi, ma la legge sul finanziamento privato ai partiti |url=https://www.sinistraitaliana.si/notizia/scandaloso-non-renzi-la-legge-sul-finanziamento-privato-ai-partiti/ |website=Sinistra Italiana}} It's also against foreign states financing of politicians.{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |date=22 April 2021 |title=Caso Renzi-Arabia, no a soldi da fondi sovrani ai partiti politici. Alla Camera la proposta di legge di Sinistra italiana |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2021/04/22/news/proposta_legge_caso_renzi_no_soldi_da_fondi_sovrani_partiti_politici-297443937/ |website=la Repubblica}} It proposes a proportional electoral law{{cite web|access-date=29 August 2022 |title=Per Nicola Fratoianni, il proporzionale è la terapia per la crisi della democrazia italiana |url=https://www.linkiesta.it/2019/12/nicola-fratoianni-legge-elettorale-maggioritario-proporzionale-pd-sini/amp/ |website=www.linkiesta.it}} and the right for 'out-of-office' citizens to vote in their homes.{{cite web | url=https://www.maremmanews.it/post/fratoianni-alleanza-verdi-sinistra-impedire-ai-fuorisede-di-votare-e-violazione&ved=2ahUKEwjoj6r0ufODAxUnRvEDHf99DhgQFnoECCYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3kv8ERDuNgkVer83-R2ftC | title=Maremma News }}https://www.verdisinistra.it/voto-dove-vivo-evi-serve-subito-una-legge/&ved=2ahUKEwin2vHZuvODAxUMR_EDHewSAb4QFnoECCQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1lB9vmiIX_o6Yatd5Tbbmh
Election results
=Italian Parliament=
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width=13%|Election year
! width=16%|Votes ! width=6%|% ! width=1%|Seats ! width=8%|+/– ! width=18%|Leader |
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2018
| Into LeU | 3.4 | {{Composition bar|3|630|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | {{center|Nicola Fratoianni}} |
2022
| Into AVS | 3.6 | {{Composition bar|4|400|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{Center|{{increase}} 1}} | {{center|Nicola Fratoianni}} |
class=wikitable style="width:50%; border:1px #AAAAFF solid" |
colspan=6|Senate of the Republic |
width=13%|Election year
! width=16%|Votes ! width=6%|% ! width=1%|Seats ! width=8%|+/– ! width=18%|Leader |
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2018
| Into LeU | 3.3 | {{Composition bar|1|315|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | {{center|Nicola Fratoianni}} |
2022
| Into AVS | 3.5 | {{Composition bar|3|200|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{Center|{{increase}} 2}} | {{center|Nicola Fratoianni}} |
=European Parliament=
class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Election ! Leader ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/– ! EP Group |
2019
| rowspan="2" |Nicola Fratoianni | Into The Left | 1.75 | {{Composition bar|0|76|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | New | – |
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2024
| Into AVS | 6.78 | {{Composition bar|2|76|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{increase}} 2 | The Left |
=Regional Councils=
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width=19%|Region
! width=13%|Election year ! width=15%|Votes ! width=7%|% ! width=1%|Seats ! width=6%|+/− ! width=12%|Status in legislature |
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Aosta Valley
! 2020 | {{N/A}} | {{N/A}} | {{Composition bar|0|35|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Piedmont
! 2024 | 107,095 (6th) (into AVS) | 6.48 | {{Composition bar|2|51|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|{{increase}} 1}} | {{no2|Opposition}} |
Lombardy
! 2023 | 93,019 (10th)(into AVS) | 3.2 | {{Composition bar|1|80|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|{{increase}} 1}} | {{no2|Opposition}} |
Trentino-Alto Adige
! 2023 | 7,565 (9th) (into AVS) | 3.25 | {{Composition bar|0|35|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Veneto
! 2020 | 41.275 (7th) {{efn|In a joint list with Art.1 and Pos}} | 2.01 | {{Composition bar|0|51|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Friuli-Venezia Giulia
! 2023 | 8,029 (8th)(into AVS) | 2.03 | {{Composition bar|1|48|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | {{no2|Opposition}} |
Emilia-Romagna
! 2024 | 79,236 (4th)(into AVS) | 5.30 | {{Composition bar|2|51|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|{{increase}} 2}} | {{yes2|Majority}} |
Liguria
! 2024 | 34,716 (6th) (into AVS) | 6.17 | {{Composition bar|0|31|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|{{decrease}} 1}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Tuscany
! 2020 | 46,514 (9th){{efn|In a joint list with PRC, PaP, SA}} | 2.87 | {{Composition bar|0|41|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|{{decrease}} 1}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Marche
! 2020 | 11,834 (11th){{efn|In a joint list with PRC}} | 1.9 | {{Composition bar|0|31|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Umbria
! 2024 | 13,750 (8th) (into AVS) | 4.28 | {{Composition bar|1|21|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|{{increase}} 1}} | {{yes2|Majority}} |
Lazio
! 2023 | 7.974 (11th) | 1.21 | {{Composition bar|1|51|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | {{no2|Opposition}} |
Abruzzo
! 2024 | 20,655 (9th) (into AVS) | 3.57 | {{Composition bar|0|31|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Molise
! 2023 | 6,742 (10th) (into AVS) | 4.77 | {{Composition bar|0|21|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Campania
! 2020 | 25,125 (11th){{efn|In a joint list with PRC, PCI, PdS, AET}} | 1.07 | {{Composition bar|0|51|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Apulia
! 2020 | 63,725 (6th) {{efn|In a joint list with Art.1 and PRI}} | 3.8 | {{Composition bar|0|51|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|{{decrease}} 4}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Basilicata
! 2024 | 15,144 (9th) (into AVS) | 5.79 | {{Composition bar|0|21|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Calabria
! 2021 | 18,235 (13th) | 2.39 | {{Composition bar|0|31|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|–}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
Sicily
! 2022 | 55,599 (9th){{efn|name=fn2|In a joint list with Article One–MDP.}} | 3.0 | {{Composition bar|0|70|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|{{decrease}} 1}} | style="background:#ddd; text-align:center"| No seats |
|Sardinia
! 2024 | 32,145 (6th) (into AVS) | 4.7 | {{Composition bar|1|60|hex={{party color|Italian Left}}}} | {{center|{{increase}} 1}} | {{yes2|Majority}} |
Leadership
- Secretary: Nicola Fratoianni (2017–2019), Claudio Grassi (acting, 2019–2021), Nicola Fratoianni (2021–present)
- Deputy Secretary: Giovanni Paglia (2021–2023)
- Spokesperson: Nicola Fratoianni (2020–2021)
- Coordinator: Elisabetta Piccolotti (2021–2023), Giovanni Paglia (2023–present)
- President: Laura Lauri (2017–2019), Claudio Grassi (2019–2022), Maria Gabriella Branca (2022–2023), Nichi Vendola (2023–present)
- President of National Assembly: Maria Gabriella Branca (2023–present)
- Party Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Arturo Scotto (2015–2017), {{ill|Giulio Marcon|it}} (2017–2018), Nicola Fratoianni (2018–present)
- Party Leader in the Senate: Loredana De Petris (2016–2022), Peppe De Cristofaro (2022–present)
Symbols
File:Sinistra Italiana.jpeg|2015–2016
File:Logo di Sinistra Italiana Rosso Bianco.jpg|2016–2017
File:Sinistra Italiana.svg|2017–present
Notes
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References
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External links
- [http://www.sinistraitaliana.si/ Official website]
- [http://sinistraitaliana.camera/ Parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies – official website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170430093111/http://sinistraitaliana.camera/ |date=30 April 2017 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20171011113106/http://www.cosmopolitica.org/ Website of SI's constituent assembly, Cosmopolitica]
- [http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/467220/cosmopolitica-si-riparte-per-cambiare-litalia-prima-giornata Complete recording of the first day of Cosmopolitica] from Radio Radicale
- [http://www.radioradicale.it/scheda/467222/cosmopolitica-si-riparte-per-cambiare-litalia-terza-giornata Complete recording of the third day of Cosmopolitica] from Radio Radicale
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