Republican Left (Italy)

{{short description|Italian political party}}

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| name = Republican Left

| native_name = Sinistra Repubblicana

| country = Italy

| colorcode = {{party color|Italian Republican Party}}

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| leader = Giorgio Bogi

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| foundation = 30 January 1994

| dissolution = 14 February 1998

| split = Italian Republican Party

| merged = Democrats of the Left

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| ideology = Social liberalism

| national = Democratic Alliance

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The Republican Left ({{langx|it|Sinistra Repubblicana}}, SR) was a social-liberal political party in Italy.

In January 1994 Giorgio La Malfa returned to the leadership of the Italian Republican Party (PRI), replacing Giorgio Bogi, and the party's national council decided to leave Democratic Alliance (AD) – of which the PRI had been a founding member – and to enter the Pact for Italy coalition. Therefore Bogi, Giuseppe Ayala, Libero Gualtieri and others left the PRI and launched the "Republican Left", which continued to be part of AD and joined the larger Alliance of Progressives.

In February 1998 the SR was merged, along with the Labour Federation, the Social Christians, the Unitarian Communists, the Reformists for Europe and the Democratic Federation, into the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), thus founding the Democrats of the Left (DS).{{cite book|author1= Daniela Giannetti|author2=Rosa Mulé|editor=Anna Bosco|chapter=The Democratici di Sinistra: In Search of a New Identity|title=Party Change in Southern Europe|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IbHdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA123|year=2007|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-76777-7|page=123}}{{cite book|author1=Daniela Giannetti|author2=Michael Laver|editor1=Daniela Giannetti|editor2=Kenneth Benoit|chapter=Party cohesion, party discipline, and party factions in Europe|title=Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IKp9AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA152|year=2008|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-04288-3|page=152}} After that, the SR became an internal faction within the DS.