Unified Socialist Party (Italy)

Not to be confused with Unitary Socialist Party (Italy, 1922) or Unitary Socialist Party (Italy, 1949).

The Unified Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Unificato), officially called Unified PSI–PSDI (PSI–PSDI Unificati), was the name of the federation of parties formed by the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) from 1966 to 1969.^[1][2] The parties membership was composed of 700,964 activists in 1966.^[3]

Unified Socialist Party Partito Socialista Unificato
Leaders	Pietro Nenni Giuseppe Saragat
Secretaries	Francesco De Martino Mario Tanassi
President	Pietro Nenni
Founded	1966
Dissolved	1969
Newspaper	Avanti! L'Umanità
Ideology	Democratic socialism Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	Socialist International
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

History

The two parties joined forces in 1966, after the PSI had joined the Italian government in 1963 for the first time since 1947, as part of Aldo Moro's cabinets, composed of Christian Democracy, the Italian Republican Party, and the PSDI. The united party achieved 14.5% of the vote in the 1968 Italian general election,^[4] and suffered losses due to the competition of the PSI's dissidents of the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity. The PSI–PSDI returned officially to the name PSI in October 1968, causing the split of the PSDI's former members in July 1969; these formed the United Socialist Party, which was finally renamed PSDI in 1971.^[2]

Composition

Party		Main ideology	Leader/s
	Italian Socialist Party	Democratic socialism	Pietro Nenni
	Italian Democratic Socialist Party	Social democracy	Giuseppe Saragat

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Chamber of Deputies
Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Leader
1968	4,603,192 (3rd)	14.48	91 / 630	–	Pietro Nenni

Senate of the Republic
Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Leader
1968	4,354,906 (3rd)	15.22	46 / 315	–	Pietro Nenni

Sources

1. Mark F. Gilbert; K. Robert Nilsson; Robert K. Nilsson (1 April 2010). The A to Z of Modern Italy. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 333. ISBN 978-0-8108-7210-3.
2. André Krouwel (20 November 2012). Party Transformations in European Democracies. SUNY Press. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-4384-4483-3.
3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
4. Ram Mudambi; Pietro Navarra; Giuseppe Sobbrio (1 January 2001). Rules, Choice and Strategy: The Political Economy of Italian Electoral Reform. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-78195-082-1.