Democratic Left (Italy)

Democratic Left
Sinistra Democratica
CoordinatorClaudio Fava
PresidentFabio Mussi
Founded5 May 2007 (2007-05-05)
Dissolved22–24 October 2010 (2010-10-24)
Split fromDemocrats of the Left
Merged intoLeft Ecology Freedom
HeadquartersVia Palermo, 12
00184 Rome
NewspaperAprile per la Sinistra
Membershipunknown
IdeologyDemocratic socialism
Green politics
Political positionLeft-wing
National affiliationRainbow Left (2008)
Left Ecology Freedom (2009-10)
European Parliament groupParty of European Socialists (2007–09)
Website
www.sinistra-democratica.it

Democratic Left (Italian: Sinistra Democratica, SD), whose complete name was Democratic Left. For European Socialism (Sinistra Democratica. Per il Socialismo Europeo), was a democratic-socialist political party in Italy.

SD was founded on 5 May 2007 by splinters of the Democrats of the Left (DS) led by Fabio Mussi and Gavino Angius, who opposed the merger of the DS with Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy to form the Democratic Party. According to its leading members at its foundation, SD was to be not a party but a movement, with the goal to unite the entire Italian left from Communist Refoundation Party to the Italian Democratic Socialists.

On 22–24 October 2010, SD was merged into Left Ecology Freedom.