Democratic Socialist Left
Sinistra Socialista Democratica
PresidentMichele Muratori
SecretaryAlessandro Bevitori
FoundedNovember 2016 (2016-11)
(electoral list)
17 November 2017 (2017-11-17) (party)
Dissolved30 December 2020
Merger ofUnited Left
Progressives and Reformists
Democratic Laboratory
Merged intoLibera San Marino
HeadquartersVia delle Tamerici, 1/A – Domagnano
IdeologySocial democracy
Democratic socialism[1]
Political positionCentre-left to left-wing
National affiliationLibera
Italian counterpartItalian Left
Colours  Red
Grand and General Council
5 / 60
Website
ssd.sm

Democratic Socialist Left (Italian: Sinistra Socialista Democratica, SSM) was a political party in San Marino, founded as an electoral list for the 2016 general election, including United Left, Progressives and Reformists and Democratic Laboratory. The three parties officially merged into a single party in November 2017. The party was dissolved on 30 December 2020 to merge into with Libera San Marino.[2]

History

Democratic Socialist Left was founded in November 2016 as an electoral list composed of the United Left, Progressives and Reformists and Democratic Laboratory. Together with Future Republic (a list uniting Popular Alliance and Union for the Republic) and Civic 10 they formed the coalition Adesso.sm.[3]

The coalition won the 2016 general election, defeating the ruling coalition San Marino First (formed by the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party, the Party of Socialists and Democrats, the Socialist Party and the Sammarinese list), while the SSD list won 14 seats in the Grand and General Council, forming the first non-Christian Democratic government since the Fatti di Rovereta in 1957.

On 10 November 2017 United Left celebrated its last congress, which overwhelmingly passed a motion calling to dissolve the party and turn SSD into a full political party. On 17 November 2017 the first congress of Democratic Socialist Left was celebrated, officially merging the three parties into a single political entity and electing Michele Muratori as party president and Eva Guidi as secretary.[4]

In October 2018 Guidi stepped down as party secretary to join the Sammarinese Government; she was replaced in November by Alessandro Bevitori.[5]

On 30 December 2020, the Democratic Socialist Left was dissolved in order to merge into the Libera San Marino party.[2]

Electoral history

Grand and General Council
Election Leader Votes % Seats +/– Government
2016 Eva Guidi 2,352 12.11 (#3)
14 / 60
 Increase 9 Coalition
2019 Michele Muratori 2,964 16.49 (#3)
(Libera)
5 / 60
 Decrease 9 Opposition

References

  1. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "San Marino". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Sciolta Sinistra Socialista Democratica: da Area Democratica analisi su passato e futuro". San Marino Rtv (in Italian). 6 January 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Riformisti, nasce Sinistra socialista democratica". dire.it (in Italian). 6 July 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  4. ^ Fiocca, Alessandro (16 October 2018). "San Marino. Il compito della sinistra secondo Sinistra Socialista Democratica". Libertas (in Italian). Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
  5. ^ "San Marino. Assemblea Congressuale di Sinistra Socialista Democratica". Libertas (in Italian). 24 November 2018. Archived from the original on 25 November 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
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