Party of Socialists and Democrats Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici | |
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| Abbreviation | PSD |
| President | Silvia Cecchetti |
| Secretary | Luca Lazzari |
| Founded | 18 February 2005 (2005-02-18) |
| Merger of | PSS andPdD |
| Headquarters | Via Rovellino, 12 –Murata |
| Youth wing | Socialist Youth Area of San Marino |
| Ideology | Social democracy[1] Democratic socialism[1] Pro-Europeanism[2] |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Libera-PS/PSD |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| Italian counterparts | Democratic Party Italian Socialist Party |
| Colours | Red |
| Grand and General Council | 8 / 60 |
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TheParty of Socialists and Democrats (Italian:Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici, PSD) is asocial-democratic[1] anddemocratic socialist[1]political party inSan Marino. It is a member of theSocialist International,[3] and observer member of the Party of European Socialists.[4] It is the only Sammarinese party with a reference to the European Union in its official political symbol. Its current-day Italian counterpart is theDemocratic Party.
The PSD was formed in 2005 by a merger of theSammarinese Socialist Party (PSS), the oldest political party in the country founded in 1892, and theParty of Democrats (PdD). At the party's formation it had 27 of 60 seats in theGrand and General Council, which was reduced to 20 in the2006 general election. The PSS long governed as the junior partner in a coalition with theSammarinese Christian Democratic Party, while PD had its origins in theSammarinese Communist Party founded in 1921.
The merger of the two parties provoked the exit of thecentrist wing of PSS, which launched theNew Socialist Party and of the socialist wing of PD, which formed theLeft Party and joined theSammarinese Communist Refoundation into forming theUnited Left, while 2 other splinters, led byFabio Berardi and Nadia Ottaviani, both members of theGrand and General Council, who considered the PSD to be too left-wing, split in September 2008 to form theArengo and Freedom party. Another split in 2009 inBorgo Maggiore formed theSammarinese Reformist Socialist Party.
In the2006 general election PSD won 31.8% of the vote and 20 out of 60 seats and governed in coalition from 2006 to 2008 with thePopular Alliance and United Left until tensions between the latter two caused the coalition to disintegrate.
For the2008 general election the PSD allowed the smallerSammarinese for Freedom party run as part of its electoral list and was part of theReforms and Freedom electoral coalition which won 25 seats out of 60 in theGrand and General Council gaining 45.78% of the national vote but failed to gain a governmental majority and as a result the Party of Socialists and Democrats which itself gained 18 seats (a few of which went to Sammarinese for Freedom) out of the 25 the coalition gained and 31.96% of the national vote, and became part of the officialopposition to the government of the centre-right coalitionPact for San Marino.
After the Sammarinese political crisis of 2011, PSD entered in a new government of national unity withSammarinese Christian Democratic Party (PDCS). For the2012 general election, the PSD ran as part of the winningSan Marino Common Good coalition led by the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party, restoring the political formula which had run San Marino until the 1990s.
The party contested the2016 general election as part ofSan Marino First, along with the PDCS andSocialist Party (PS). The alliance formed the opposition to the Adesso.sm alliance led by theDemocratic Socialist Left, which one the second round runoff election on 4 December 2016.
In April 2024 the party launched an alliance with the PS andLibera San Marino for the2024 general election,[5][6] referred to as the Liberal/PS–PSD coalition.[7]
In the party's congress that was held between 26 and 27 October 2024,Luca Lazzari was elected as its Secretary andSilvia Cecchetti as its President.[8][9]
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