Unified Socialist Party (Italy)

Unified Socialist Party Partito Socialista Unificato

Leaders	Pietro Nenni Giuseppe Saragat
Secretaries	Francesco De Martino Mario Tanassi
President	Pietro Nenni
Founded	1966
Dissolved	1971
Newspaper	Avanti! L'Umanità
Ideology	Democratic socialism Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	Socialist International
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

The Unified Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Unificato, PSU), formally the 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 party's membership was composed of 700,964 activists in 1966.^[3]

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 just 14.5% of the vote in the 1968 general election,^[4] due to the competition of the PSI's dissindents of the Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, the PSU returned officially to the name PSI, 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]

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
Chamber of Deputies
1968	4,603,192 (#3)	14.48	91 / 630	–	Pietro Nenni

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
Senate of the Republic
1968	4,354,906 (#3)	15.22	46 / 315	–	Pietro Nenni

Sources

↑ 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.
1 2 André Krouwel (20 November 2012). Party Transformations in European Democracies. SUNY Press. p. 327. ISBN 978-1-4384-4483-3.
↑ http://www.cattaneo.org/archivi/adele/iscritti.xls
↑ 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.

Historical political parties in Italy

Communist

Communist Party of Italy Italian Communist Party Union of Italian Communists (Marxist–Leninist) Proletarian Unity Party Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist) Proletarian Democracy Movement of Unitarian Communists Movement for the Left Unite the Left Critical Left Party of Italian Communists

Socialist and social-democratic

Green

Green Lists Rainbow Greens Federalist Greens

Social-liberal

Centrist

Populars for Reform Segni Pact Italian Democratic Movement Italian Renewal United Consumers Union for the Republic Pact of Liberal Democrats Southern Democratic Party Middle Italy

Christian-democratic

Conservative-liberal

Liberal Union Economic Party Democratic Union for the New Republic Italian Liberal Party Italian Unionist Movement National Democratic Alliance Liberal Democratic Foundation Liberal Democratic Pole Union of the Centre The Liberals-Sgarbi Forza Italia Liberal Reformers Italian Liberal Right Labour and Freedom List The People of Freedom Future and Freedom

Conservative

Conservative Catholics Combatants' Party Agrarian Party Common Man's Front Italian Democratic Party Monarchist National Party People's Monarchist Party Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity National Democracy National Alliance Movement for Italy I Love Italy

Fascist

Italian Nationalist Association National Fascist Party Republican Fascist Party Italian Social Movement National Front (1967) National Front (1990) National Front (1997) Social Action

Regionalist and Federalist

Slavs and Germans Federalists and Liberal Democrats Federalist Party Federalist Italian League Federal Italy Autonomists for Europe Force of the South

Coalitions of parties

Leftist coalitions	Popular Democratic Front Alliance of Progressives Together with the Union The Left – The Rainbow For the Common Good Anticapitalist and Communist List Federation of the Left Civil Revolution

Centre-left coalitions	Organic Centre-left Socialist Unity Pact of Democrats The Olive Tree The Sunflower United Socialists for Europe The Union Rose in the Fist Italy. Common Good

Centrist coalitions	Pentapartito Pact for Italy White Flower The Clover New Pole for Italy With Monti for Italy European Choice

Centre-right coalitions	National Democratic Union National Bloc Pole of Freedoms Pole of Good Government Pole for Freedoms Segni Pact – National Alliance House of Freedoms The Autonomy

Rightist coalitions	National Blocs National List National Bloc of Freedom Social Alternative The Right–Tricolour Flame

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19th-century parties

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