European Liberal Social Democracy

The European Liberal Social Democracy (Socialdemocrazia Liberale Europea, SOLE), was a social-democratic Italian political party.

It was initially founded as an internal faction of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party on 10 December 1994 by Enrico Ferri and Luigi Preti, to defend themselves from attacks within the party. Indeed Ferri was forced to resign as secretary after his alliance decision with the centre-right was strongly disputed within the party.

In the XXIV congress, held from 28 to 29 January 1995, Gian Franco Schietroma was appointed secretary of the PSDI, which was thus readmitted into the Socialist International; instead Ferri and Preti decided to left the PSDI and SOLE became an autonomous party, with a collocation in the centre-right coalition.^[1]

The European Liberal Social Democracy, under the leadership of Ferri, began a collaboration with the Christian Democratic Centre that was not agreed by Preti, who in turn decided to leave the party to found Social Democratic Rebirth (which instead federated with Forza Italia). SOLE finally dissolved into the Christian Democratic Centre during 1996.^[2]

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