Party of Socialists and Democrats
The Party of Socialists and Democrats (it. Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici shortly PSD) is a social democratic political party of San Marino. She is a member of the Socialist International, their current Italian counterpart is the Democratic Party.
History
The PSD was founded in 2005 by a merger of the Partito Socialista Sammarinese (PSS ), the oldest political party in the country and the Partito dei and the Democratici (PD). At the time of the founding of the party, the party held 27 of 60 seats in the Consiglio Grande e Generale, which was reduced after the parliamentary elections of 2006 to 20 seats. The PSS reigned long as the junior partner in a coalition with the Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese, while the PD had its origins in the Partito Comunista Sammarinese.
The merger of the two parties provoked the emergence of the middle wing of the PSS, who called the Nuovo Partito Socialista into life and the emergence of the socialist wing of the PD, the Partito della Sinistra - Zona Franca founded and the Refoundation Sammarinese joined in Education the Sinistra Unita, while two other split-off, led by Fabio Berardi and Nadia Ottaviani, both members of the Consiglio Grande e Generale, which complained that PSD should be left aligned, split to base Libertà party in September 2008 at the Arengo e. Another spin-off 2009in Borgo Maggiore formed the Partito Socialista Riformista Sammarinese.
In the parliamentary elections of 2006, the PSD won 31.8 % of the vote and 20 of 60 seats, and reigned from 2006 to 2008 in coalition with the National Alliance Popolare dei Democratici Sammarinesi per la Repubblica and the Sinistra Unita, to tensions between the two latter caused the collapse of the coalition.
For the San Marino Parliament elections of 2008, the PSD of the smaller Sammarinesi allowed to start per la Libertà party as part of their election list, and was part of the Riforme e Libertà coalition that 25 out of 60 seats in the Consiglio Grande e Generale and 45.78 % of votes won, but a majority government missed.
For the San Marino parliamentary elections in 2012, launched the PSD as part of the winning San Marino Bene Comune coalition, led by the Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese.