Italian Reformist Socialist Party

Italian political party (1912-1925)

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The Italian Reformist Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Riformista Italiano, PSRI) was a social-democratic political party in Italy.

History

It was formed in 1912 by those leading reformist socialists who had been expelled from the Italian Socialist Party because of their desire of entering in the majority supporting Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti. Leading members of the PSRI were Leonida Bissolati, Ivanoe Bonomi, and Meuccio Ruini.^[1] In the 1913 Italian general election, the party won 2.6% of the vote and 21 seats in single-seat constituencies spread in almost all the Italian regions; some others, such as Ruini, were elected for the Italian Radical Party.^[2] In the 1919 Italian general election, they won at 1.5% of the vote and gained 15 seats under the new proportional representation system.^[3]

The party was dissolved by the Italian fascist regime on 6 November 1926, together with all opposition parties. After World War II, Bonomi and Ruini launched the Labour Democratic Party as the continuation of the PSRI and positioned it within the National Democratic Union, which comprised the Italian Liberal Party and some former Radicals.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Election	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Leader	Government
Chamber of Deputies
1913	196,406 (6th)	3.9	19 / 508	–	Leonida Bissolati	Opposition (1914–1916)
1913	196,406 (6th)	3.9	19 / 508	–	Leonida Bissolati	Coalition (1916–1920)
1919	82,157 (9th)	1.4	6 / 508	13	Leonida Bissolati	Opposition (1920)
1919	82,157 (9th)	1.4	6 / 508	13	Leonida Bissolati	Coalition (1920–1922)

References

^ Massimo L. Salvadori, Enciclopedia storica, Zanichelli, Bologna 2000
^ David Busato, Il Partito Radicale in Italia da Mario Pannunzio a Marco Pannella, 1996
^ Piergiorgio Corbetta; Maria Serena Piretti, Atlante storico-elettorale d'Italia, Zanichelli, Bologna 2009

Italian Socialist Party

Secretary

Carlo Dell'Avalle (1892–1894)
Filippo Turati (1895–1896)
Enrico Ferri (1896)
Carlo Dell'Avalle (1896–1898)
Alfredo Bertesi (1898–1899)
Enrico Bertini (1899–1900)
Savino Varazzani (1900–1904)
Enrico Ferri (1904–1906)
Oddino Morgari (1906–1908)
Pompeo Ciotti (1908–1912)
Costantino Lazzari (1912–1918)
Egidio Gennari (1918)
Costantino Lazzari (1918–1919)
Arturo Vella (1919)
Nicola Bombacci (1919–1920)
Egidio Gennari (1920–1921)
Giovanni Bacci (1921)
Domenico Fioritto (1921–1923)
Tito Oro Nobili (1923–1925)
Olindo Vernocchi (1925–1930)
Ugo Coccia (1930–1932)
Pietro Nenni (1933–1939)
Giuseppe Saragat, Oddino Morgari and Angelo Tasca (1939–1942)
Giuseppe Romita (1942–1943)
Pietro Nenni (1943–1945)
Sandro Pertini (1945)
Rodolfo Morandi (1945–1946)
Ivan Matteo Lombardo (1946–1947)
Lelio Basso (1947–1948)
Alberto Jacometti (1948–1949)
Pietro Nenni (1949–1963)
Francesco De Martino (1963–1968)
Mario Tanassi (1966–1968)
Mauro Ferri (1968–1969)
Francesco De Martino (1969–1970)
Giacomo Mancini (1970–1972)
Francesco De Martino (1972–1976)
Bettino Craxi (1976–1993)
Giorgio Benvenuto (1993)
Ottaviano Del Turco (1993–1994)
Valdo Spini (1994)

Derivatives

Italian Reformist Socialist Party
Fascio d'Azione Rivoluzionaria / Fasci Italiani di Combattimento / National Fascist Party / Republican Fascist Party
Italian Communist Party / International Communist Party
Unitary Socialist Party
Maximalist Italian Socialist Party
Socialist Unity
Italian Democratic Socialist Party
Italian Socialists / Italian Democratic Socialists / Socialist League
Labour Federation
Reformist Socialist Party
Socialist Party / New Italian Socialist Party
Italian Socialist Party (2007)
Forza Italia (social-democrats faction)
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (social-democrats faction)

Alliances

Popular Democratic Front (1947-1948)
Organic centre-left (1962-1976)
Unified Socialist Party (1966-1971)
Pentapartito (1981-1993)
Alliance of Progressives (1994)

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