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| name = Solidary Democracy| native_name = Democrazia Solidale| logo = Democrazia Solidale Logo.png| logo_size = 220px| leader = | president = | leader1_title = Secretary| leader1_name = Paolo Ciani| leader2_title = President| leader2_name = Mario Giro (re-organisation)}}| split = Populars for Italy| headquarters = Via Panfilo Castaldi 9, Rome | dissolution =| predecessor = | youth_wing = | membership_year = | membership = Christian left}}Centre-left politics>Centre-leftHTTPS://WWW.EDITORIALEDOMANI.IT/POLITICA/ITALIA/DEMOS-RICCARDI-LETTA-CONTE-CENTRO-RENZI-MNBBS5RA > TITLE=PIù SOCIALE CHE SOCIAL, UN ALTRO CENTRO (NON RENZIANO) è POSSIBILE, HTTPS://CORATOLIVE.IT/2020/01/16/DEMOS-BASTA-FRAMMENTAZIONI-IL-CENTROSINISTRA-CONVERGA-SU-DE-BENEDITTIS/ > TITLE=DEMOS: "BASTA FRAMMENTAZIONI, IL CENTROSINISTRA CONVERGA SU DE BENEDITTIS" - CORATOLIVE.IT, 16 January 2020, Coalition: Centre-left coalition (Italy)>Centre-left coalitionPolitical party:{{nowrapDemocratic Party (Italy)>Democratic Party (since 2019)}}| european = | international = | europarl = Progressive Alliance of Socialists and DemocratsChamber of Deputies (Italy)>Chamber of Deputies1{{party colorDemocratic Party (Italy)>PD){{efn|Paolo Ciani is a member.}}Senate of the Republic (Italy)>Senate0{{party color|Solidary Democracy}}}}| seats3_title = European Parliament2{{party colorDemocratic Party (Italy)>PD){{efnBeatrice Covassi and Pietro Bartolo are members.FABIANI TITLE=ELEZIONI EUROPEE 8 E 9 GIUGNO 2024 WEBSITE=DEMOCRAZIA SOLIDALE - DEMOS LANGUAGE=IT-IT, 27 April 2024, }}Composition of Regional Councils of Italy>Regional Councils3hex={{party color|Solidary Democracy}}}}| seats5_title = | seats5 = {{party colorborder=darkgray}} Tealdemocraziasolidale.it}}| country = Italy| footnotes = {{notelist}}}}Solidary Democracy (, DemoS) is a Christian-leftist political party in Italy.The party's early leader, Lorenzo Dellai has described it as a "Christian-social" party.WEB, 2015-10-21, Roma, Democrazia Solidale: Dellai, Interessati a nuova rappresentanza politica,weblink usurped,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160418190356weblink">weblink 18 April 2016, 14 August 2018, Agenparl, DemoS is led by Paolo Ciani. Several party members, including Ciani, hail from the Community of Sant'Egidio.DemoS maintains solid relations with the Democratic Party. It also had relations with a number of alike minor parties/groups of the Christian left, notably including the Democratic Centre (with which DemoS formed a joint parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies in 2014–2018), the Christian Popular UnionWEB,weblink demosolidale, demosolidale, 14 August 2018, (active mainly in Sardinia) and the Union for Trentino (Dellai's long-time party in Trentino, of which he was President in 1999–2012).

History

DemoS was formed in July 2014, following the split of the left-wing faction from the Populars for Italy (PpI). The party, led by Lorenzo Dellai, Andrea Olivero, Mario Marazziti, Mario Giro and Lucio Romano, re-affirmed the strategic (not just tactical) alliance with Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party (PD), while the PpI considered it temporary and wanted to restructure the centre-right camp instead. At its start, the party counted eight deputies, two senators, one deputy minister and one undersecretary.WEB,weblink L'ultima bufera tra i Popolari di Mauro: Dellai, Olivero e Giro fondano Democrazia Solidale - Formiche.net, 5 July 2014, 14 August 2018, WEB,weblink Centro: Nasce 'Demo.S-Democrazia Solidale', Dellai-Olivero tra promotori - ASCA.it, 13 September 2014, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140714232454weblink">weblink 14 July 2014, WEB,weblink Così ripartono i Popolari senza Dellai e Olivero. Parla Mauro - Formiche.net, 9 July 2014, 14 August 2018, WEB,weblink Perché puntiamo a un'alleanza con il Pd. Parla Dellai - Formiche.net, 8 July 2014, 14 August 2018, In November 2014 the "For Italy" group in the Chamber welcomed the two deputies of the Democratic Centre (CD).WEB,weblink XVII Legislatura - XVII Legislatura - Deputati e Organi Parlamentari - Composizione gruppi Parlamentari, www.camera.it, 14 August 2018, In December the two senators of DemoS, Olivero and Romano, left the "For Italy" group, which was later disbanded, to join For the Autonomies, a miscellaneous group composed of minor autonomist and/or centre-left parties.WEB,weblink Olivero cambia gruppo, continua la diaspora degli ex Montiani, 14 August 2018, In September a ninth deputy, Maurizio Baradello, joined the party and the parliamentary group;WEB,weblink Maurizio Baradello - Scelta Civica Piemonte, 18 September 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160304063917weblink">weblink 4 March 2016, dead, WEB,weblink Politica addio, Vitelli tira i remi in barca, 14 August 2018, Baradello would die in May 2017.WEB,weblink E' morto Baradello, dirigente del Comune che volò a Tunisi per assistere i feriti al Bardo, 9 May 2017, 14 August 2018, In early 2015 Demos adopted a new symbol,WEB,weblink La sfida eurografica di Democrazia solidale, Dellai was elected president of the party and Paolo Ciani coordinator.In January 2016 the "For Italy" group changed its name to "Solidary Democracy – Democratic Centre", following a strengthening of the alliance with CD.WEB, 2017-10-05, Che cos'è Democrazia solidale - Centro democratico,weblink 2023-07-12, OpenBlog, it-IT, In February Giro, formerly an undersecretary, became deputy minister of Foreign Affairs; Giro was thus one of the party's two deputy ministers, along with Olivero at Agriculture.WEB,weblink Governo, via al rimpasto: 13 nomi nuovi. Torna anche il contestato Gentile, 28 January 2016, 14 August 2018, In June and December 2017, respectively, Fucsia NissoliWEB,weblink Fucsia Nissoli Passa A Forza Italia, politicamentecorretto.com, 14 August 2018, and Gianluigi Gigli joined Forza Italia (FI) and Energies for Italy (EpI),WEB,weblink Gigli: lascio Democrazia solidale e aderisco a Energie per l'Italia - AGV, 18 December 2017, 14 August 2018, both members of the centre-right coalition. For its part, DemoS was a founding member of the Popular Civic List (CP), a centrist electoral list within the centre-left coalition, along with Popular Alternative (AP), Italy of Values (IdV), the Centrists for Europe (CpE), Italy is Popular (IP), the Union for Trentino (UpT) and the Christian Popular Union (UPC).WEB,weblink Elezioni, Renzi attacca "l'innaturale alleanza popolari-populisti". Orlando chiede scelte condivise, 29 December 2017, 14 August 2018, NEWS,weblink Centrosinistra, c'è anche il terzo mini-alleato del Pd: Civica Popolare guidata dalla Lorenzin. Simbolo? Una margherita - Il Fatto Quotidiano, 29 December 2017, Il Fatto Quotidiano, 1 January 2018, it-IT, WEB,weblink Nasce "Civica Popolare", lista centrista alleata con il Pd: Lorenzin alla guida, 14 August 2018, In the 2018 general election CP obtained a mere 0.5% and no seats, thus DemoS was excluded from Parliament. Moreover, Dellai was defeated in a single-seat constituency in Trentino.WEB,weblink Dellai, cede anomalia trentina - Trentino AA/S, 5 March 2018, 14 August 2018, However, in the simultaneous 2018 regional election in Lazio, Ciani was elected regional councillor, at the head of a regional list named "Solidary Centre".WEB,weblink Promossi e bocciati nel Lazio. Ecco i nuovi consiglieri della Regione, 14 August 2018, In October 2018 DemoS was re-launched, with the aim of creating a large Christian-leftist movement within the centre-left, at the presence of Andrea Riccardi, founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio, and Paolo Gentiloni, a leading Democrat, former Prime Minister and minister of Foreign Affairs.WEB,weblink Ora arriva il partito di Sant'Egidio, WEB,weblink Scenari. Nasce "Democrazia solidale": Obiettivo amministrative, 6 October 2018, Nasce Democrazia Solidale. Gentiloni e Riccardi tengono a battesimo il nuovo soggetto politico. Paolo Ciani: "saremo la voce delle periferie"WEB,weblink Democrazia Solidale - Sammlung italienischer Linkskatholiken, 8 October 2018, WEB,weblink Rom: Neue katholische Partei mit Sant'Egidio-Hilfe gegründet, In the following months, the party was joined by some high-profile people, including Nello FormisanoCentrosinistra: Demos a Napoli al lancio di Alleanza Solidale and Pietro Bartolo,Migranti: Bartolo, il medico di Lampedusa, lascia Leu e aderisce a Demos while Michela Rostan, deputy of Article One, expressed her willingness to represent Demo.S in the Parliament.Rostan: "Sarò ben lieta di rappresentare le istanze di Democrazia Solidale in Parlamento"In the 2019 European Parliament election the party ran with the PDWEB,weblink Da Tsipras a Tsipras, il Pd di Zingaretti visto dal lato sinistro, resulting in the election Bartolo. In 2022 Beatrice Covassi replaced an outgoing MEP to become the party's second MEP.In May 2022 the party held its first national congress.WEB,weblink A sinistra prove di nuovo centro. Demos, il partito di Sant'Egidio si organizza: "In Ucraina l'unica vittoria è la pace", 14 May 2022, Ciani, until then coordinator, was elected secretary, while Giro was re-elected president.WEB,weblink Il primo congresso nazionale di Demos elegge Paolo Ciani nuovo segretario, In the 2022 general election party leader Ciani was elected to the Chamber for the PD.In the 2024 European Parliament election the party will run with the PD with three candidates, Bartolo, Covassi and Marco Tarquinioweblink

Leadership

• President: Lorenzo Dellai (2015–2018), Mario Giro (2018–present)
• Coordinator/Secretary: Paolo Ciani (2015–present)

Symbol

File:Democrazia Solidale.png|2015–2018File:Democrazia Solidale logo 2018.jpeg|2018–presentFile:Democrazia Solidale Logo.png|Horizontal logo

References

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External links

• Official website

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