Reform Socialist Party

The Reform Socialist Party ("Partito Socialista Riformista", PSR) was a tiny social-democratic party in Italy.

It was founded after the Tangentopoli scandal, in opposition to the decision of Ottaviano Del Turco, then secretary of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), to place it within the left-wing Alliance of Progressives coalition, dominated by the Democratic Party of the Left. Its leading members included Fabrizio Cicchitto and Enrico Manca [ [http://mephisto.altervista.org/index_file/page0001.htm http://mephisto.altervista.org/index_file/page0001.htm] ] . The party merged into the Socialist Party in 1996.

Fabrizio Cicchitto, who was a left-winger close to Riccardo Lombardi [ [http://www.aprileonline.info/2448/lombardi-lattualita-per-una-sinistra-di-governo http://www.aprileonline.info/2448/lombardi-lattualita-per-una-sinistra-di-governo] ] in the old PSI is now deputy-coordinator of Forza Italia, while Enrico Manca, who was a centrist linked to Bettino Craxi, joined Democracy is Freedom – Daisy in 2004 and the Democratic Party later.

Leadership

*Secretary: Fabrizio Cicchitto (1994–1996)
*President: Enrico Manca (1994–1996)

ee also

* Italian Reform Socialist Party

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