Solidary Democracy
Solidary Democracy (Italian: Democrazia Solidale, DemoS) is a Christian-leftist political party in Italy. The party's early leader, Lorenzo Dellai has described it as a "Christian-social" party. DemoS is led by Paolo Ciani; several party members, including Ciani himself, hail from the Community of Sant'Egidio.
Solidary Democracy Democrazia Solidale | |
|---|---|
| Secretary | Paolo Ciani |
| President | Mario Giro |
| Founded | 4 July 2014 6 October 2018 (re-organisation) |
| Split from | Populars for Italy |
| Headquarters | Via Panfilo Castaldi 9, Rome |
| Ideology | Christian left |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Coalition: Centre-left coalition Political party: Democratic Party (since 2019) |
| European Parliament group | Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats |
| Colours | Teal |
| Chamber of Deputies | 1 / 400 (Into the Democratic Party) |
| Senate | 0 / 200 |
| European Parliament | 1 / 73 (Into the Democratic Party) |
| Regional Councils | 3 / 896 |
| Website | |
| democraziasolidale | |
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 Union (active mainly in Sardinia) and the Union for Trentino (Dellai's long-time party in Trentino, of which he was President in 1999–2012).