Socialist Party New PSI

The Partito Socialista – Nuovo PSI is a small Italian party which professes a socialist ideology and claims to be the successor to the old Italian Socialist Party, which was disbanded after an impressive series of corruption scandals of the early 1990s (see Mani Pulite). Despite its name and purported ideology, the party is affiliated to the ruling right-wing House of Freedoms coalition, led by Silvio Berlusconi, who also was a close friend of Craxi.

Related Topics:
Italian - Socialist - Italian Socialist Party - Corruption - 1990s - Mani Pulite - House of Freedoms - Coalition - Silvio Berlusconi

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The NPSI is however currently planning to leave the House of Freedoms, considering the alliance "exhausted", and join the centre-left Union, and there merge with the Italian Democratic Socialists to rebuild the Italian Socialist Party. However, they are not planning to leave the government until the elections in spring 2006, and are therefore going to run "against themselves". Some believe this is just an old-style, machiavellian attachment to power by any means, since it is currently expected that the Union will win the next national elections.

Related Topics:
Centre-left Union - Italian Democratic Socialists - Italian Socialist Party - 2006 - Machiavelli

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The party's members are often former followers of Bettino Craxi, whom they often portray as a victim of political persecution, notwithstanding the many convictions he received on corruption charges. The party's current leader is Gianni de Michelis, former minister of foreign affairs in a number of Italian governments, and formerly a close ally of Craxi.

Related Topics:
Bettino Craxi - Political persecution - Gianni de Michelis

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