Reformist Area

Reformist Area
Area Riformista
Leader Roberto Speranza
Other members Pier Luigi Bersani
Guglielmo Epifani
Vasco Errani
Rosy Bindi
Ideology Social democracy
Democratic socialism
Political position Left-wing

Reformist Area (Area Riformista, AR) is a predominantly social-democratic faction within the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy.

It was founded in April 2014 by a substantial number of supporters of Gianni Cuperlo in the 2013 Democratic Party leadership election, which Cuperlo lost to Matteo Renzi. AR, which is mostly composed of Bersaniani, Dalemiani and Lettiani, found its leader in Roberto Speranza, the party's floor leader in the Chamber of Deputies.[1][2][3][4]

In April 2015 Speranza, who dissented from Renzi on electoral reform, resigned from leader in the Chamber. This move weakened his leadership over the so-called "dialoguing left" (with Renzi) and ultimately broke the faction's unity and ranks. 70 MPs of AF, including Cesare Damiano, Matteo Mauri, Enzo Amendola, Paola De Micheli and Luciano Pizzetti, joined forces with Maurizio Martina, minister of Agricolture and leading member of the Remake Italy faction, and formed Left is Change,[5][6][7] while what remained of AF, under the leadership of Speanza and Pier Luigi Bersani, started a rapprochement with Cuperlo's LeftDem.

References

  1. ↑ "Pd, nasce "Area riformista": "Noi in minoranza, ma non siamo più anti-renziani" | Europa Quotidiano". europaquotidiano.it. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  2. ↑ "Lunedì il battesimo di Area riformista, la minoranza del Pd "leale" e "autonoma" | Europa Quotidiano". europaquotidiano.it. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  3. ↑ "Area riformista: lettiani, bersaniani, dalemiani, giovani turchi. All'Eliseo Nasce la nuova corrente Pd, i diversamente renziani". huffingtonpost.it. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  4. ↑ "Come cambia volto la minoranza Pd anti Renzi - Formiche". formiche.net. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  5. ↑ http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2015/06/19/news/pd_sinistra_e_cambiamento_cinque_proposte_per_riformare_il_paese-117226814/
  6. ↑ http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/agenda/2015/06/18/presentazione-sinistra-e-cambiamento-con-martina-e-damiano_60a3de66-600e-4fb3-96a6-0b0f9a613e4c.html
  7. ↑ http://www.affaritaliani.it/milano/la-minoranza-pd-riparte-da-milano-martina-non-si-candidera-a-sindaco-372506.html?refresh_ce
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