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The Democratic Party (Italian: Partito Democratico, PD) is a social-democratic political party in Italy.
The party's secretary, Maurizio Martina, who was elected by the national assembly in July 2018 to replace Matteo Renzi after the party's defeat in the 2018 general election, resigned on 30 October 2018, to start the 2019 leadership election campaign. Matteo Orfini serves as president.
The PD was founded on 14 October 2007 upon the merger of various centre-left parties which had been part of The Olive Tree list and The Union coalition in the 2006 general election. They notably included: the social-democratic Democrats of the Left (DS), successors of the Italian Communist Party and the Democratic Party of the Left, which was folded with several social-democratic parties (Labour Federation, Social Christians, etc.) in 1998; and the largely Catholic-inspired Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL), merger of the Italian People's Party (heir of the Christian Democracy party's left-wing), The Democrats and Italian Renewal in 2002. The PD's main ideological trends are thus social democracy and the Italian Christian leftist tradition. The party has been also influenced by social liberalism, which was already present in some of the founding components of the DS and DL, and more generally by a Third Way progressivism.
The PD was the second-largest party in Italy in the 2018 general election, and it is currently the third-largest in the Chamber of Deputies and fourth-largest in the Senate by number of MPs. As of July 2018, Democrats head eleven regional governments out of twenty and function as coalition partners in two more regions.
Since 2013 the Italian government has been led by three successive Democratic Prime Ministers: Enrico Letta (2013–2014), Matteo Renzi (2014–2016), and Paolo Gentiloni (2016–2018). Prominent Democrats include Walter Veltroni (secretary, 2007–2009), Dario Franceschini (secretary, 2009), Piero Fassino, Marco Minniti, Graziano Delrio, Pier Carlo Padoan, Carlo Calenda, Maria Elena Boschi, Federica Mogherini, Debora Serracchiani, Lorenzo Guerini, Ettore Rosato, Luigi Zanda, Sergio Chiamparino, Stefano Bonaccini, Nicola Zingaretti, Vincenzo De Luca, Michele Emiliano, Giuseppe Sala, Leoluca Orlando, Virginio Merola and Dario Nardella. Former members include Giorgio Napolitano (President of Italy, 2006–2015), Sergio Mattarella (President of Italy, since 2015), Romano Prodi, Giuliano Amato, Massimo D'Alema, Pier Luigi Bersani (secretary, 2009–2013), Guglielmo Epifani (secretary, 2013), Francesco Rutelli and Pietro Grasso.