Democratic Party

The Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party's secretary is Enrico Letta, who was elected by the national assembly in March 2021, after the resignation of the former leader Nicola Zingaretti, while its president is Valentina Cuppi.The PD was established in 2007 upon the merger of various centre-left parties which had been part of The Olive Tree list in the 2006 general election, mainly the social-democratic Democrats of the Left, successor of the Italian Communist Party and the Democratic Party of the Left, which was folded with several social-democratic parties in 1998, and the largely Catholic-inspired Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, a merger of the Italian People's Party, The Democrats, and Italian Renewal in 2002.