List of political parties in San Marino
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San Marino
has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition government
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San Marino
San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino , is a state situated on the Italian Peninsula on the eastern side of the Apennine Mountains. It is an enclave surrounded by Italy. Its size is just over with an estimated population of over 30,000. Its capital is the City of San Marino...
has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition government
Coalition government
A coalition government is a cabinet of a parliamentary government in which several political parties cooperate. The usual reason given for this arrangement is that no party on its own can achieve a majority in the parliament...
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The parties
Due to the new electoral law which resembles the Italian electoral system for Parliament, Sammarinese political parties are organized in two major coalitions:- Pact for San MarinoPact for San MarinoPact for San Marino is a right-wing coalition of parties for the 2008 general election in San Marino.It is composed of four lists for a total of eight parties:*Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party , including also:...
(Patto per San Marino) - Reforms and FreedomReforms and FreedomReforms and Freedom is a left-wing coalition of parties for the 2008 general election in San Marino.It is composed of three lists for a total of five parties:*Party of Socialists and Democrats , including also:...
(Riforme e Libertà)
Pact for San Marino
- Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party (Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese)
- Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party (Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese)
- Euro-Populars for San MarinoEuro-Populars for San MarinoThe Euro-Populars for San Marino are a christian-democratic political party in San Marino.It emerged in September 2007 as a split from the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party . It held 5 seats out of 60 in the Grand and General Council prior to the elections from its time as part of the PDCS...
(Europopolari per San Marino) - Arengo and FreedomArengo and FreedomArengo and Freedom is a liberal and social liberal political party in San Marino.It was founded in September 2008 by two splinters from the Party of Socialists and Democrats, Fabio Berardi and Nadia Ottaviani, both members of the Grand and General Council, who considered the party to be too...
(Arengo e Libertà)
- Popular Alliance (Alleanza Popolare)
- Freedom ListFreedom ListFreedom List is a political coalition for the 2008 general election in San Marino, composed of:*New Socialist Party *We Sammarinese...
(Lista della Libertà)- New Socialist PartyNew Socialist Party (San Marino)The New Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in San Marino.It was formed in 2005 as a split by those among the members of the Sammarinese Socialist Party who did not accept the merger with the post-communist Party of Democrats into the Party of Socialists and Democrats...
(Nuovo Partito Socialista) - We Sammarinese (Noi Sammarinesi)
- New Socialist Party
- Sammarinese Union of ModeratesSammarinese Union of ModeratesThe Sammarinese Union of Moderates is a right-wing, christian-democratic, conservative, and national conservative political coalition in San Marino....
(Unione Sammarinese dei Moderati)- Sammarinese Populars (Popolari Sammarinesi)
- Sammarinese National Alliance (Alleanza Nazionale Sammarinese)
Reforms and Freedom
- Party of Socialists and DemocratsParty of Socialists and DemocratsThe Party of Socialists and Democrats is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in San Marino. It is a member of the Socialist International and its current-day Italian counterpart is the Democratic Party....
(Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici)- Party of Socialists and DemocratsParty of Socialists and DemocratsThe Party of Socialists and Democrats is a centre-left, social-democratic political party in San Marino. It is a member of the Socialist International and its current-day Italian counterpart is the Democratic Party....
(Partito dei Socialisti e dei Democratici) - Sammarinese for Freedom (Sammarinesi per la Libertà)
- Party of Socialists and Democrats
- United LeftUnited Left (San Marino)United Left is a left-wing political coalition in San Marino.It was founded in 2006 by the Sammarinese Communist Refoundation, formed by those who did not agree with the transformation of the Sammarinese Communist Party into the Sammarinese Democratic Progressive Party in 1992, and the Left Party,...
(Sinistra Unita)- Sammarinese Communist Refoundation (Rifondazione Comunista Sammarinese)
- Left Party (Partito della Sinistra)
- Centre DemocratsCentre Democrats (San Marino)The Centre Democrats are a social christian political party in San Marino. Its Italian counterpart is The Daisy.It emerged in 2007 as a left-wing split from the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party...
(Democratici di Centro)
Other parties
- Sammarinese Democratic Party (Partito Democratico Sammarinese)
- Sammarinese Reformist Socialist PartySammarinese Reformist Socialist PartyThe Sammarinese Reformist Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in San Marino formed from a regional split from the Party of Socialists and Democrats in Borgo Maggiore....
(Partito Socialista Riformista Sammarinese) - San Marino of Values (San Marino dei Valori)
Former parties
- City and Territory (Città e Territorio)
- Committee for the Defense of the Republic (Comitato per la Difesa della Repubblica)
- Committee of Freedom (Comitato della Libertà)
- Democratic Reformers (Riformisti Democratici)
- Democratic Sammarinese Union (Unione Sammarinese Democratica)
- Democratic Movement (Movimento Democratico)
- Democratic Union (Unione Democratica)
- Socialists – Ideas in Motion (Socialisti – Idee in Movimento)
- Movement for Constitutional FreedomsMovement for Constitutional FreedomsThe Movement for Constitutional Freedoms was a liberal political party in San Marino.It was launched on 21 April 1964 by Leo Dominicini and its main goals were to defend civil liverties and to reinforce constitutional checks and balances...
(Movimento per le Libertà Statuarie) - Party of DemocratsParty of DemocratsThe Party of Democrats was a social-democratic political party in San Marino. Its Italian counterpart was the Democrats of the Left....
(Partito dei Democratici) - Republican Fasces of San Marino (Fascio Repubblicano di San Marino)
- Sammarinese Independent Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Indipendente Sammarinese)
- Sammarinese Communist Party (Partito Comunista Sammarinese)
- Sammarinese Democratic Progressive Party (Partito Progressista Democratico Sammarinese)
- Sammarinese Fascist PartySammarinese Fascist PartyThe Sammarinese Fascist Party or Partito Fascista Sammarinese was a fascist political party that ruled San Marino from 1923 to 1943....
(Partito Fascista Sammarinese) - Sammarinese Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Sammarinese)
- Sammarinese Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Sammarinese)
- Sammarinese Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Sammarinese)
- Socialist Democracy (Democrazia Socialista)
- Socialists for Reforms (Socialisti per le Riforme)
- United Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Unitario)
See also
- Politics of San MarinoPolitics of San MarinoPolitics of San Marino takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Captains Regent are the heads of state, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Grand...
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