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Democratic Space

Christian-democratic faction within the Democratic Party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2023
Entity authorityQ21030046 ↗
Source-derived summary

Democratic Space (Spazio Democratico, SD) is a Christian-democratic faction within the Democratic Party (PD), a political party in Italy.

It was launched in February 2015 by a group of leading Christian democrats, mainly Christian leftists in the tradition of Giuseppe Dossetti and Giorgio La Pira, who supported Matteo Renzi's leadership. They notably included Graziano Delrio, Lorenzo Guerini, Matteo Richetti and Angelo Rughetti.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Democratic, Space and Christian-democratic is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Democratic Space” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.