The Republican Left was an Italian political party founded on January 30, 1994 after the Italian Republican Party

Italian Republican Party

The Italian Republican Party is a liberal political party in Italy.The PRI is party with old roots that originally took a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political position of Giuseppe Mazzini...

 (PRI) split.

After 22 January 1994 Giorgio Malfa had newly assumed the secretariat of the PRI, replacing Giorgio Bogi (until that moment secretary), National Council of the party decided to leave Democratic Alliance

Democratic Alliance (Italy)

The Democratic Alliance was an Italian political party founded in 1993, with the intent of becoming the container of an alliance of centre-left forces. However, the project did not succeed, and it presented itself as a minor party, mainly composed of former Republicans and former Communists...

 - in which the PRI was found - and to enter the coalition Pact for Italy

Pact for Italy

The Pact of Italy was a centrist electoral coalition in Italy, launched by Mario Segni and Mino Martinazzoli in 1994....

. Therefore Giorgio Bogi, Giuseppe Ayala and Libero Gualtieri left PRI as a reaction, giving birth to a small movement the Republican Left, then one component of the Democratic Alliance.

On February 13, 1998 the Republican Left merged (together with the Labour Federation

Labour Federation

The Labour Federation was a social-democratic party in Italy.It was founded in 1994 by former members of the Italian Socialist Party and was in close alliance with the Democratic Party of the Left , with which it merged in 1998 to form the Democrats of the Left...

, Social Christians

Social Christians

Social Christians is a Christian social-democratic faction within the Democratic Party, a political party in Italy....

, Unitarian Communists, Reformists for Europe

Reformists for Europe

The Reformists for Europe were a small social-democratic group in Italy.They were formed in 1997 by splinters of Democratic Union...

 and Democratic Federation

Democratic Federation (Sardinia)

Democratic Federation was a regionalist social-democratic political party in Sardinia, Italy.It was launched in 1994 basically by members of the Italian Socialist Party, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party, after that these parties were severely damaged by the...

) into the Democratic Party of the Left

Democratic Party of the Left

The Democratic Party of the Left was a post-communist, democratic socialist political party in Italy.-History:...

, thus founding the Democrats of the Left

Democrats of the Left

The Democrats of the Left was a social-democratic Italian political party and part of the Olive Tree electoral coalition, which merged with a number of centrist and leftist groups to form the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007...

 (DS). Republican Left remained a centre-left

Centre-left

Centre-left is a political term that describes individuals, political parties or organisations such as think tanks whose ideology lies between the centre and the left on the left-right spectrum...

faction within DS.