 Socialist Party (Italy, 1996)

The Socialist Party (, PS) was a tiny social-democratic political party in Italy.The party was founded in 1996 by a group of former members of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) who had been close allies of Bettino Craxi, former Prime Minister of Italy and leader of the PSI from 1976 to 1992, and who did not join the Italian Socialists of Enrico Boselli.