{{Infobox political party | name = Sovereign Popular Democracy | native_name = Democrazia Sovrana Popolare | colorcode = {{party color|Sovereign Popular Democracy}} | logo = 160px | leader1_title = President | leader1_name = Francesco Toscano | leader2_title = Coordinator | leader2_name = Marco Rizzo | foundation = {{start date|2023|01|22|df=y}} | predecessor = Sovereign and Popular Italy | dissolution = | ideology = Populism<br />Sovereigntism<br />Hard Euroscepticism | position = Big tent (claimed) | european = | europarl = | seats1_title = Chamber of Deputies | seats1 = {{composition bar|0|400|hex={{party color|Sovereign Popular Democracy}}}} | seats2_title = Senate | seats2 = {{composition bar|0|200|hex={{party color|Sovereign Popular Democracy}}}} | seats3_title = European Parliament | seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|73|hex={{party color|Sovereign Popular Democracy}}}} | seats4_title = Regional <br />Councils | seats4 = {{Composition bar|0|897|hex={{party color|Sovereign Popular Italy}}}} | website = [https://democraziasovranapopolare.it democraziasovranapopolare.it] | country = Italy | abbreviation = DSP | flag = }} '''Sovereign Popular Democracy''' ({{langx|it|Democrazia Sovrana Popolare}}, '''DSP''') is a populist,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-07-31 |title=Ingroia-Azione Civile: con Rizzo-Donato l'ex pm punta al polpettone populista |url=https://www.affaritaliani.it/politica/ingroia-azione-civile-con-rizzo-donato-l-ex-pm-punta-al-polpettone-populista-809246.html |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=Affaritaliani.it |language=it}}</ref> sovereignist<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ansa |first=Agenzia |date=2022-08-01 |title=Elezioni, nasce 'Italia sovrana e popolare' |url=https://www.gazzettadiparma.it/italia-mondo/2022/08/01/video/elezioni-nasce-italia-sovrana-e-popolare-660262/ |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=www.gazzettadiparma.it |language=it}}</ref> and Eurosceptic<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-01 |title=Elezioni, nasce 'Italia sovrana e popolare' |url=https://stream24.ilsole24ore.com/video/italia/elezioni-nasce-italia-sovrana-e-popolare-/AEWDJcqB |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=Il Sole 24 ORE |language=it}}</ref> political party in Italy, formed in January 2023. Its leader is Marco Rizzo. The party claims to be neither right-wing nor left-wing.<ref>{{cite web |last=Barra |first=Sossio |title=Intervista a Marco Rizzo: "Destra e sinistra vanno superate nel nome dell'unità del popolo" |website=OGGI CAMPANIA |date=April 13, 2025 |url=https://www.oggicampania.it/2025/04/13/intervista-a-marco-rizzo-destra-e-sinistra-vanno-superate-nel-nome-dellunita-del-popolo/ |language=it |access-date=August 5, 2025}}</ref>
==History== After participating in the 2022 Italian general election under the name Sovereign and Popular Italy, the list was officially dissolved in December 2022 by mutual agreement of its leaders, Marco Rizzo and Francesco Toscano. This happened after Francesco Toscano left his party, Italy Again, to launch a new party called Sovereign and Popular Italy Again (AISP).<ref>{{cite web |last1=D'Andrea |first1=Stefano |title=Perché ISP, dopo il 25 settembre, non ha fatto nemmeno un passo e perché io, Rizzo e Toscano l'abbiamo sciolta |url=https://www.facebook.com/stefano.dandrea.10/posts/pfbid02nYeFrCGZzN8VQmL3orEyre55AXb9pytDB2QCrrWz2h4k9kxfLeCw8nZU79QmnQSyl |website=Facebook |access-date=29 December 2022 |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fronteampio.it/muore-italia-sovrana-nasce-ancora-italia-sovrana | title=Muore Italia Sovrana, nasce Ancora Italia Sovrana! | date=31 December 2022 }}</ref>
On 13 January 2023, the National Political Committee of Sovereign Popular Democracy was elected in Rome, followed by the election of the Scientific Committee on 14 January.<ref>{{cite news |title=Azione Civile, nuovo progetto politico alle porte: nasce "Democrazia Sovrana Popolare" |url=https://www.moliseweb.it/info.php?id=48439 |access-date=26 July 2023 |work=Molise Web |date=16 January 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref> On 22 January, Marco Rizzo officially launched the party on YouTube. The party includes Marco Rizzo's Communist Party, Francesco Toscano's Sovereign and Popular Italy Again, Gilberto Trombetta's Front for Popular Sovereignty (a split from Reconquer Italy, which had previously participated in ISP), and Antonio Ingroia's Civil Action.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.affaritaliani.it/politica/democrazia-sovrana-popolare-rizzo-835906.html | title=Nasce Democrazia sovrana popolare. Rizzo: "Così cambieremo la società" }}</ref>
In July, Gilberto Trombetta: and Enrico Bonfatti denounced on social media the expulsion of Trombetta and his party from DSP, as well as the expulsion of Civil Action, CLNI, FISI and the former senator Bianca Laura Granato, who was the president of AISP. The latter was expelled after writing a letter to Secretary Rizzo in defense of Trombetta.<ref>{{cite web |title=L’ESPULSIONE DEL FRONTE PER LA SOVRANITÀ POPOLARE |url=https://www.facebook.com/fronteperlasovranitapopolare/posts/pfbid07Axs7aKBqQBh8wXUq1D6fkrGDJ3b3jWP9UAvDq5SDgtuMzfbUfDmsyAkuMF4iLTUl |website=Facebook |access-date=26 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Il Fronte per la Sovranità Popolare ringrazia Bianca Laura Granato per il suo coraggio e la sua coerenza politica che l'hanno spinta a rendere pubblica la lettera inviata il 28 giugno a Francesco Toscano e a Marco Rizzo. Lettera alla quale non ha ovviamente mai ricevuto risposta |url=https://www.facebook.com/fronteperlasovranitapopolare/posts/pfbid02RobbvzA4TgVYWswn7eN4X225FvvoKExpLhPjQ9amNa62UKyHjhj8NtGToT7PcdqXl |website=Facebook |publisher=Fronte per la Sovranità Italiana |access-date=26 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref> For Popular Sovereign Democracy he ran for the presidency of the autonomous province of Trento in the 2023 Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections, taking just over 2% (over 5,000 votes), which is not enough to be elected councilor.<ref> {{Cite web |title=Elezioni Trento (Regionali Trentino-Alto Adige 2023): i risultati in diretta {{!}}Corriere.it |url=https://www.corriere.it/elezioni/risultati-regionali-2023/trentino-alto-adige/trento_022.shtml |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=Corriere della Sera |language=it-IT}} </ref>.
Between 27 and 28 January 2024, the founding congress of Sovereign Popular Democracy was held, with Rizzo being elected national coordinator.<ref> https://www.agenziagiornalisticaopinione.it/opinionews/democrazia-sovrana-popolare-roma-congresso-nazionale-francesco-toscano-eletto-presidente-marco-rizzo-coordinatore/ </ref><ref> {{Cite web |date=2024-01-28 |title=Rizzo, al via il partito pacifista e anti-élite |url=https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2024/01/28/rizzo-al-via-il-partito-pacifista-e-anti-elite/7424884/ |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=Il Fatto Quotidiano |language=it-IT}} </ref> In the same period, The Reasons for a Choice. For a Sovereign and Popular Democracy, a book written with Francesco Toscano, was published.<ref> {{Cite web |title=Le ragioni di una scelta. Per una democrazia sovrana e popolare - Francesco Toscano - Marco Rizzo - - Libro - Visione Tv - {{!}} IBS |url=https://www.ibs.it/ragioni-di-scelta-per-democrazia-libro-francesco-toscano-marco-rizzo/e/9788894789102 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250224045207/https://www.ibs.it/ragioni-di-scelta-per-democrazia-libro-francesco-toscano-marco-rizzo/e/9788894789102 |archive-date=2025-02-24 |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=www.ibs.it |language=it}} </ref>
The hypothesis of joining the Freedom list promoted by Cateno De Luca of South calls Nord having faded away,<ref> {{Cite web |last=Cammaroto |first=Emanuele |date=2024-03-21 |title=Europee, De Luca rompe con Rizzo e Alemanno e punta sull'"effetto Valle d'Aosta" |url=https://ilsicilia.it/europee-de-luca-rompe-con-rizzo-e-alemanno-e-punta-sulleffetto-valle-daosta/ |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=ilSicilia.it |language=it-IT}} </ref> DSP will not be able to collect the necessary signatures to present the lists for the 2024 European elections in all the constituencies, managing, thanks to the support of Gianni Alemanno, to present itself only in the central one where Rizzo, as head of the list, collects over 6,500 preferences contributing to the total 0.15% of the list.<ref> {{Cite web |date=2026-02-08 |title=Le elezioni |url=https://dait.interno.gov.it/ |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=Dipartimento per gli Affari Interni e Territoriali |language=it}} </ref> Alemanno and Rizzo together support the DSP candidate Daniele Giovanardi (1.40%) in the municipal elections of Modena and also Patrizio Sgarra in Giaveno (1.59%).<ref> {{Cite web |date=2024-03-30 |title=Arriva la lista rossobruna: postfascisti di Alemanno e neocomunisti di Rizzo a Modena candidano il fratello dell’ex dc Giovanardi |url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2024/03/30/news/giovanardi_candidato_sindaco_modena-422399984/ |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=la Repubblica |language=it}} </ref>
On July 6, 2024, the Central Committee of the Communist Party announced that Rizzo had resigned from his position as Honorary President of the party and that, from that moment on, members of the Communist Party may no longer simultaneously be members of Sovereign Popular Democracy.<ref> {{Cite web |last=PC |date=2024-07-09 |title=Dispositivo approvato dal Comitato Centrale il 6 luglio 2024 |url=https://ilpartitocomunista.it/dispositivo-approvato-dal-comitato-centrale-il-6-luglio-2024-in/ |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=IL PARTITO COMUNISTA - Sito Ufficiale |language=it-IT}} </ref>
Rizzo then ran for the presidency of Umbria in the 2024 Umbrian regional election on 17-18 November with Sovereign Popular Democracy and Reformist Alternative.<ref> {{Cite web |last= |first= |date=14 July 2024 |title=Elezioni regionali, arriva "Umbria Sovrana nel cuore": Marco Rizzo si candida presidente |url=https://www.perugiatoday.it/politica/elezioni-regionali-arriva-umbria-sovrana-nel-cuore-marco-rizzo-si-candida-presidente.html |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=PerugiaToday |language=it}} </ref><ref> {{Cite web |last= |first= |date=19 October 2024 |title=Elezioni regionali Umbria 2024, è il giorno delle liste: tutti i candidati |url=https://www.ternitoday.it/politica/elezioni-regionali-umbria-2024-e-il-giorno-delle-liste-tutti-i-candidati.html |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=TerniToday |language=it}} </ref><ref> {{Cite web |title=Guida alle elezioni regionali in Umbria |url=https://pagellapolitica.it/articoli/guida-elezioni-regionali-umbria |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=Pagella Politica |language=it}} </ref> Having presented himself with two lists, Rizzo, with 1.11%, placed third behind the two candidates of the centre-left and centre-right coalitions, but was not elected. In October 2025, Rizzo announced his candidacy also in the 2025 Venetian regional election at the end of November, placing fourth with 1.09%.<ref> {{Cite web |title=Guida alle elezioni regionali in Umbria |url=https://pagellapolitica.it/articoli/guida-elezioni-regionali-umbria |access-date=2026-02-09 |website=Pagella Politica |language=it}} </ref> ==Election results== ===European Parliament=== {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! Election ! Leader ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/– ! EP Group |- ! 2024 | Marco Rizzo | 36,225 (13th) | 0.15 | {{Composition bar|0|76|hex={{party color|Sovereign Popular Democracy}}}} | New | – |}
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Italian political parties}} Category:2022 establishments in Italy Category:Opposition to NATO Category:Political parties established in 2023 Category:Political party alliances in Italy