The Sunflower Explained

The Sunflower
Native Name:Il Girasole
Leader:Enrico Boselli,
Grazia Francescato
Foundation:26 February 2001
Dissolution:May 2001
Position:Centre-left to left-wing
Ideology:Social democracy
Green politics
National:The Olive Tree
Colors:Green and red
Colorcode:green
Country:Italy

The Sunflower was an electoral alliance of two Italian centre-left parties for the 2001 Italian general election, namely:

The Sunflower was founded to benefit from the proportional list voting system employed in the election; however, the member parties received too few votes to benefit from their alliance. They did manage to enter parliament via its participation on the Olive Tree list, however, so the electoral alliance was disbanded soon afterwards.