Articolo Uno, a center-left party formed in 2017 as a result of a schism in the Democratic Party (PD), has disbanded. The decision was made at the party's general assembly on Saturday and Sunday in Naples: Articolo Uno will now be an association, and its members, including Pier Luigi Bersani, will rejoin the PD. The possibility of dissolving Articolo Uno had been discussed for months, particularly following Elly Schlein's PD's primary victory and the party's subsequent shift to the left. Schlein, who was present at the Naples assembly, described Articolo Uno's return to the PD as a "family reunification." Articolo Uno, whose official name was Articolo Uno - Democratic and Progressive Movement, was formed in February 2017 after some historical members of the PD decided to leave the party in dissatisfaction with the then-secretary Matteo Renzi, who was accused of authoritarian and bossy management of the party and of wanting to move it towards increasingly less left-wing positions. Among those who left the PD were several historical party leaders who came from the Italian Communist Party and its subsequent offshoots, including former secretaries Pier Luigi Bersani and Guglielmo Epifani, former Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, former Tuscany region president Enrico Rossi, and Roberto Speranza, who was later appointed secretary of the new formation.