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Greens and Left Alliance
The Greens and Left Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, AVS) is a left-wing political alliance active in Italy, which was launched on 2 July 2022 as a federation of two political parties, Italian Left (SI) and Green Europe (EV). AVS is often referred to as a red–green alliance and its leaders are Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni, spokespersons of EV and SI.
In January 2022, Italian Left (SI) and Green Europe (EV) formed a "consultation pact", aimed at co-operating on the 2022 Italian presidential election held in late January. In that context, the two parties decided to jointly support Luigi Manconi, an expert on human rights issues and former lawmaker for the Federation of the Greens, the Democrats of the Left, and the Democratic Party (PD). In June 2022, SI's national assembly formally approved the alliance with EV, which did the same in its federal assembly.
In July 2022, SI and EV held a joint convention in Rome named "New Energies", promoting their cooperation and a unitary electoral program. The alliance deliberately took inspiration from the New Ecological and Social People's Union, the left-wing list formed in the run-up of the 2022 French legislative election. Following the fall of Mario Draghi's government, a national unity government that was not supported by SI and EV, the early dissolution of Parliament and the calling of the 2022 Italian general election, AVS was officially launched and its logo presented.
In August 2022, AVS formalised an electoral agreement with the PD. In the election, it won 3.6% of the vote. In February 2024, Massimiliano Smeriglio, a member of the European Parliament (MEP) elected with the PD, switched to AVS. In May Rosa D'Amato, a MEP elected with the Five Star Movement, joined AVS. In the following 2024 European Parliament election AVS had its first real electoral breakthrough with 6.8% of the vote and six MEPs elected. They included Ilaria Salis, Mimmo Lucano, Ignazio Marino, Cristina Guarda, Leoluca Orlando and Benedetta Scuderi. Salis and Lucano, both independents close to SI, joined The Left group, while the other four, Guarda and Scuderi EV members and Marino and Orlando independents close to EV, joined Greens–European Free Alliance. The first party's national celebration, Terra!, was held between 11 and 15 September 2024 in Rome, in the Nomentano Park.
Since 2024, AVS started to participate in regional elections consistently as a joint alliance. AVS had particularly good results, in 2024, in Sardinia (4.7%), Piedmont (6.8%) and Liguria (6.2%) and, in 2025, in Aosta Valley along with Civic Network (6.3%), Tuscany (7.0%), Campania (4.7%) and Veneto (4.6%). In December 2025, in Campania, Zabatta was appointed by president Roberto Fico as regional minister of Youth Policies, Sports, Civil Protection, Biodiversity, Reforestation Policies, Fishing, Aquaculture and Animal protection.
AVS was born with the aim of keeping social justice and environmental justice together. On the basis of its programmes, it was defined as the best Italian party for "climate commitment" by the scientists and experts of Climalteranti and the Italian Climate Network.
AVS supports the protection and expansion of workers' rights and welfare. It proposes the introduction of a minimum wage (of 9 or 10 euros per hour), the reduction of working hours (for the same salary), also establishing a fund to encourage employers to reduce weekly hours by at least 10%, a national plan for the prevention of accidents at work, incentive of remote work for workers whose presence is not physically required, the abolition of unpaid internships, the protection of the right to disconnect, the increase of the worker's control over the flexibility of working hours, and the fight against precariousness by limiting the different types of employment contracts, in order to make the permanent contract the norm. It also proposes increasing the duration of paternity leave and making it compulsory and equal to maternity leave, in order to put women and men "on the same level in relation to the employer".
It supports the introduction of a universal basic income, as well as a pension starting (at least for certain types of workers) from the age of 62 (or with 41 years of contributions) and in general not less than 1,000 euros per month. It supports the strengthening of public education and proposes, in this regard, the reduction of the number of students per class in schools and the recovery of public spaces for new classrooms, the extension of time (full-time and extended time) in all schools, compulsory schooling up to 18 years, the hiring of a larger number of permanent teachers (stabilizing even those who have been teaching precariously for longer), the introduction of sexual and affective education throughout the school career, permanent psychological support in schools, and free education from preschool to university (as is the case in other European countries). It also proposes greater investment in research, bringing it to 3% of GDP.
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Greens and Left Alliance
The Greens and Left Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Verdi e Sinistra, AVS) is a left-wing political alliance active in Italy, which was launched on 2 July 2022 as a federation of two political parties, Italian Left (SI) and Green Europe (EV). AVS is often referred to as a red–green alliance and its leaders are Angelo Bonelli and Nicola Fratoianni, spokespersons of EV and SI.
In January 2022, Italian Left (SI) and Green Europe (EV) formed a "consultation pact", aimed at co-operating on the 2022 Italian presidential election held in late January. In that context, the two parties decided to jointly support Luigi Manconi, an expert on human rights issues and former lawmaker for the Federation of the Greens, the Democrats of the Left, and the Democratic Party (PD). In June 2022, SI's national assembly formally approved the alliance with EV, which did the same in its federal assembly.
In July 2022, SI and EV held a joint convention in Rome named "New Energies", promoting their cooperation and a unitary electoral program. The alliance deliberately took inspiration from the New Ecological and Social People's Union, the left-wing list formed in the run-up of the 2022 French legislative election. Following the fall of Mario Draghi's government, a national unity government that was not supported by SI and EV, the early dissolution of Parliament and the calling of the 2022 Italian general election, AVS was officially launched and its logo presented.
In August 2022, AVS formalised an electoral agreement with the PD. In the election, it won 3.6% of the vote. In February 2024, Massimiliano Smeriglio, a member of the European Parliament (MEP) elected with the PD, switched to AVS. In May Rosa D'Amato, a MEP elected with the Five Star Movement, joined AVS. In the following 2024 European Parliament election AVS had its first real electoral breakthrough with 6.8% of the vote and six MEPs elected. They included Ilaria Salis, Mimmo Lucano, Ignazio Marino, Cristina Guarda, Leoluca Orlando and Benedetta Scuderi. Salis and Lucano, both independents close to SI, joined The Left group, while the other four, Guarda and Scuderi EV members and Marino and Orlando independents close to EV, joined Greens–European Free Alliance. The first party's national celebration, Terra!, was held between 11 and 15 September 2024 in Rome, in the Nomentano Park.
Since 2024, AVS started to participate in regional elections consistently as a joint alliance. AVS had particularly good results, in 2024, in Sardinia (4.7%), Piedmont (6.8%) and Liguria (6.2%) and, in 2025, in Aosta Valley along with Civic Network (6.3%), Tuscany (7.0%), Campania (4.7%) and Veneto (4.6%). In December 2025, in Campania, Zabatta was appointed by president Roberto Fico as regional minister of Youth Policies, Sports, Civil Protection, Biodiversity, Reforestation Policies, Fishing, Aquaculture and Animal protection.
AVS was born with the aim of keeping social justice and environmental justice together. On the basis of its programmes, it was defined as the best Italian party for "climate commitment" by the scientists and experts of Climalteranti and the Italian Climate Network.
AVS supports the protection and expansion of workers' rights and welfare. It proposes the introduction of a minimum wage (of 9 or 10 euros per hour), the reduction of working hours (for the same salary), also establishing a fund to encourage employers to reduce weekly hours by at least 10%, a national plan for the prevention of accidents at work, incentive of remote work for workers whose presence is not physically required, the abolition of unpaid internships, the protection of the right to disconnect, the increase of the worker's control over the flexibility of working hours, and the fight against precariousness by limiting the different types of employment contracts, in order to make the permanent contract the norm. It also proposes increasing the duration of paternity leave and making it compulsory and equal to maternity leave, in order to put women and men "on the same level in relation to the employer".
It supports the introduction of a universal basic income, as well as a pension starting (at least for certain types of workers) from the age of 62 (or with 41 years of contributions) and in general not less than 1,000 euros per month. It supports the strengthening of public education and proposes, in this regard, the reduction of the number of students per class in schools and the recovery of public spaces for new classrooms, the extension of time (full-time and extended time) in all schools, compulsory schooling up to 18 years, the hiring of a larger number of permanent teachers (stabilizing even those who have been teaching precariously for longer), the introduction of sexual and affective education throughout the school career, permanent psychological support in schools, and free education from preschool to university (as is the case in other European countries). It also proposes greater investment in research, bringing it to 3% of GDP.