In July 2022, the
centre-right coalition was forecast to win a parliamentary
absolute majority under the
Rosatellum electoral law of 2017, which was pushed by the
Democratic Party (PD) under
Matteo Renzi's leadership and was now rejected by the party under the leadership of
Enrico Letta. Some early
opinion polling for the 2022 Italian general election showed that the only way to avoid a right-wing alliance victory was the formation of a large
big tent coalition including the PD, minor left-wing and centrist parties, and the PD's 2019–2021 government ally, the
Five Star Movement (M5S). As the PD blamed the M5S for causing the fall of
Mario Draghi's government, an alliance was excluded from both sides, despite some pressure from the left to maintain the PD–M5S alliance. They remained allies at the regional level, such as in Liguria and Sicily, though not without criticism and issues. On 29 July, Letta announced the formation of a joint list between the PD,
Article One (Art.1), the
Italian Socialist Party (PSI), and
Solidary Democracy (DemoS) in the upcoming general election, and was officially founded that same day. Other minor parties joined later. In early August 2022,
Action and
More Europe formed a political pact with the PD that would have given 3 candidates in single-seat constituencies to them for every 7 candidates given to the PD. When the PD signed a pact with the
Greens and Left Alliance (formed by
Green Europe and
Italian Left) and
Civic Commitment (led by
Luigi Di Maio and
Bruno Tabacci), Calenda said he was walking away from the pact. This decision cast doubts over the federation with More Europe, which continued their alliance with the PD. In the election on 25 September, the centre-left coalition led by the PD–IP slightly improved its 2018 results in terms of vote share and seats in percentage, polling 19%. Due to the
first-past-the-post part of the voting, the centre-right took advantage of a divided left and centre to obtain an
absolute majority of seats. Having soon conceded the election, Letta announced his resignation as party secretary, and he said that the PD–IP would provide a "strong and intransigent opposition". == Composition ==