The Sunflower

This article is about the political alliance. For the book by Simon Wiesenthal, see The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. For the character in the Conker series, see List of characters in the Conker series § The Sunflower.

The Sunflower
Leader	Enrico Boselli, Grazia Francescato
Founded	26 February 2001
Dissolved	May 2001
Ideology	Social democracy, Green politics
National affiliation	The Olive Tree
Colors	Green and red
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

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

• Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi)
• Italian Democratic Socialists (Socialisti Democratici Italiani, SDI)

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.