The faction coordinator is Marina Sereni,[1] a former member of the Democrats of the Left close to Piero Fassino.

On the issues, AD distances itself from social democracy, opposes any "compromise over legality" and justice with Silvio Berlusconi, and supports voters' participation to the life of the party through primaries.

[6] The friction was resolved, but Veltroni chose to launch a think tank named Democratica that could eventually become a new faction.

[7] In April the faction held an assembly in Cortona, attended also by Veltroni, Fassino, Franco Marini and Giuseppe Fioroni, during which Franceschini spoke openly of a possible separation from the party if it does not stick back to its original nature of a broad centre-left party committed to primaries.

[9][10] In doing this they were supported by 75 deputies: 33 Veltroniani, 35 Populars close to Fioroni and 7 former Rutelliani led by Paolo Gentiloni.