Social Christians [SEP] dissolved or abolished
the nascent Alliance of Progressives.
In the 1994 general election the party was included in the Democratic Party of the Left and obtained eight deputies and six senators, while in the 1996 general election five deputies (including Mimmo Lucà and Methodist pastor Domenico Maselli) and four senators.
In 1998 the CS fully joined the Democrats of the Left (DS) and were later a faction within that party.
In 2007 the CS were keen supporters of the merger of the DS into the Democratic Party and in first leadership election
no longer lay with the Cathedral Chapters (which were all abolished), or other responsible clergy, or the Pope, but with electors who did not even have to be Catholics or Christians. All monasteries, convents and religious orders in France were dissolved, and their members were released from their vows by order of the National Constituent Assembly (which was uncanonical); their property was confiscated "for the public good", and sold to pay the bills of the French government. Cathedral Chapters were also dissolved.
Bishops