Instead, on 29 March 2008, the National Committee proposed to its members and voters to vote according to their conscience, favouring those political forces which could stop the emerging two-party system. Most regional sections, on the example of Tuscany, indicated to vote for the Socialist Party in the election of the Chamber of Deputies and for The Left – The Rainbow in the election of the Senate. Some regional sections made different indications, notably in Veneto and Lazio in favour of the Union of the Centre, in Lombardy in favour of The People of Freedom and in Sicily in favour of the Movement for Autonomy. In July 2011 a tribunal in Rome declared Renato D'Andria legitimate secretary of the party. Magistro proposed a reconciliation between the two factions, but D'Andria did not accept the conditions posed by him. In mid November 2011, 28 members out of 31 of the outgoing National Council, including Magistro, thus left the PSDI in order to form a new party named The Social Democrats (iSD). On 11 January 2012, on the 65th anniversary of the split of Palazzo Barberini, the PSDI and iSD organized a common event in remembrance of Giuseppe Saragat. A recomposition was made difficult also by the fact that D'Andria was keen on an alliance with the centre-right (three MPs of The People of Freedom, PdL – Massimo Baldini, Giancarlo Lehner and Paolo Russo – were quite close to the new PSDI), while Magistro aligned his SD with the centre-left. In the 2013 general election the PSDI supported the PdL. In the run-up of the 2018 general election the PSDI decided to side with the centre-right Forza Italia (FI), successor of the PdL.