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Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese

The statute of "Partito Democratico Cristiano Sammarinese" describes the party flag as follows (in Article 1 from Title 1):
"L'emblema del Partito è l'effige del patrono San marino. La bandiera è il vessillo bianco-azzurro in due bande orrizontali recante l'emblema al centro."
[The party emblem is the effigy of the patron San Marino. The banner is a flag horizontally divided white-blue with the emblem in the middle.]. See <www.pdcs.sm>.
The flag is unfortunately not shown on the party website, which only shows the emblem. Anyway, I guess that the emblem, when placed on the flag or used on official documents, shows the saint in a vertical position rather than tilted as shown on the website.
Ivan Sache, 15 November 2001


Partito Comunista Sammarinese

I noticed a video on youtube about the San Marino "Rovereta Affair" at https://www.youtube.com. There were some flag like images, but the one I was sure off was at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlywur_QEx4&t=360s. This was the Partito Comunista Sammarinese: The SM communist party at the time of the affair.

It's a red flag with in the three mountains with their towers, below them the hammer and sickle, and at the bottom the name of the party.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 23 May 2025

The flag, along with several other which were used by the party, was presented in Schmöger, [smg11], "Political Party Flags of San Marino" at ICV 24 (Alexandria, 2011): https://fiav.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/icv24schmoeger.pdf
Tomislav Todorovic, 26 May 2025

Let me add that the inscription is bowed upwards, the tower doors are black, and there is a down-pointing five-pointed star centered at the top edge of the flag, above the middle tower; somewhat surprisingly, the ostrich feathers are not absent. All these are yellow.

(In this same video, there is footage of this flag flying in the wind, hoisted to a pole, seen from below: I’m almost sure this is not actually filmed, but rather programmatically rendered in animation, even if it’s photo-realistic.)

The author informs that this flag is in the "archive of the current PSD" and describes it thus:"The earliest flag (Fig. 6) shows the party name under a star and hammer & sickle on a red field, accompanied by a stylized version of the central element of the Sammarinese arms, the three towers on three mountains; the mountains are depicted remarkably flat. The flag is a single item, fringed on three sides, the emblems embroidered in a now bleached golden colour."

That latter detail is important, as apparently the maker of this video didn’t observe carefully and used white elements on red for the diagrams and ornamental animation.
 
António Martins-Tuválkin, 28 May 2025