Cambiamo! (, also stylized as C!) was a
centre-right
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political party
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in
Italy
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, led by
Giovanni Toti
Giovanni Toti (born 7 September 1968) is an Italian journalist and politician, who has been President of Liguria from 2015 to 2024. Toti was also elected to the European Parliament, following the 2014 European Parliament election.
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.
History
Background and beginnings

In June 2019, after the
European Parliament election
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,
Silvio Berlusconi
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appointed
Giovanni Toti
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,
president
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of
Liguria
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, and
Mara Carfagna, a former minister, national coordinators of
Forza Italia
(FI; ) was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy, with Christian democratic,Chiara Moroni, , Carocci, Rome 2008 liberalOreste Massari, ''I partiti politici nelle democrazie contempoiranee'', Laterza, Rome-Bari 2004 (esp ...
(FI), with the goal of reforming and relaunching the party. However, after a few weeks, Toti left the party in opposition to Berlusconi, who had not endorsed Toti's proposal for open primaries, and launched Cambiamo!. The reasons of the split were FI's lack of internal democracy and lack of clarity on the alliance with the
League and the
Brothers of Italy
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(FdI) at country-level, which he definitely supported.
In September four deputies (
Stefano Benigni, Manuela Gagliardi, Claudio Pedrazzini and Alessandro Sorte) officially left FI in order to join C! Along with a fifth deputy who had earlier left FI (
Giorgio Silli), they renamed the "Dream Italy–
10 Times Better" sub-group within the
Mixed Group
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as "Cambiamo!–
10 Times Better". Additionally, four senators (Massimo Vittorio Berutti,
Gaetano Quagliariello
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Biography
Quagliariello was born in Naples in 1960. During the University he was ...
,
Paolo Romani
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Early life
Romani was born in Milan on 18 September 1947. He has a high school diploma.
Career
Romani worked as ...
and Luigi Vitali), as well as several regional councillors from
Lombardy
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(including Romani's son) and
Lazio
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followed suit.
Centrist turn
In the
2020 Emilia-Romagna regional election C! ran in a joint list with
The People of the Family, gaining 0.3% of the vote. In the
2020 Ligurian regional election party leader Toti was re-elected president with 56.1% of the vote, while C! (full name: ''Cambiamo con Toti Presidente'') gained 22.6% of the vote. In the
2020 Tuscan regional election the party obtained 1.0% of the vote and no seats.
Despite its beginnings, by the end of 2020 C! became a proponent of a more moderate version of conservatism in comparison with FI. The party thus gave strong support to the formation of a
national unity government
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as a replacement of
Giuseppe Conte
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's centre-left
government
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. In February 2021, amid the formation of
Mario Draghi
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's national unity
government
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, which was supported also by the League and FI, as well as by the main centre-left parties, C! started to attract new members from the more centrist wing of FI. As a result, the party was able to form a larger sub-group within the Chamber's Mixed Group, comprising ten deputies (including eight who were full members of the party).
In May 2021 C! was a founding member of a new joint party named
Coraggio Italia (CI), whose main leaders were Toti and
Luigi Brugnaro
Luigi Brugnaro (born 13 September 1961) is an Italian conservative politician and entrepreneur who has been the mayor of Venice, since taking office on 15 June 2015. Since July 2021, he is also president of Coraggio Italia (CI), a political par ...
,
mayor of Venice. CI formed a parliamentary group in the Chamber with more than 20 deputies. However, two C! deputies, Benigni and Sorte, left the party.
Italy in the Centre
In less than a year, CI, which had failed to attract substantial support among voters, according to
opinion polls
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, experienced an internal crisis. On one side Toti wanted to form an alliance with
Matteo Renzi
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's
Italia Viva
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party and launched a new political party named
Italy in the Centre
Italy in the Centre (, IaC) was a liberal-conservative political party in Italy led by Giovanni Toti.
History
In August 2019, Giovanni Toti left his former party Forza Italia (FI), and formed Cambiamo! (C!). In May 2021, C! was a founding ...
(IaC), on the other side Brugnaro rejected establishment politics
and wanted to continue to be part of the
centre-right coalition
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. In February 2022 CI's sub-group within the
Mixed Group
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, previously named "IDeA–Cambiamo!–Europeanists", was re-named "Italy in the Centre". In March, a federation between Coraggio Italia and Italy in the Centre was announced, stating that they would have different organisations and parliamentary groupings. In May, during a meeting of the national leadership, a provisional statute of Italy in the Centre was approved and regional coordinators and a secretariat were appointed, practically supplanting Cambiamo!.
In the
2022 local elections CI and IaC ran separately in most places. CI obtained relevant results only in
Veneto
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, Brugnaro's home-region, most notably 5.2% in
Verona
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and 4.4% in
Padua
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, while IaC won 9.2% in
Genoa
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, 8.5% in
La Spezia
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, 3.7% in
Rieti
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T ...
, 5.2% in
L'Aquila
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and 4.3% in
Catanzaro
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, where another list named "Cambiamo!" obtained 5.3% of the vote.
In late June 2022 CI and IaC formally split both in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
As of mid 2022 C! is mostly inactive. Its Facebook page is no longer visible, and its official website has not been updated since the summer of 2021.
Election results
Regional Councils
Leadership
*President:
Giovanni Toti
Giovanni Toti (born 7 September 1968) is an Italian journalist and politician, who has been President of Liguria from 2015 to 2024. Toti was also elected to the European Parliament, following the 2014 European Parliament election.
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