The Daisy Civic List ( it, Civica Margherita) was a regionalist,

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Italian political party active in

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History

It was founded in 1998 by

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and other local politicians active in several

parties, both from the

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and the

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at the national level, as the Italian People's Party,

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, the

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and splinters from the

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. In the 1998 provincial election the ''Civica'' won 22.0% of the vote and Dellai was appointed President of the Province of Trento, at the head of a centre-left coalition, along with two major allies: the

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(DS) and the

Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party The Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party ( it, Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese, PATT) is a regionalist, autonomist, Christian-democratic and centrist political party in Trentino, Italy. The PATT is the unofficial counterpart of the South T ...

(PATT). Taking example from Trentino and bordering

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, where

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formed a similar list named Together for Veneto for the 2000 regional election, four centre-left parties united to form

Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy ( it, Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita, DL), commonly known simply as The Daisy (''La Margherita''), was a centrist political party in Italy. The party was formed from the merger of three parties within ...

(DL) in 2001. Since that moment, the Daisy Civic List became the provincial section of the national party with the similar name, although maintaining some of its autonomy and peculiarities. In particular it was more conservative and than national DL, because of its explicit characterization as a Christian-democratic party. In the 2003 provincial election the party won 25.9% of the vote and its leader Lorenzo Dellai was re-elected by a landslide: 60.8% compared to 30.7% of his major opponent,

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. In 2007, when DL merged with the DS, although most of the members of the Daisy Civic List joined the new

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(PD), they rejected the merge at the regional level, where ''Civica'' and the DS continued to act as distinct parties. In 2008 Trentino centrists decided to retain a double party affiliation: to the PD at the national level, to the Daisy at the regional one, and Giorgio Lunelli, the party coordinator, declared that the Daisy would not join the Democratic Party "neither today, nor after the rovincialelection, never". After the defeat of the centre-left in Trentino in the 2008 general election, Daisy was divided among those who wanted to continue on the road toward the consolidation of the regional party and those who wanted to establish the provincial PD along with the local Democrats of the Left. On 30 April the party decided both the merger into PD and the creation of a new regional party federated with it, as supported by both Dellai and Lunelli. Daisy thus suffered the separation of the "Democrats" from the "regionalists". Dellai, Lunelli, supported by former Senator

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and eight provincial deputies out of twelve, decided to take part to the foundation of the regionalist party, while Senator

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and Deputy

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decided to join the PD. The new regionalist party, named

Union for Trentino The Union for Trentino ( it, Unione per il Trentino, UpT) is a regionalist, centrist and Christian-democratic political party active in Trentino, Italy. The party has its roots in the experience of Daisy Civic List and was founded on 7 June 2008 ...

(UpT), was launched on 7 June, while the provincial PD was established on 8 June. With the foundation of UpT the Daisy ceased to exist.

Popular support

The electoral results of the ''Civica'' in the Province of Bolzano since 1998 are shown in the table below.

References

Sources

Provincial Council of Trento – LegislaturesTrentino Alto-Adige Region – ElectionsProvincial Government of Trento – ElectionsCattaneo Institute – Archive of Election DataMinistry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections

External links

Official website
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