The Democratic Italian Movement ( it, Movimento Italiano Democratico, MID) was a

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. The MID was founded in February 1995 by

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, a former diplomat who he had been minister for Italians abroad in

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. A few months later the party formed a federation with the

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and in the run-up of the 1996 general election it was finally merged with

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(RI), led by another former minister under Berlusconi,

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. In the election two MID members, Aldo Brancati and Giovanni Bruni were elected to the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, respectively, but both of them soon left RI (Brancati finally joined the

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, while Bruni Forza Italia).

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