Democratic Republicans (''Repubblicani Democratici'', RD) is a tiny
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political party in Italy
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, led by
Giuseppe Ossorio.
The party was founded in 2004 by splinters from the
Italian Republican Party
The Italian Republican Party ( it, Partito Repubblicano Italiano, PRI) is a liberal and social-liberal political party in Italy. Founded in 1895, the PRI is the oldest political party still active in Italy.
The PRI has old roots and a long hist ...
(PRI), who wanted to get rid of the alliance with the centre-right
House of Freedoms coalition.
History
At the
2005 regional elections the party presented its list only in
Campania
(man), it, Campana (woman)
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, where it gained 1.4% and Ossorio was re-elected to the Regional Council.
In 2005 the party sided with
The Union and contested the
2006 general election within the lists of
Antonio Di Pietro
Antonio Di Pietro (; born 2 October 1950) is an Italian politician, lawyer and magistrate. He was a minister in government of Romano Prodi, a Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senator, and a Member of the European Parliament. He was a prosecutor i ...
's
Italy of Values
Italy of Values ( it, Italia dei Valori, IdV) is a populist and anti-corruption political party in Italy. The party was founded in 1998 by former '' Mani pulite'' prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro, who entered politics in 1996 and finally left the p ...
(IdV). Consequently, to this pact of federation, Ossorio was elected to the
Chamber of Deputies in his home region Campania and sit in the IdV caucus.
On 20 September 2007, Ossorio announced that the Democratic Republicans were joining the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD) alongside fellow ex-PRI members of the
European Republicans Movement (MRE).
In 2010 the party returned into the PRI's fold.
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