Italy in the Centre ( it, Italia al Centro, IaC) is a

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led by

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History

In August 2019,

left his former party Forza Italia (FI), and formed

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(C!). In May 2021, C! was a founding member of a new joint party named

Coraggio Italia Coraggio Italia (, also translatable as 'Cheer up Italy', CI) is a liberal-conservative political party in Italy, led by Luigi Brugnaro. History In February 2021, amid the formation of Mario Draghi's national unity government, Cambiamo! (C ...

(CI), whose main leaders were Toti and

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. In less than a year, CI, which had failed to attract substantial support among voters according to

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, experienced an internal crisis. On one side Toti wanted to form an alliance with

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party, and he launched Italy in the Centre (IaC); on the other side, Brugnaro rejected establishment politics, and he wanted to remain part of the

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. In February 2022, CI's sub-group within the

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, previously named "IDeA–Cambiamo!–Europeanists", was re-named "Italy in the Centre". On 28 April 2022 IdC was officially established. During a meeting of the national leadership in May 2022, a provisional statute of IaC was approved and regional coordinators and a secretariat were appointed, entirely supplanting Cambiamo!. Also in May, senators Francesco Mollame and Ugo Grassi joined IaC. In the 2022 Italian local elections, CI and IaC ran separately in most places. CI obtained relevant results only in

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, Brugnaro's home-region, most notably 5.2% in

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and 4.4% in

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, while IaC won 9.2% in

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, 8.5% in La Spezia, 3.7% in Rieti, 5.2% in L'Aquila, and 4.3% in

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. In late June 2022, CI and IaC formally split both in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In July 2022, there was a party's convention in Rome, featuring as guests, among others,

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of Forza Italia, Carlo Calenda of

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and Ettore Rosato of Italia Viva. In the run-up of the

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IaC first formed a joint list with

Us with Italy Us with Italy ( it, Noi con l'Italia, NcI) is a liberal-conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Italy. NcI started as a federation of minor centre-right parties and, as such, was part of the centre-right coalition in the 2018 gen ...

(NcI), then it was a founding member of

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(NM), a broader joint list within the centre-right coalition, along with NcI, CI and the Union of the Centre (UdC).

Composition

Member parties

Former members

Leadership

*President:

(2022–present)

External links

Official website

References

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