Marche 2020 – Party of Marche ( it, Marche 2020 – Partito delle Marche, M20 or M2020) is a

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and

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. The party was formed, out of an association, in December 2014 by Gian Mario Spacca (President of Marche since 2005),

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(President of the Regional Council of Marche since 2010) and other defectors from the

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(PD), mainly former

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(both Spacca and Solazzi had been members of Christian Democracy, the Italian People's Party and

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). The decision to leave the PD was taken when it was clear that the party would not have let Spacca run for a third-consecutive term as President in the 2015 regional election. M20 flirted with the idea of taking part to the centre-left primary, but finally decided to part ways with the PD. Spacca was thus chosen as the party's candidate for President and secured the support of

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and the

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, the two main

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parties. M20 was soon endorsed also by the

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, which has in Marche one of its strongholds under the leadership of

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, and by the representatives of various civic lists. Eventually, the joint list of M20 and

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(comprising only the New Centre-Right, without the Union of the Centre) won 4.0% of vote in the regional election.

References

External links

Official website
{{Italian political parties Centrist parties in Italy Political parties in Marche Democratic Party (Italy) breakaway groups