With Monti for Italy ( it, Con Monti per l'Italia) was an electoral coalition of

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, formed for the

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to support the outgoing Prime Minister

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and his reform plans. Its platform was based on Monti's manifesto titled "Change Italy. Reform Europe."

Formation and composition

The coalition was launched in December 2012 during the last month of the Monti Cabinet. It comprised the following parties: While the UdC and FLI were established parties, SC was formed in the run-up of the election by Monti. Its core consisted of

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(VTR), a centrist outfit formed in November 2012 by the merger of Luca Cordero di Montezemolo's

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(IF) with other centrist associations as

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(VN), established parties such as Lorenzo Dellai's Union for Trentino (UpT), and some leading figures from progressive Catholic ecclesial movements and trade associations, notably including minister Andrea Riccardi of the Community of Sant'Egidio,

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of the Christian Associations of Italian Workers (ACLI) and

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of Confcooperative. Beyond Riccardi, also ministers

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and Enzo Moavero Milanesi joined SC. Moreover, a number of individual representatives of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) and centre-right The People of Freedom (PdL) announced their defections to Monti's party. The partyless economist Monti presented the grouping as a civil movement and rejected the traditional notions of political left, right, or centre. Because of the particularities of Italy's electoral law, the coalition ran as an alliance of three constituent lists for the

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(SC, UdC and FLI) and as a single list for the

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. Monti has chosen business executive

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to assist him with examining the coalition's candidates.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Symbols

Scelta civica - Con Monti per l'Italia.png, Logo of "Civic Choice" list for the Chamber of Deputies (one of three constituent lists) Con Monti per l'Italia.png, Logo of the coalition's joint Senate list "With Monti for Italy"

References

{{Historical Italian political parties Defunct political party alliances in Italy