Popular Italy ( it, Italia Popolare, IP), whose complete name is Popular Italy – Movement for Europe (''Italia Popolare – Movimento per l'Europa'', IP–MpE), is a
Christian-democratic faction within the
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. Its leading members were
Lino Duilio,
Gerardo Bianco and
Alberto Monticone, all three MPs elected for
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy. They were the most sceptical group of that party about the merger with
Democrats of the Left to form the Democratic Party, and they were cold supporters of it. Although being members of the
Italian People's Party when this party decided to join
The Olive Tree (Bianco was then party secretary), they were very proud of their Christian-democratic identity and never left the
European People's Party
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.
Prior to the
2008 general election, the group joined the
White Rose of
Bruno Tabacci
Bruno Tabacci (born 27 August 1946) is an Italian politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies. He is the president of the Democratic Centre. In the past, he was member of Christian Democracy and served as the president of Lombardy from 1 ...
. Gerardo Bianco and Alberto Monticone were appointed Vice Presidents of the new party by President
Savino Pezzotta and Secretary
Mario Baccini. Only Lino Duilio remained member of the Democratic Party. Soon after Popular Italy left even the White Rose over disagreements on the composition of the electoral lists of the
Union of the Centre (the alliance between the
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
The Union of the Centre ( it, Unione di Centro, UdC), whose complete name is "Union of Christian and Centre Democrats" (''Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e Democratici di Centro'', UDC), is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy. Lore ...
and the White Rose) and decided to again support the Democratic Party.
In 2017 Popular Italy joined the
Popular Civic List
The Popular Civic List ( it, Civica Popolare, CP) was a centrist coalition of political parties in Italy. Its leader is Beatrice Lorenzin, minister of Health from 2013 to 2018 and member of Popular Alternative.
History
CP participated in the 2 ...
(CP), a centrist electoral list within the
centre-left coalition
The centre-left coalition ( it, coalizione di centro-sinistra) is an political alliance, alliance of list of political parties in Italy, political parties in Italy active, under several forms and names, since 1995 when The Olive Tree (Italy), Th ...
for the
2018 general election, along with
Popular Alternative (AP),
Italy of Values (IdV), the
Centrists for Europe (CpE),
Solidary Democracy (DemoS), the
Union for Trentino (UpT),
Italy is Popular (IP) and minor parties/groups.
CP obtained a mere 0.5% and no seats, except those of a few candidates who won in single-seat constituencies.
References
External links
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