Reformism and Freedom (''Riformismo e Libertà'', ReL) is a "reformist" and mainly social-democratic think tank in

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. ReL, whose president is

Fabrizio Cicchitto Fabrizio Cicchitto (born 26 October 1940) is an Italian politician, whose career has followed a trajectory from radical socialism to centre-right reformism. Biography Fabrizio Cicchitto entered politics in the early 1960s, supporting the Ricc ...

,
has been associated with

The People of Freedom The People of Freedom ( it, Il Popolo della Libertà, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL, launched by Silvio Berlusconi on 18 November 2007, was initially a federation of political parties, notably including Forza Italia a ...

(PdL), a

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, until 2013 and is now close to

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(NCD). ReL aims at strengthening the alliance between Catholics and secular forces, for which Forza Italia was born in 1994. It was launched in November 2009 by Chicchitto, a former member of the

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, along with other former Socialists, including Francesco Forte (who serves as president of ReL's scientific committee), Ugo Finetti,

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, Giuliano Cazzola,

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(leader of We Reformers), Pier Luigi Borghini, Giancarlo Lehner, Sergio Pizzolante (active also in

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), Chiara Moroni, Alfredo Pallone, Fiamma Nirenstein, Carlo Ripa di Meana. In order to fulfill its goal of uniting the different political traditions represented in the Italian centre-right, the think tank includes also some liberals, such as

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and

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, some liberal Christian democrats, including

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and Gianstefano Frigerio, and some leading liberal-conservatives from National Alliance, such as Gennaro Malgieri and

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. In October 2012 Cicchitto launched the "For a Lib-Lab manifesto" initiative along with other like-minded members of the PdL, including

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(

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), Stefano Caldoro and Lucio Barani (

New Italian Socialist Party The New Italian Socialist Party or New PSI ( it, Nuovo Partito Socialista Italiano or ''Nuovo PSI'', NPSI), more recently styled as Liberal Socialists – NPSI, is a political party in Italy which professes a social-democratic ideology and claims t ...

), and Giuseppe Calderisi (a former leading member of Liberal Reformers). In November 2013 Cicchitto, Pizzolante, Cazzola, Colucci, Pallone and other leading ReL members left the PdL to join NCD.

References

External links

Official website
{{People of Freedom factions Organisations associated with The People of Freedom