Constitution, Environment, Labour (, CAL), whose full name was United for the Constitution – C.A.L. (Constitution, Environment, Labour) –

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– PC – Italy Again – Project SMART – IdV (), was a heterogeneous

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, and mainly

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parliamentary group active in the Senate of the Republic. All of its members were elected for the

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(M5S) in the

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History

The groups's forebear was C.A.L. (Constitution, Environment, Labour)–IdV, which was briefly active in January 2022. In April 2022, the group was eventually relaunched with the participation of senators from

, the Communist Party, and

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, plus some non-party independents. Mattia Crucioli was elected as the group's president. Since its establishment, CAL opposed

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and any intervention in the

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. In the 2022 local elections, Crucioli ran for mayor in

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, where he was supported by other parties composing CAL, as well as other populist and Eurosceptic parties including Gianluigi Paragone's Italexit, and obtained 3.7% of the vote. The alliance was named United for the Constitution, which was later incorporated in the group's official name. In June 2022, group member Bianca Laura Granato joined Italy Again, a populist and Eurosceptic party founded by Diego Fusaro. In the run-up of the

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, Alternative briefly joined forces with Italexit (the alliance was dissolved by Alternative due to allegations about the presence of neofascist candidates within Italexit's lists), while the Communist Party and Italy Again launched Sovereign and Popular Italy.

Composition

Leadership

*President: Mattia Crucioli (2022–present) *Vice President: Bianca Laura Granato (2022–present)

References

{{Italian political parties Parliamentary groups in Italy