With Monti for Italy () was an

electoral coalition An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political party, political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand ...

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, formed for the 2013 general election to support the outgoing Prime Minister

Mario Monti Mario Monti (; born 19 March 1943) is an Italian politician, economist and academic who served as the Prime Minister of Italy from 2011 to 2013, leading a Technocratic government (Italy), technocratic government in the wake of the European sov ...

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

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. It comprised the following parties: While the Union of the Centre and Future and Freedom were established parties, Civic Choice was formed in the run-up of the election by Monti. Its core consisted of

Toward the Third Republic Toward the Third Republic (''Verso la Terza Repubblica'') was a political manifesto for a new centrism, centrist list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy launched during a convention in Rome on 17 November 2012. It aimed at form ...

, a centrist outfit formed in November 2012 by the merger of

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's Future Italy with other centrist associations as Toward North, established parties such as Lorenzo Dellai's Union for Trentino, and some leading figures from progressive Catholic ecclesial movements and trade associations, notably including minister Andrea Riccardi of the

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, Andrea Olivero of the Christian Associations of Italian Workers and Luigi Marino of Confcooperative. Beyond Riccardi, also ministers Renato Balduzzi and Enzo Moavero Milanesi joined Civic Choice. Moreover, a number of individual representatives of the centre-left Democratic Party and centre-right

The People of Freedom The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later t ...

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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and as a single list for the

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. Monti has chosen business executive Enrico Bondi to assist him with examining the coalition's candidates.

Electoral results

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.svg, Logo of the coalition's joint Senate list "With Monti for Italy"

References

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