The Pensioners' Party (''Partito Pensionati'', PP) is a

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Italian political party, whose aim is to represent the interests of pensioners.

History

The Pensioners' Party was founded in 1987 in

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, and its current leader is

Carlo Fatuzzo Carlo Fatuzzo (born 14 March 1944 in Genoa) is an Italian politician, leader of the Pensioners' Party. His daughter Elisabetta, a lawyer, is also an exponent of the Pensioners' Party. Biography In 1979 Fatuzzo founded the ''Christian Party of ...

. In the 2004 European Parliament election, it gained 1.1% of the national vote and elected its leader to the

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, where he sits in the

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group. On 4 February 2006, the party joined The Union, the centre-left coalition led by

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, and was decisive in the result of the 2006 general election (the PP scored 0.9% and the centre-left won by a 0.1% margin), but soon after the election the alliance with the centre-left turned cold and tense. In the

, Antonio Tajani (

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, Vice President of the

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), tried successfully to convince Fatuzzo to return to the centre-right coalition. Finally, on 20 November 2006, Carlo Fatuzzo, in a press conference along with Antonio Tajani and

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(national deputy-coordinator of Forza Italia), announced that its party was re-joining the centre-right

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coalition. In the 2008 general election the Pensioners' Party presented its candidates into

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, but it didn't gained any seat. In the 2009 European Parliament election, the party ran as part of

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, an electoral coalition including The Right, the

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and the Alliance of the Centre. In 2012 the party enters for the first time in the Italian Parliament with one deputy, Lino Miserotti, who replaces the outgoing deputy Marco Airaghi, and with one senator, Giacinto Boldrini, who replaces the deceased senator Gianpiero Carlo Cantoni. In the 2013 general election the Pensioners' Party ran with the

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, getting only the 0.16% of the vote for the Chamber and the 0.40% for the Senate. In the 2018 general election the party signed a cooperation Agreement with

and some members of the party were candidate in FI's lists, including party's secretary

, who was elected in the

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Electoral results

Italian Parliament

European Parliament

Regional Councils

References

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