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The Italian People's Party (Partito Popolare Italiano, PPI) was a christian-democratic political party in Italy

History

The party emerged as successor to the Christian Democracy (DC) in January 1994. The first secretary of the party was Mino Martinazzoli, replaced by Rocco Buttiglione in June 1994, after that the party was soundly defeated in the April general election by both the centre-right and the centre-left, gaining only the 11.1%, as part of a centrist alliance named Pact for Italy.

In 1995, when Buttiglione's proposal to join the centre-right coalition (composed of Forza Italia, the National Alliance and the Christian Democratic Centre) was rejected by the party's National Council, the outgoing secretary, along with Roberto Formigoni and Gianfranco Rotondi, formed the United Christian Democrats, leaving the PPI in the hands of the leftish factions of the late DC.

For the 1996 general election the party formed a list (the PPI-UD-PRI-SVP for Prodi) with Antonio Maccanico's Democratic Union, the Italian Republican Party and the South Tyrolean People's Party. The list was part of The Olive Tree coalition and won 6.8% of the vote in the election. PPI was represented in Romano Prodi's government by three ministers: Beniamino Andreatta was Minister of Defense, Rosy Bindi Minister of Health and Michele Pinto Minister of Agriculture.

In the 1999 European Parliament election, the party was damaged by the competition of the The Democrats (Dem), a centrist and social-liberal party launched by Romano Prodi. PPI won only 4.3% of the vote, while The Democrats took the 7.7%.

For the 2001 general election PPI formed an electoral alliance with The Democrats, the Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR) and Lamberto Dini's Italian Renewal (RI). The alliance won 4.5% of vote. In January 2002, the party decided finally to merge in the new centrist party, called Democracy is Freedom – Daisy, along with The Democrats and Italian Renewal.

Leadership

• Secretary: Mino Martinazzoli (1994), Rocco Buttiglione (1994–1995), Gerardo Bianco (1995–1997), Franco Marini (1997–1999), Pierluigi Castagnetti (1999–2002)
  • Deputy Secretary: Enrico Letta (1999–2002)
• President: Rosa Russo Jervolino (1994), Giovanni Bianchi (1994–1997), Gerardo Bianco (1997–1999)
• Coordinator: Dario Franceschini (1997–1999), Lapo Pistelli (1999–2002)

 

Historical Italian political parties (active parties: simple version, in 2007)

Communist: Communist Party of Italy, Italian Communist Party, Organisation of Communists of Italy (Marxist-Leninists), Proletarian Unity Party, Proletarian Democracy, Movement of Unitarian Communists Socialist: Italian Reform Socialist Party, United Socialist Party (1922), Labour Democratic Party, Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity Social democratic: Italian Socialist Party, Italian Socialist Workers' Party, United Socialist Party (1949), Italian Democratic Socialist Party, Unified Socialist Party, Democratic Party of the Left, Italian Socialists, Democrats of the Left Green: Green Lists, Rainbow Greens Social liberal: Action Party, Radical Party, Democratic Alliance, Democratic Union, Movement for Democracy – The Net, The Democrats, European Republicans Movement, Liberal: Italian Liberal Party, Union of the Centre, Liberal Party Centrist: Patto Segni, Italian Renewal, United Consumers, Southern Democratic Party, Middle-of-the-Road Italy, Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy Regionalist: Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol, Fronte Marco Polo, Sardinia Project, Sicilian Alliance, Daisy Civic List Christian democratic: Italian People's Party (1919), Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party (1994), Christian Democratic Centre, United Christian Democrats, Christian Democrats for the Republic, Democratic Union for the Republic, European Democracy Conservative: Uomo Qualunque Front, Monarchist National Party, People's Monarchist Party, Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity, National Democracy Fascist and neo-fascist: National Fascist Party, Italian Social Movement–National Right Leftist coalition: Popular Democratic Front, Alliance of Progressives, Centre-left coalition:The Olive Tree, The Union, Rose in the Fist Liberal coalition: National Democratic Union, National Bloc, Republicans, Liberals, Reformers Centrist coalition: Pact for Italy, Pact of Democrats Centre-right coalition: Pole of Freedoms, Pole of Good Government, House of Freedoms Conservative coalition: National Bloc of Freedom Neo-fascist coalition: Social Alternative Liste civetta: For the Abolition of Scorporo, New Country

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