Christian Popular Union Unione Popolare Cristiana | |
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Leader | Antonio Satta |
Secretary | Antonio Gaia [1] |
Founded | 2009 |
Split from | Union of Democrats for Europe |
Ideology | Christian democracy |
Political position | Centre |
National affiliation | Centre-left coalition |
Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 400 |
Senate | 0 / 200 |
European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
Regional Council of Sardinia | 0 / 60 |
The Christian Popular Union (Italian : Unione Popolare Cristiana, UPC) is a Christian-democratic [2] political party in Italy.
The UPC was launched in August 2009 by Antonio Satta, a former Christian Democrat who had been the regional leader of the Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR) and, later, of the Sardinian Autonomist Populars. [3] [4] The party was based and had its best electoral results in Sardinia, but had a structure countrywide, consisting primarily of former members of the UDEUR, notably including Gianfranco Saraca, Luca Bagliani, Danilo Bertoli, Sergio Deorsola, and Antonio Potenza (leader of Basilicata's United Populars). [5] [6]
In the 2010 Sardinian provincial elections the party did especially well in northern Sardinia: 10.7% in Sassari [7] and 6.2% in Olbia-Tempio. [8] Massimo Mulas, a regional councillor elected with the Union of Sardinians in the 2009 regional election, joined the party during the legislature.[ citation needed ] In June 2012, through Mulas, the UPC joined the newly formed parliamentary group Sardinia Tomorrow, along with other centrist councillors. [9] [10]
In the 2014 regional election the party won 1.7% of the vote [11] and one regional councillor, Gaetano Ledda. [12]
In 2015 the Council of State reassessed the composition of the Regional Council and two more UPC members, Antonio Gaia and Piefranco Zanchetta, gained seats. [13] [14] A month before, however, Ledda had left the party and joined The Base Sardinia. [15] [16]
In the run-up of the 2018 general election the UPC joined the Popular Civic List (CP), a centrist electoral list within the centre-left coalition, comprising mainly Popular Alternative (AP), Italy of Values (IdV), the Centrists for Europe (CpE), Solidary Democracy (DemoS), the Union for Trentino (UpT) and Italy Is Popular (IP). [17] CP obtained a mere 0.5% and no seats.
In the 2019 regional election the party won 1.5% of the vote and no seats in a joint list with the Italian Socialist Party.
In the 2024 regional election the party was a junior partner of a joint list formed primarily by Action and More Europe.