Energies for Italy Energie per l'Italia | |
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Leader | Stefano Parisi |
Founded | 18 November 2016 |
Dissolved | 17 December 2020 |
Headquarters | Viale Scarampo 49 20148 Milan |
Ideology | Liberalism |
Political position | Centre [1] |
National affiliation | Centre-right coalition |
Colours | Gold |
Website | |
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Energies for Italy (Italian : Energie per l'Italia, EpI) was a political party in Italy, launched in November 2016 [2] [3] [4] and officially established on 1 April 2017. [5] Its leader is Stefano Parisi, a former director-general of Confindustria and CEO of Fastweb, who was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor in the 2016 Milan municipal election.
In the run-up of the 2016 Milan municipal election, Stefano Parisi was selected by Silvio Berlusconi as the candidate for mayor for Forza Italia (FI). In the election, Parisi pulled the party to 20.2%, but however narrowly lost to his Democratic opponent, Giuseppe Sala, in the run-off. After asking Parisi to reform the party, in November Berlusconi disowned him, due to his difficult political relationship with the party's major ally, Lega Nord (LN). [6] [7] Parisi thus launched his own party, EpI, and soon came to terms again with LN, aiming at being part of the same centre-right coalition.
In March 2017 Maurizio Sacconi, senator and former minister, who had been a member of the Italian Socialist Party (like Parisi), the old Forza Italia (FI) and the New Centre-Right (NCD), joined EpI, after stepping down from NCD Senate leader in February 2015 and later refusing to join the NCD-sponsored Popular Alternative (AP). [8] [9] [10]
Later on, the party was joined by another senator (Gabriele Albertini) and five deputies (Domenico Menorello, Giovanni Monchiero, Dino Secco, Gugliemo Vaccaro and Gianluigi Gigli), [11] [12] mostly splinters of FI, NCD/AP and Civic Choice (SC). In September 2017 EpI joined forces with "The Marianne", a liberal political association led by Giovanni Negri (a former secretary of the Radical Party). [13] [14] [15] In November 2017, the Civics and Innovators sub-group in the Chamber, led by Monchiero, was renamed "Civics and Innovators – Energies for Italy". [16]
On 13 January 2018, EpI and CI launched a joint list named "Energies for Italy – for the Centre-right", allied with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia. [17]
On 17 December 2020 Parisi declared his farewell to politics to return to being an entrepreneur, recalling the unsuccessful attempt to give the center-right a liberal-popular impulse. [18]
Region | Last election | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | # of overall seats won | +/− |
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Sicily | 2017 | with Diventerà Bellissima | 0 / 70 | – | |
Lombardy | 2018 | 27,967 (#15) | 0.53 | 1 / 80 | 1 |
Lazio | 2018 | 37,043 (#13) | 1.46 | 1 / 50 | 1 |
Abruzzo | 2019 | 19,446 (#8) | 3.24 | 1 / 31 | 1 |
Sardinia | 2019 | 3,471 (#23) | 0.49 | 0 / 60 | - |
Piedmont | 2019 | with NMS | 0 / 51 | – |
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