Federation of Christian Populars

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Federation of Christian Populars
Federazione dei Cristiano Popolari
President Mario Baccini
Founded20 June 2008
Dissolved15 November 2013
Split from The Rose for Italy
Merged into New Centre-Right
Ideology Christian Democracy
Pro-Europeanism
Political position Centre
National affiliation The People of Freedom (2009-2013)
Website
www.fdcp.it

The Federation of Christian Populars (Italian : Federazione dei Cristiano Popolari, FDCP) was a short-lived Christian-democratic political party in Italy which has been a faction within The People of Freedom (PdL), a broad centre-right party led by Silvio Berlusconi, and later became part of the New Centre-Right (NCD).

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The party was founded by Mario Baccini, after that he left the Rose for Italy and took part to the foundation of the PdL. [1] The party was joined by Antonio Satta and his Sardinian Autonomist Populars, a splinter group from UDEUR. [2] In October 2008 the FCP officially decided to merge into the PdL. [3] In October 2012 the balance of accounts of the PdL showed that the Christian Populars had received €40,000 of financial support from the mother-party. [4]

In August 2009 Satta launched the Christian Popular Union, which joined the Union of the Centre (UdC) instead. [5] [6]

In November 2013 the Christian Populars left the PdL and joined the newly formed New Centre-Right. [7] [8] [9]

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  2. ↑ "I Cristiano Popolari alla Camera Presentata la nuova Federazione". L'Unione Sarda (in Italian). 2008-06-25. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
  3. ↑ "Cristiano popolari,Baccini: Porteremo nel Pdl i valori cristiani" (in Italian). il Velino. 2008-10-18. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
  4. ↑ Cuzzocrea, Annalisa (31 October 2012), "Spuntano i fondi ai transfughi così il partito ha finanziato Scilipoti", La Repubblica
  5. ↑ "Satta fonda l'Unione popolare cristiana "Rilanciare il centro"-Regione Autonoma della Sardegna". Regione.sardegna.it. 2009-08-14. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  6. ↑ "Unionepopolarecristiana.org". Archived from the original on 2012-08-04. Retrieved 2009-12-23.
  7. ↑ ""Addio Pdl, io guardo all'Europa". Baccini, una spinta al Nuovo Centrodestra". Affaritaliani.it. Archived from the original on 2013-12-27. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  8. ↑ "Federazione dei Cristiano Popolari aderisce a Nuovo Centrodestra". Irpinianews.It. 2014-05-16. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  9. ↑ irpinia24 (2013-02-21). "Federazione Cristiano Popolari, l'on.Baccini ad Avellino per il nuovo Centrodestra | Irpinia24" (in Italian). Irpinia24.it. Retrieved 2014-07-18.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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