Italia in Comune

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Italia in Comune
President Federico Pizzarotti
Coordinator Alessio Pascucci
Founded16 April 2018
Split from Five Star Movement
HeadquartersPiazzale San Lorenzo 1, Parma
Ideology Green politics
Progressivism
Political position Centre-left
National affiliation More Europe (2019)
Action (2024)
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European Parliament
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Website
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Italia in Comune (IiC, English: Italy in Common) is a green and progressive political party in Italy. [1] [2] It was founded in April 2018 by mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti, other former members of the Five Star Movement and local non-party independent politicians generally affiliated with the centre-left coalition.

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History

In October 2016, mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti left the Five Star Movement (M5S) [3] due to disagreements with the movement's founder, Beppe Grillo and his suspension from the party in the previous May. [4] In the 2012 local elections, Pizzarotti had been the first M5S member to win in a big city, with 60.2% of the vote in the run-off (up from 19.5% in the first round). [5]

In the 2017 local elections, Pizzarotti was re-elected mayor without the M5S' support, with 58.9% in the run-off. [6]

In April 2018, Pizzarotti launched Italia in Comune, [7] [1] [8] which aimed at becoming the collector of local "civic lists", as well as disgruntled former M5S members. The party was co-founded by Alessio Pascucci, a left-wing independent who had been elected mayor of Cerveteri, Lazio in 2012 and 2017, supported by civic lists and the Federation of the Greens (FdV). [9] [10]

In October 2018, Serse Soverini, a member of the Chamber of Deputies elected in the 2018 general election as a representative of Civic Area, a minor progressive party close to Romano Prodi, joined IiC [11] and soon became the party's regional coordinator in Emilia-Romagna, the region of Parma and, consequently, IiC's powerbase. [12] Almost a year later, in September 2019, after Matteo Renzi had left to form Italia Viva, Soverini would leave IiC too and join the Democratic Party. [13] [14]

In the early months of 2019 the party became involved in the centre-left coalition, and obtained promising results in regional elections in Abruzzo (3.9% of the vote and one regional councillor) and Sardinia (2.5%). In February Free Alternative, another party formed by M5S splinters, announced that it was merging into IiC. [15]

In the run-up to the 2019 European Parliament election, IiC formed an alliance with the FdV, Green Italia and minor green groups, which would result in a green joint electoral list. [16] [17] However, soon after the party switched allegiances, deserted the FdV and joined forces with More Europe (+E), a liberal party, [18] [19] [20] which was later enlarged to the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). [21]

In the run-up of the 2022 general election IiC lacked activity, [22] and its leading members parted ways. President Pizzarotti formed a National Civic List and successively joined forces with Piercamillo Falasca's L'Italia c'è, [23] Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva [24] [25] and Carlo Calenda's Action, [26] while Alessio Pascucci organised the National Civic Agenda/Network [27] and joined Luigi Di Maio's Civic Commitment. [28] [29] [30] In August 2022, shortly before the election, both groups broke with their would-be allies. [31] [32]

In late 2022 Pizzarotti and Falasca re-joined +E, while continuing to be part of L'Italia c'è. [33] In February 2023 Pizzarotti was elected president of +E. [34] He resigned in 2024 and joined Action. [35]

Electoral results

European Parliament

European Parliament
Election yearVotes%Seats+/−Leader
2019 833,443 (6th) [lower-alpha 1] 3.11
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  1. ↑ In a joint list with More Europe and Italian Socialist Party.

Regional Councils

RegionElection yearVotes%Seats+/–
Piedmont 2019 11,183 (14th)0.58
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Emilia-Romagna 2020 Into BP –
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Abruzzo 2019 23,168 (7th)3.86
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Apulia 2020 64,886 (10th)3.87
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Sardinia 2019 17,480 (15th)2.47
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