Forza Italia was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy,with Christian-democratic,liberal,social-democratic and populist tendencies. It was founded by Silvio Berlusconi,who served as Prime Minister of Italy four times.
The Union of the Centre,whose complete name is "Union of Christian and Centre Democrats",is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy. Lorenzo Cesa is the party's current secretary;Pier Ferdinando Casini was for years the most recognisable figure and de facto leader of the party,before eventually distancing from it in 2016. The UdC is a member of the European People's Party (EPP) and the Centrist Democrat International (CDI),of which Casini was president from 2004 to 2015.
The 2006 Italian general election was held on 9 and 10 April 2006. Romano Prodi,leader of the centre-left coalition The Union,narrowly defeated the incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi,leader of the centre-right coalition House of Freedoms. Initial exit polls suggested a victory for Prodi,but the results narrowed as the count progressed. On 11 April 2006,Prodi declared victory;Berlusconi never conceded defeat and an ensuing dispute formed.
Pier Ferdinando Casini is an Italian politician. He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2001 to 2006.
The Christian Democratic Centre was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy from 1994 to 2002. Formed from a right-wing split from Christian Democracy,the party joined the centre-right coalition,and was a member of the European People's Party (EPP).
Giorgio Napolitano was an Italian politician who served as the president of Italy from 2006 to 2015,the first to be re-elected to the office. In office for 8 years and 244 days,he was the longest-serving president,until the record was surpassed by Sergio Mattarella in 2023. He also was the longest-lived president in the history of the Italian Republic,which has been in existence since 1946. Although he was a prominent figure of the First Italian Republic,he did not take part in the Constituent Assembly of Italy that drafted the Italian constitution;he is considered one of the symbols of the Second Italian Republic,which came about after the Tangentopoli scandal of the 1990s. Due to his dominant position in Italian politics,some critics have sometimes referred to him as Re Giorgio.
Christian Democracy for Autonomies was a minor Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
Franco Marini was an Italian politician and a prominent member of the centre-left Democratic Party. From 2006 to 2008,he was the president of the Senate.
The 2006 Italian presidential election was held on 8–10 May 2006. The result was the election of Giorgio Napolitano,the first time a former member of the Italian Communist Party had been elected to the presidency of the Italian Republic.
Middle Italy was a centrist Italian political grouping founded in 2006 by Marco Follini,Senate member and former leader of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats,and Riccardo Conti,member of the Chamber of Deputies. Initially founded as a free political association in support of the "no" vote for the 2006 constitutional referendum,it became a party on 21 October 2006,after Follini announced his resignations from the UDC caucus.
Bruno Tabacci is an Italian politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies. He is the president of the Democratic Centre. In the past,he was a member of Christian Democracy and served as the president of Lombardy from 1987 to 1989.
The second Prodi government was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 17 May 2006 to 8 May 2008,a total of 722 days,or 1 year,11 months and 21 days. The 59th cabinet of the Italian Republic,it was the only cabinet of the XV Legislature.
The third Berlusconi government was the cabinet of the government of Italy from 23 April 2005 to 17 May 2006. It was the 58th cabinet of the Italian Republic,and the second cabinet of the XIV Legislature.
On 24 January 2008,the Italian prime minister Romano Prodi lost a vote of confidence in the Senate of the Republic,which caused the collapse of the second Prodi government. Prodi's resignation led the Italian president Giorgio Napolitano to ask the president of the Senate,Franco Marini,to attempt to form a caretaker government. After Marini acknowledged an interim government could not be formed due to the lack of a clear majority in the Italian Parliament willing to support it,a snap election was scheduled for 13–14 April 2008.
The Rose for Italy,also known as White Rose and Popular Civic Federative Movement,was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
A snap election was held in Italy on 13–14 April 2008. The election came after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved the Italian Parliament on 6 February 2008,following the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a January 2008 Senate vote of confidence and the unsuccessful tentative appointment of Franco Marini with the aim to change the current electoral law. Under Italian law,elections must be held within 70 days of the dissolution. The voting determined the leader of Italy's 62nd government since the end of World War II. The coalition led by ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from The People of Freedom party defeated that of former Mayor of Rome,Walter Veltroni of the Democratic Party.
Mario Baccini is an Italian politician,former member of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats and promoter of the White Rose,incumbent mayor of Fiumicino since May 2023.
Alliance for Italy was a centrist political party in Italy.
The political career of Silvio Berlusconi (1994–2011) began in 1994,when Berlusconi entered politics for the first time serving intermittent terms as Prime Minister of Italy from 1994 to 1995,2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011,his career was racked with controversies and trials;amongst these was his failure to honour his promise to sell his personal assets in Mediaset,the largest television broadcaster network in Italy,in order to dispel any perceived conflicts of interest.
The centre-left coalition is a political alliance of political parties in Italy active under several forms and names since 1995,when The Olive Tree was formed under the leadership of Romano Prodi. The centre-left coalition has ruled the country for more than fifteen years between 1996 and 2022;to do so,it had mostly to rely on a big tent that went from the more radical left-wing,which had more weight between 1996 and 2008,to the political centre,which had more weight during the 2010s,and its main parties were also part of grand coalitions and national unity governments.
