The Union of the Centre,whose complete name is "Union of Christian and Centre Democrats",is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
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 11th 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,led by Gianfranco Rotondi. Later incarnations of the party,also led by Rotondi,include Christian Revolution,Green is Popular and Christian Democracy with Rotondi.
Gianfranco Rotondi is an Italian politician. A member of the Italian Parliament since 1994,he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1996,from 2001 to 2006,and since 2008,as well as a member of the Senate of the Republic from 2006 to 2008. He was also a Minister without Portfolio for the Implementation of the Government Program in the fourth Berlusconi government from 2008 to 2011.
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.
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.
On 24 January 2008,the Italian Senate voted down a motion of confidence in Italian prime minister Romano Prodi,causing 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.
Democratic Centre is a centrist,Christian leftist and social-liberal political party in Italy. Most of its members,including its leader Bruno Tabacci,are former Christian Democrats. Since its beginnings,the CD has been also part of the centre-left coalition,centred around the Democratic Party (PD).
The centre-right coalition is a political alliance of political parties in Italy active under several forms and names since 1994,when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed the Forza Italia party. It has mostly competed with the centre-left coalition. It is composed of right-leaning parties in the Italian political arena,which generally advocate tax reduction and oppose immigration,and in some cases are eurosceptic.
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 2021;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.
More Europe is a liberal and pro-European political party in Italy,part of the centre-left coalition and member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
Civic Commitment was an Italian centrist electoral list running in the 2022 general election,composed of Luigi Di Maio's Together for the Future (IpF) and Bruno Tabacci's Democratic Centre (CD).
