Together (Italy)

Last updated

Together
Insieme
Leaders Giulio Santagata
Riccardo Nencini
Angelo Bonelli
Founded14 December 2017
Dissolved2 December 2018
Ideology Social democracy [1]
Green politics [1]
Pro-Europeanism
Political position Centre-left
National affiliation Centre-left coalition
Website
www.insieme2018.it

Together (Italian : Insieme), whose complete name was Italy Europe Together (Italia Europa Insieme, IEI), was a broadly progressive coalition of political parties in Italy that was part of the centre-left coalition for the 2018 general election.

Contents

History

During 2017 there were lengthy talks on the creation of an electoral list to the left of the Democratic Party (PD), within the PD-led centre-left coalition. In this process Giuliano Pisapia, a former mayor of Milan, launched the Progressive Camp (CP) and long pondered the possibility of leading the proposed list, including minor established parties, assorted leftists and, most notably, former members of Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) – which had been folded into the more radical Italian Left (SI).

In December, after Pisapia's retirement and the dissolution of the CP, Riccardo Nencini, Angelo Bonelli and Giulio Santagata, respectively leaders of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), the Federation of the Greens (FdV) and Civic Area (AC), launched Together in order to participate in the 2018 general election as a part of the centre-left coalition, along with More Europe (+E) and the Popular Civic List (CP). Together's logo was styled on that of The Olive Tree, a broad centre-left coalition active from 1995 to 2007 (when its main components were merged into the PD). [2] [3] [4]

Some of Pisapia's followers launched the Progressive Area (AP) and looked set to join Together, [5] [6] However, after tensions with Together leaders, [7] it was announced that AP had signed an agreement with +E, already composed of the Italian Radicals, Forza Europa and the Democratic Centre, also with the centre-left. [8] [9]

In the election the list obtained a mere 0.6% of the vote and no seats. However, two of its members elected in single-seat constituencies: Nencini (PSI) to the Senate in Arezzo and Serse Soverini (AC) to the Chamber in Imola.

On 2 December 2018, the Federation of the Greens left Together, ending de facto the alliance. [10]

Composition

PartyMain ideologyLeader/s
Italian Socialist Party Social democracy Riccardo Nencini
Federation of the Greens Green politics Angelo Bonelli
Civic Area Progressivism Giulio Santagata

Election results

ElectionLeader Chamber of Deputies Senate of the Republic
Votes %SeatsPositionVotes %SeatsPosition
2018 Giulio Santagata 190,6010.58
1 / 630
12th163,4540.54
1 / 315
12th

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Federation of the Greens</span> Political party in Italy

The Federation of the Greens, frequently referred to as Greens (Verdi), was a green political party in Italy. It was formed in 1990 by the merger of the Federation of Green Lists and the Rainbow Greens.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pier Ferdinando Casini</span> Italian politician (born 1955)

Pier Ferdinando Casini is an Italian politician. He served as President of the Chamber of Deputies from 2001 to 2006.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Italian Socialist Party (2007)</span> Political party in Italy

The Italian Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy. The party was founded in 2007–2008 by the merger of the following social-democratic parties and groups: Enrico Boselli's Italian Democratic Socialists, the faction of the New Italian Socialist Party led by Gianni De Michelis, The Italian Socialists of Bobo Craxi, Democracy and Socialism of Gavino Angius, the Association for the Rose in the Fist of Lanfranco Turci, Socialism is Freedom of Rino Formica and some other minor organisations. Until October 2009, the party was known as Socialist Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Left Ecology Freedom</span> Political party in Italy

Left Ecology Freedom was a democratic socialist political party in Italy whose bulk was formed by former members of the Communist Refoundation Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Giuliano Pisapia</span> Italian politician (born 1949)

Giuliano Pisapia is an Italian lawyer, politician, former mayor of Milan, former member of the Italian Parliament and former member of the European Parliament. As a politician, he has been a member of two left-wing parties, first Proletarian Democracy and then the Communist Refoundation Party; in Milan's mayoral election, he was endorsed by a large left-wing coalition, after winning the primary election of the centre-left coalition with the strong support of Nichi Vendola's Left Ecology Freedom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2018 Italian general election</span>

The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017. Voters were electing the 630 members of the Chamber of Deputies and the 315 elective members of the Senate of the Republic for the 18th legislature of the Italian Republic since 1948. The election took place concurrently with the Lombard and Lazio regional elections. No party or coalition gained an absolute majority in the parliament, even though the centre-right coalition won a plurality of seats as a coalition, and the Five Star Movement (M5S) won a plurality of seats as an individual party.

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.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carlo Calenda</span> Italian politician (born 1973)

Carlo Calenda is an Italian business executive and politician. On 2 May 2013, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Economic Development in the government of Enrico Letta, and was later confirmed in that post in the cabinet of Letta's successor, Matteo Renzi.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Progressive Camp</span> Political party in Italy

The Progressive Camp was a left-wing political party in Italy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Article One (political party)</span> Italian political party

Article One, officially Article 1 – Democratic and Progressive Movement, was a social-democratic political party in Italy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Popular Alternative</span> Political party in Italy

Popular Alternative is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy that was founded on 18 March 2017 after the dissolution of New Centre-Right (NCD), one of the two parties that emerged at the break-up of The People of Freedom. "Popular" is a reference to popolarismo, the Italian variety of Christian democracy. The party has been a member of the European People's Party (EPP) since its foundation, having inherited the membership of the NCD.

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 Area was a progressive political party in Italy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Progressive Area</span> Political party in Italy

Progressive Area was a democratic-socialist political party in Italy.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Giulio Santagata</span> Italian politician (1949–2024)

Giulio Santagata was an Italian politician who was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the leader of Together.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 European Parliament election in Italy</span>

The 2019 European Parliament election in Italy were held on 26 May 2019, electing members of the 9th Italian delegation to the European Parliament as part of the European elections held across the European Union.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Massimo Zedda</span> Italian politician

Massimo Zedda is an Italian politician, Mayor of Cagliari from 2011 to 2019 and again since 2024.

Action is a liberal political party in Italy. Its leader is Carlo Calenda, a member of the European Parliament within the group of Renew Europe and former minister of Economic Development.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Progressive Party (Sardinia)</span> Political party in Italy

The Progressive Party is a progressive political party active in Sardinia, led by Massimo Zedda, mayor of Cagliari.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Democratic Party – Democratic and Progressive Italy</span> Italian centre-left electoral list

Democratic Party – Democratic and Progressive Italy is the parliamentary group of the Democratic Party (PD) and minor allied parties in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic, formed in October 2022. Prior to the formation of the group, its name was that of the lead electoral list of the centre-left coalition in the 2022 Italian general election.

References

  1. 1 2 Nordsieck, Wolfram (2018). "Italy". Parties and Elections in Europe.
  2. "Ecco "Insieme", la lista ulivista alleata del Pd". 28 August 2018.
  3. ""Insieme", Psi con Verdi e prodiani alleati di Renzi: "Non siamo civette o mosche cocchiere". E c'è chi azzarda: "7–8%" – Il Fatto Quotidiano". 14 December 2017.
  4. "Ritorna, in piccolo, L'Ulivo e l'avversario è sempre lo stesso: "Siamo gli unici che hanno battuto due volte Berlusconi"". 14 December 2017.
  5. "Centrosinistra: Fassino, siamo argine a Berlusconi e populisti".
  6. "Centrosinistra, a Napoli l'assemblea nazionale di Area Progressista(LaPresse) – QuotidianoNet". 29 December 2017.
  7. "Area progressista, corriamo da soli – Ultima Ora". 4 January 2018.
  8. "Centrosinistra, intesa raggiunta tra Area Progressista e +Europa – Più Mezzogiorno". 18 January 2018.
  9. "Elezioni, Area Progressista a sostegno di +Europa". 18 January 2018.
  10. webit.it; Tuttifrutti. "Verdi dell'Emilia-Romagna soddisfatti per elezione di Matteo Badiali a co-portavoce Verdi italiani". Ravennanotizie.it (in Italian). Retrieved 27 January 2019.