European Choice

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European Choice
Scelta Europea
Leaders Michele Boldrin
Bruno Tabacci
Stefania Giannini
Founded4 March 2014
Ideology Liberalism
Political position Centre
European affiliation ALDE
European Parliament group No MEPs
European Parliament
0 / 73
Website
www.sceltaeuropea.it

European Choice (Italian : Scelta Europea, SE) was a pro-European and primarily liberal electoral alliance of political parties in Italy formed to contest the 2014 European election on a platform influenced heavily by the Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt.

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History

The list was supported by Civic Choice (SC), Democratic Centre (CD), Act to Stop the Decline (FFD), the Italian Liberal Party (PLI), the Italian Republican Party (PRI), the Liberal Democratic Alliance for Italy (ALI), the Conservatives and Social Reformers (CSR), the European Federalist Party (PFE) and miscellaneous minor movements. [1] [2] [3]

In early March 2014 the list received support from Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium and candidate of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) and the European Democratic Party for President of the European Commission, [4] and the endorsement of Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission and former president of the Democratic Party. [5] [6] Later, on 19 March, CD, FFD and other groups agreed to go forward with the creation of the list without SC [7] whose members criticised the deal and Verhofstadt himself. [8] In particular, senator Pietro Ichino explained that his party could not be part of a grouping so heterogeneous to include groups as diverse as the Conservatives and Social Reformers, whose MEP Cristiana Muscardini, a "nationalist", sat in the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, or MEP Sonia Alfano, a left-winger who had previously tried to join The Other Europe, a "far-left" anti-austerity list. [9] However, the list went ahead with the participation of SC (as originally planned) and the exclusion of Italy of Values, the main Italian member of the ALDE Party, and controversial candidates, including Muscardini and Alfano.

In the election SE received 0.7% of the vote, being stronger in the South (CD's heartland), [10] and failed to return any MEPs. [11]

Composition

PartyMain ideologyLeader
Civic Choice (SC) Liberalism Stefania Giannini
Democratic Centre (CD) Centrism Bruno Tabacci
Act to Stop the Decline (FFD) Economic liberalism Michele Boldrin
Conservatives and Social Reformers (CSR) Conservatism Cristiana Muscardini
Italian Liberal Party (PLI) Liberalism Enzo Palumbo
Italian Republican Party (PRI) Social liberalism Francesco Nucara
The Liberals Liberalism Edoardo Croci
Federation of Liberals (FdL) Liberalism Raffaello Morelli
Liberal Democratic Alliance for Italy (ALI) Liberism Silvia Enrico

Electoral results

European Parliament

Election year# of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		# of
overall seats won		+/–Leader
2014 197,942 (#9)0.72
0 / 73
–

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