Italia in Comune | |
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President | Federico Pizzarotti |
Coordinator | Alessio Pascucci |
Founded | 16 April 2018 |
Split from | Five Star Movement |
Headquarters | Piazzale San Lorenzo 1, Parma |
Ideology | Green politics Progressivism |
Political position | Centre-left |
National affiliation | More Europe (2019, 2022–2024) Action (2024–) [1] |
Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 400 |
Senate | 0 / 200 |
European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
Regional Councils | 0 / 897 |
Website | |
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Italia in Comune (IiC, English: Italy in Common) is a green and progressive political party in Italy. [2] [3] 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.
In October 2016, mayor of Parma Federico Pizzarotti left the Five Star Movement (M5S) [4] due to disagreements with the movement's founder, Beppe Grillo and his suspension from the party in the previous May. [5] 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). [6]
In the 2017 local elections, Pizzarotti was re-elected mayor without the M5S' support, with 58.9% in the run-off. [7]
In April 2018, Pizzarotti launched Italia in Comune, [8] [2] [9] 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). [10] [11]
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 [12] and soon became the party's regional coordinator in Emilia-Romagna, the region of Parma and, consequently, IiC's powerbase. [13] 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. [14] [15]
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. [16]
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. [17] [18] However, soon after the party switched allegiances, deserted the FdV and joined forces with More Europe (+E), a liberal party, [19] [20] [21] which was later enlarged to the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). [22]
In the run-up of the 2022 general election IiC lacked activity, [23] 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, [24] Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva [25] [26] and Carlo Calenda's Action, [27] while Alessio Pascucci organised the National Civic Agenda/Network [28] and joined Luigi Di Maio's Civic Commitment. [29] [30] [31] In August 2022, shortly before the election, both groups broke with their would-be allies. [32] [33]
In late 2022 Pizzarotti and Falasca re-joined +E, while continuing to be part of L'Italia c'è. [34] In February 2023 Pizzarotti was elected president of +E. [35]
European Parliament | |||||
Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | Leader |
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2019 | 833,443 (6th) [lower-alpha 1] | 3.11 | 0 / 76 | – |
Region | Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/– |
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Piedmont | 2019 | 11,183 (14th) | 0.58 | 0 / 51 | – |
Emilia-Romagna | 2020 | Into BP | – | 0 / 50 | – |
Abruzzo | 2019 | 23,168 (7th) | 3.86 | 1 / 31 | 1 |
Apulia | 2020 | 64,886 (10th) | 3.87 | 0 / 51 | – |
Sardinia | 2019 | 17,480 (15th) | 2.47 | 1 / 60 | 1 |
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