Pact for Italy Patto per l'Italia | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader | Mariotto Segni Mino Martinazzoli |
| Founded | January 1994 |
| Dissolved | March 1995 |
| Ideology | Liberalism Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre |
The Pact for Italy (Italian : Patto per l'Italia) was a centrist political and electoral alliance in Italy launched by Mario Segni and Mino Martinazzoli in 1994. [1] [2]
The alliance was composed of the Italian People's Party (PPI), the main successor party to Christian Democracy, the Segni Pact, [3] the Liberal Democratic Union of Valerio Zanone and remnants of the Italian Republican Party (PRI), alongside a certain number of independent politicians coming from the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. [4]
Originally Lega Nord was to also join the alliance, but Lega Nord leader Umberto Bossi decided to join Silvio Berlusconi's Pole of Freedoms instead. [5] [6]
The alliance finished third place in the 1994 general election, behind the centre-right Pole of Freedoms/Pole of Good Government and the left-wing Alliance of Progressives. The alliance returned 33 seats in the Chamber of Deputies. [7]
After the election, the alliance was disbanded. The PPI suffered a split of those who wanted to join Berlusconi's centre-right coalition (breaking from the PPI and forming the United Christian Democrats of Rocco Buttiglione) and those who wanted to ally with the left-wing Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). [8] The remaining PPI joined the PDS in the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree led by Romano Prodi. [8] Segni Pact become a minor force and formed the Pact of Democrats joint electoral list with Italian Renewal and the Italian Socialists for the 1996 general election in support of The Olive Tree. [9] The Italian Republican Party and the Liberal Democratic Union joined the list Populars for Prodi, also in support for The Olive Tree. [10]
It was composed of the following political parties:
| Party | Ideology | Leader | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italian People's Party (PPI) | Christian democracy | Mino Martinazzoli | |
| Segni Pact (PS) | Centrism | Mariotto Segni | |
| Italian Republican Party (PRI) | Liberalism | Giorgio La Malfa | |
| Liberal Democratic Union (ULD) | | Liberalism | Valerio Zanone | |
The Pact was also joined by a number of former members of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI), now running as independents, such as Giuliano Amato [11] and Giulio Tremonti. [12]
| Election | Leader | Chamber of Deputies | Senate of the Republic | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Position | Votes | % | Seats | Position | ||
| 1994 | Mario Segni | 6,019,038 | 15.63 | 4 / 630 | 3rd | 5,519,090 | 16.69 | 31 / 315 | 3rd |
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