Alliance for Italy
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Alliance for Italy
Alleanza per l'Italia |
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| President | Francesco Rutelli |
| Vice President | Enrico Boselli |
| Founded | 11 November 2009 |
| Dissolved | 2016 |
| Split from | Democratic Party |
| Headquarters | via Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, 16 00186 Rome |
| Ideology |
Centrism Liberalism Christian democracy Green politics |
| Political position | Centre |
| European affiliation | European Democratic Party |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | No MEPs |
| Website | |
| http://www.alleanzaperlitalia.it | |
Alliance for Italy (Italian: Alleanza per l'Italia, ApI) was a centristpolitical party in Italy.
The party, which was described in its manifesto as "democratic, liberal, popular" as opposed both to "right-wing populism" and the "social-democratic left", an experience with high and memorable value, yet by now run out", was launched on 11 November 2009 by Francesco Rutelli, senator for the Democratic Party (PD) and former leader of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL). The core of the party was composed by the Free Democrats, the faction Rutelli launched some months before leaving the PD.
Most of the early party members were liberals and Christian democrats coming from the PD, including Linda Lanzillotta, Gianni Vernetti and Donato Mosella or disgruntled centrists from Italy of Values, like Pino Pisicchio.
The party was officially disbanded by the end of 2016.
Francesco Rutelli, who, as leader of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, was instrumental in the foundation of the Democratic Party (PD), became soon uncomfortable with it because he saw as too stretched on the left. In September 2009, when he was a guest at a party convention of the Union of the Centre (UdC) of Pier Ferdinando Casini, he told the press that he was interested in an alliance with the new party Casini was organizing through the UdC. Rutelli's critical view of the PD was reinforced by the election of Pier Luigi Bersani as party leader in a primary election on 25 October 2009.
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