Democratic Union for Consumers
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Democratic Union for Consumers
Unione Democratica per i Consumatori |
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| Secretary | Bruno De Vita |
| Coordinator | Roberto Manzione |
| Founded | 11 September 2007 |
| Headquarters | unknown |
| Newspaper | none |
| Membership | unknown |
| Ideology | Centrism, Populism |
| European affiliation | none |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | none |
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| http://www.udconsumatori.it/ | |
Democratic Union for Consumers (Italian: Unione Democratica per i Consumatori, UDpC) is a centrist Italian political party. The party supports consumer protection and trade union rights.
UD was founded on 11 September 2007 by two dissenting members of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL) who were opposed to the foundation of the Democratic Party (PD).Willer Bordon (leader of the new party) and Roberto Manzione, and two leading consumer rights leaders, Elio Lanutti and Bruno De Vita, leader of United Consumers, were integrated in the new party. Bordon and Manzione were both members of the most Ulivista faction in DL, that one led by Arturo Parisi and decided to leave DL because in their opinion, PD was born as a bureaucratic union of apparatuses between DL and the Democrats of the Left and they were the "true Democrats".
Bordon had been a strong supporter of the idea of a "Democratic Party" since 1992, when he left the Democratic Party of the Left to form Democratic Alliance, forerunner of the first Democratic Union, The Democrats and Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, respectively. All four parties were committed in uniting the whole Italian centre-left into a single party and Bordon was a keen supporter of this.
On 27 November 2007 UD formed a joint group in the Senate with Liberal Democrats of Lamberto Dini. The convergence between the two small parties, which retained their autonomy, is based on some key points (a plurality voting system, more powers for the prime minister, fiscal conservatism, tax cuts and social security reform) and was open to all the senators.
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