Italian People's Party (1994)
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Italian People's Party
Partito Popolare Italiano |
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| Former Leaders |
Mino Martinazzoli, Rosa Russo Jervolino, Franco Marini, Ciriaco De Mita |
| Founded | 22 January 1994 |
| Dissolved | 6 December 2002 |
| Preceded by | Christian Democracy |
| Merged into | Democracy is Freedom |
| Newspaper | Il Popolo |
| Ideology |
Christian democracy Christian left Centrism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation |
Pact for Italy (1994) The Olive Tree (1995–2002) |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| International affiliation | Christian Democrat International |
| European Parliament group | European People's Party |
The Italian People's Party (Italian: Partito Popolare Italiano, PPI) was a Christian democratic,centrist, and progressive Catholicpolitical party in Italy.
The successor of Christian Democracy, the PPI was a member of the European People's Party. In December 2002 the PPI merged into Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, which later merged to form the Democratic Party in October 2007.
The party emerged as the successor to Christian Democracy (DC) in January 1994 following the final National Congress of DC, prior to the right-wing faction led by Pier Ferdinando Casini splitting to form the Christian Democratic Centre (CDC). The first secretary of the PPI was Mino Martinazzoli, replaced by Rocco Buttiglione in June, after that the party was soundly defeated in the 1994 general election by both the centre-right and the centre-left, gaining only the 11.1%, as part of the centrist alliance Pact for Italy.
In 1995, when Buttiglione's proposal to join the Pole of Freedoms centre-right coalition (composed of Forza Italia, the National Alliance and the CDC) was rejected by the party's National Council, the outgoing secretary, along with Roberto Formigoni and Gianfranco Rotondi, formed the United Christian Democrats, leaving the PPI in the hands of the leftist factions of the late DC.
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