Italian People's Party (1994-2002)
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Italian People's Party
Partito Popolare Italiano |
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| 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 Christian-leftistpolitical party in Italy. The party was a member of the European People's Party (EPP).
The PPI was the formal successor of the Christian Democracy (DC), but was soon deprived of its conservative elements, which successively formed the Christian Democratic Centre (CCD) in 1994 and the United Christian Democrats (CDU) in 1995. The PPI was finally merged into Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL) in 2002, and DL was later merged with the Democrats of the Left (DS) and minor centre-left parties into Democratic Party (PD) in 2007.
The party emerged in January 1994 as the successor to the Christian Democracy (DC), Italy's dominant party since World War II, following the final national council of the DC and the split of a right-wing faction led by Pier Ferdinando Casini, which had formed the Christian Democratic Centre (CCD). The first secretary of the PPI was Mino Martinazzoli, which led the party to a big defeat (11.1% of the vote) in the 1994 general election, fought in coalition with the Segni Pact, under the Pact for Italy banner. After the election, Martinazzoli was replaced as secretary by conservative philosopher Rocco Buttiglione.
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