Italian Radicals

Italian Radicals Radicali Italiani
Leader	Emma Bonino
Secretary	Riccardo Magi
President	Antonella Soldo
Treasurer	Michele Capano
Founder	Marco Pannella
Founded	14 July 2001
Headquarters	Via di Torre Argentina, 76 00186 Rome
Newspaper	Quaderni radicali, Notizie Radicali, Radio Radicale (FM radio)
Membership  (2007)	1,841
Ideology	Liberalism Libertarianism Left-libertarianism Anti-clericalism
National affiliation	none
European affiliation	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
International affiliation	none
European Parliament group	Non-Inscrits (2001–04) Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (2004–09)
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 630
Senate	0 / 315
European Parliament	0 / 73
Website
www.radicali.it
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The Italian Radicals (Italian: Radicali Italiani, RI) are a political party in Italy, which describes itself as a "liberale, liberista e libertario" (liberista means economic liberal or, better, libertarian in the American sense; libertario, here, denotes a form of cultural liberalism concerning moral issues, with some ideological connection with historical left-libertarianism).

From 2001 to 2017 the party intended to be the Italian section of the Transnational Radical Party (TRP), that is to say the continuation of the Radical Party founded in 1955 by the left-wing of the Italian Liberal Party and re-launched in the 1960s by Marco Pannella. As the Radical Party had become a transnational NGO working mainly at the UN-level, which by statute could not participate in national elections, its Italian members organised themselves into the Pannella List between 1992 and 1999 and the Bonino List until 2001, when they established the RI. In 2017 the TRP broke with the RI.

Founded on 14 July 2001 (with Daniele Capezzone as their first secretary), the RI are a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party. The party was previously a full member of the Liberal International.

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