Italy of Values
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Italy of Values
Italia dei Valori |
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| Secretary | Ignazio Messina |
| Founder | Antonio Di Pietro |
| Founded | 21 March 1998 |
| Headquarters | Via Santa Maria in Via, 12 00187 Rome |
| Newspaper | Orizzonti Nuovi |
| Ideology |
Big tent Centrism Populism Anti-corruption politics |
| National affiliation |
The Union (2005–08) PD–IdV (2008–11) Civil Revolution (2013) |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | No MEPs |
| Chamber of Deputies |
1 / 630
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| Senate |
1 / 315
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| European Parliament |
0 / 73
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| Website | |
| www.italiadeivalori.it | |
Italy of Values (Italian: Italia dei Valori, IdV) is a centrist,populist and anti-corruptionpolitical party in Italy. The party was founded by former Mani pulite prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro, who entered politics in 1996.
The party aims at gathering and giving voice to different sectors of the Italian society. From the beginning of its existence one of its major issues has been the so-called "moral issue".
Antonio Di Pietro was minister of Public Works in the Prodi I Cabinet from May to November 1996, when he resigned because he was under investigation in Brescia. In November 1997 Di Pietro was elected senator for The Olive Tree in a by-election in Mugello, a stronghold of the Democrats of the Left (DS) in Tuscany, by trouncing his major opponent Giuliano Ferrara 67.7% to 16.1% and despite the presence of a Communist candidate on the ballot, Sandro Curzi who received 13.0%. In March 1998 Di Pietro set up his own Italy of Values (IdV) party, alongside Willer Bordon of the Democratic Union and Rino Piscitello and Franco Danieli of The Network.
In February 1999 Di Pietro integrated IdV into The Democrats, a new centrist party founded by Romano Prodi with the goal of transforming The Olive Tree coalition in a single "Democratic" party. In the 1999 European Parliament election The Democrats scored 7.7% and Di Pietro was elected MEP. He was also appointed organisational secretary and Senate floor leader of the party. In April 2000, however, Di Pietro abruptly left in opposition to the appointment of Giuliano Amato, a long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party (which was the main subject of investigation of Di Pietro as prosecutor), as Prime Minister of Italy after the resignation of Massimo D'Alema. Shortly afterwards, Di Pietro set up IdV again.
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