List of Italian political parties

Political parties in Italy are numerous and there are hundreds of parties which are no longer active. Since World War II, no party has ever gained enough support to govern alone. Parties thus form political alliances and coalition governments.

In the latest general election in 2013, there were four major coalitions of political parties: the centre-left composed mainly of the Democratic Party and Left Ecology Freedom; the centre-right composed mainly of The People of Freedom and the Northern League; the anti-establishment Five Star Movement; and a new centrist coalition built around Civic Choice.

Between 1945 and 1994, Italian politics was dominated by two major parties: Christian Democracy, the main party of government, and the Italian Communist Party, the main opposition party. The other opposition party was the post-fascist Italian Social Movement. During its almost fifty years in government, Christian Democracy chose its coalition partners among four parties: the Italian Socialist Party, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party, the Italian Republican Party and the Italian Liberal Party.

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