New Centre-Right
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New Centre-Right
Nuovo Centrodestra |
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| President | Angelino Alfano |
| Founded | 15 November 2013 |
| Split from | The People of Freedom |
| Headquarters | Via Arcione 71 00186 Rome |
| Newspaper | l'Occidentale (online) |
| Youth wing | Youth NCD |
| Membership (2014) | 100,000 |
| Ideology |
Conservatism Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation | Popular Area |
| European affiliation | European People's Party |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | European People's Party |
| Colours | Blue |
| Chamber of Deputies |
22 / 630
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| Senate |
23 / 315
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| European Parliament |
1 / 73
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New Centre-Right (Italian: Nuovo Centrodestra, NCD) is a centre-right political party in Italy.
The party was launched on 15 November 2013 by a group of dissidents of The People of Freedom (PdL) who opposed the party's transformation into Forza Italia (FI), which would take place the day after. The NCD leader is Angelino Alfano, who had been Silvio Berlusconi's protégé and national secretary of the PdL from 2011 to 2013.
On 11 September 2014 the NCD was officially accepted into the European People's Party (EPP).
The party was formed by splinters from the PdL on 15 November 2013. Its founders, lately known as "doves" in the party, were strong supporters of Enrico Letta's government and refused to join the new Forza Italia (FI), founded upon the dissolution of the PdL. All five PdL ministers, three under-secretaries, 30 senators and 27 deputies immediately joined the NCD. Most were Christian democrats and many came from the southern regions of Calabria and Sicily.
Besides Alfano (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior), leading members included Maurizio Lupi (Minister of Infrastructure and Transport), Nunzia De Girolamo (Minister of Agriculture), Beatrice Lorenzin (Minister of Health), Gaetano Quagliariello (Minister of Constitutional Reforms), Giuseppe Scopelliti (President of Calabria), Roberto Formigoni (former President of Lombardy), Renato Schifani (former President of the Senate and PdL floor leader until November 2013), Fabrizio Cicchitto (former PdL leader in the Chamber in 2008–2013) and Carlo Giovanardi (a former minister for the UDC).
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