The Democratic Union was a little social-liberal party formed for 1996 elections by Antonio Maccanico (president of the party until 1999), Willer Bordon and Giorgio Benvenuto. In 1999 the party joined the new Romano Prodi's creature, the Democrats. Romano Prodi (born in Scandiano, near Reggio Emilia, on 9 August 1939) is an Italian politician. ... When Romano Prodi was ousted from his post of Italian President of the Council of Ministers, he launched a new party called Democrats with his fellows (Arturo Parisi above all, the Democratic Union of Antonio Maccanico, the Italy of Values movement of Antonio Di Pietro (who left the party in...