The Democratic Union for the Republic (Unione Democratica per la Repubblica, UDR) was a short-lived christian-democratic and liberal political party in Italy. Christian Democracy is a diverse political ideology and movement. ... Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. ...

It was founded in June 1998 by Francesco Cossiga, Clemente Mastella (ex-Christian Democratic Centre, then leader of the Christian Democrats for the Republic), Rocco Buttiglione (leader of the United Christian Democrats), Mario Segni (leader of Patto Segni), Carlo Scognamiglio Pasini (ex-FI), Enrico Ferri (ex-CCD) and Irene Pivetti (ex-LN), along with many other MPs elected for the centre-right, in order to provide a majority in Parliament for Massimo D'Alema's government. Francesco Cossiga (born July 26, 1928) is an Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic. ... Mario Clemente Mastella (born 5 February 1947 in Ceppaloni, Benevento) is an Italian politician. ... The Christian Democratic Center was a political party born from a split from Italy Peoples Party (direct heir of the Christian Democracy) in 1994. ... Rocco Buttiglione. ... The United Christian Democrats is a late christian-democratic party of Italy, born in 1995 by a split, led by Rocco Buttiglione (secretary of the Italian Peoples Party in 1994-95), Roberto Formigoni and Gianfranco Rotondi, of those members of the Italian Peoples Party who wanted to enter... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... Forza Italia (Forward Italy) is an Italian party. ... Enrico Ferri (1856–1929) was an Italian criminologist and socialist who continued the work of Cesare Lombroso (see Anthropological criminology). ... The Northern League (Italian: Lega Nord) is an Italian political party founded in 1991 as a federation of several regional parties in Northern Italy, most of which had arisen, and all of which had expanded their share of the electorate, in the 1980s. ... Massimo DAlema (born on April 20, 1949 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian journalist and politician, a former prime minister and a former national secretary of the PDS, Partito Democratico della Sinistra. ...

After disagreements between the Cossiga and Mastella, the party split in February 1999 and most members rallied behind Mastella and entered in his Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR), later renamed into Popular-UDEUR. Those around Cossiga formed the Union for the Republic (UpR), whose most notable members such as Angelo Sanza and Giorgio Rebuffa joined Forza Italia in 2001, except Carlo Scognamiglio Pasini who joined the Federation of Italian Liberals and then European Democracy. The Popular-UDEUR (Italian: Popolari-UDEUR) is a small centrist political party in Italy, led by Clemente Mastella. ... Forza Italia (Forward Italy) is an Italian party. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... The Federation of Italian Liberals (Federazione dei Liberali Italia) is a liberal party in Italy. ... Party founded in 2000 by Sergio DAntoni, former head of the Catholic-oriented trade union called CISL, Giulio Andreotti and Ortensio Zecchino, all spliters of the Italian Peoples Party. ...