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Political parties in Italy are organized into two dominant political coalitions. Numerous parties operate; no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments. // Political scientists have developed concepts of different ideal types of political parties in order to better compare them with each other. ... A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a cabinet in parliamentary government in which several parties cooperate. ...



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Image File history File links Flag_of_Italy. ... The Union (Italian: LUnione) is an Italian centre-left political party coalition. ... Casa delle Libertà, or House of Freedoms in English, is an Italian right of center party alliance led by national media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. ... The Parliament of Italy (Italian: Parlamento Italiano) is the national parliament of Italy. ... For the Italian political alliance see Olive Tree, and the color, olive (color). ... The Democrats of the Left (Italian: Democratici di Sinistra, often referred to as DS) is the main Italian left-wing political party, part of the Ulivo electoral coalition. ... Daisy-Democracy is Freedom (full name in Italian: Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita: Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy) is a centrist political Party in Italy. ... The European Republican Movement (Italian: Movimento Repubblicani Europei) of Italy is a small center left liberal party, part of the Olive Tree coalition and the ALDE group in the European Parliament. ... The Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista) is an Italian reformed communist party. ... The Rose in the Fist is an Italian political federation of parties founded in 2005. ... The Italian Democratic Socialists (Italian: Socialisti Democratici Italiani), or SDI, is a small social democratic party of moderate-left policies, heir of the old Italian Socialist Party and led by Enrico Boselli. ... Do not confuse the Italian Radicals with the Transnational Radical Party. ... The Party of Italian Communists (Italian: Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, also translated into English as Italian Communists Party) is a political party in Italy. ... Italy of Values (Italian: Italia dei Valori, also known as Lista Di Pietro) is a liberal party and anti-corruption political movement in Italy, headed by former magistrate and Mani Pulite campaigner Antonio Di Pietro. ... The Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi, or just Verdi) is the Italian Green Party. ... The Popular-UDEUR (Italian: Popolari-UDEUR) is a small centrist political party in Italy, led by Clemente Mastella. ... The South Tyrolese Peoples Party (German: Südtiroler Volkspartei) was founded 1945 and is a political party in the South Tyrol region of Italy. ... Autonomy Liberty Democracy (French: Autonomie Liberté Démocratie) is a political party in Italy, active in Val dAosta. ... Forza Italia (Forward Italy) is an Italian party. ... National Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Nazionale, often shortened to AN) is a right-wing Italian political party. ... 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. ... The Movement for Autonomy (Italian: Movimento per lAutonomia or MPA) is a minor Italian political party, founded on April 30, 2005 by a number of Southern Italian, especially Sicilian, centre-of-right autonomist dissidents, notably from Democrats Centre Union and National Alliance. ... Christian Democracy for the Autonomies (Italian: Democrazia Cristiana per le Autonomie), often referred to as New DC (Nuova DC), is a minor centrist political party founded October 25, 2004 by former Democrats Centre Union MP Gianfranco Rotondi. ... The Partito Socialista – Nuovo PSI (NPSI) is a small Italian party which professes a social-democratic ideology and claims to be the successor to the old Italian Socialist Party, which was disbanded after the judiciary tempest of the early 1990s (see Mani Pulite). ... The Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italiano) is an old left liberal party in Italy, with roots to Giuseppe Mazzini. ... Liberal Reformers is a party founded in 2005 by a split from Italian Radicals of those radicals that were against the alliance with Italian Democratic Socialists. ... The For Italy in the World with Tremaglia (Italian: Partito per Italia nel mondo con Tremaglia) is a political party in Italy, active with voters living abroad. ... The Socialists (Italian: I Socialisti) is a minor Italian political party, born in February 7, 2006, as split of the Socialist Party New PSI wing favourable to a political alliance with The Union and an immediate discontinuance to the ties with the House of Freedoms. ... The Federation of Italian Liberals (Federazione dei Liberali Italia) is a liberal party in Italy. ... The United Democratic Christians (Italian: Democratici Cristiani Uniti) is a political party in Italy. ... The Consumers List (Italian: Lista Consumatori) is a political party in Italy. ... The United Consumers (Italian: Consumatori Uniti) is a political party in Italy. ... The League for Autonomy-Lombard Alliance of Italy (Italian: Lega Alleanza Lombarda) is a political party in Italy, especially in the region of Lombardy. ... Liga Fronte Veneto is a splinter party of the Northern League which claims independence from Italy for the Veneto. ... The Pensioners Party of Italy (Italian: Partito Pensionati) is led by Carlo Fatuzzo. ... Alternativa Sociale (English language: Social Alternative) is an Italian political coalition of neo-fascist parties. ... Azione Sociale (Social Action), previously known as Libertà di Azione (Freedom of Action), is an Italian extremely-conservative and neo-fascist political party, led by Alessandra Mussolini, and a splinter group from Alleanza Nazionale. ... Forza Nuova (New Force) is an Italian nationalist and neo-fascist movement, a member of the European National Front. ... Fronte Sociale Nazionale is an Italian far right political party. ... The Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore is a hardline Italian right-wing party. ... The Italian Liberal Party (Italian: Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI) was an Italian free market liberal party. ... The No Euro Movement is a small political party that aims to remove the Euro as the Italian currency, returning to the Italian lira, and advocates governmental control of the Italian Central Bank. ... The United Pensioners of Italy (Italian: Pensionati Uniti) is a political party in Italy. ... The Christian Extended Pact (Italian: Patto Cristiano Esteso) is a political party in Italy. ... The Environmental List-Ecological Democrats of Italy (Italian: Ambienta-Lista-Ecologisti Democratici) is a political party in Italy. ... The S.O.S. Italy (Italian: ) is a political party in Italy. ... New Sicily (Italian: Nuova Sicilia) is a political party in Italy. ... The Pact for Sicily (Italian: Patto per la Sicilia) is a political party in Italy. ... The Valdotanian Union (French: Union Valdôtaine) is a liberal regionalist political party in the Aosta Valley, Italy. ... The Sardinian Action Party (Italian Partito Sardo dAzione) is a progressive regionalist political party in Italy, Sardinia. ... Sardinia Nation (Sardigna Natzione) is a regionalist political party in Italy, Sardinia. ... The Union for South Tyrol (Union für Südtirol) is a regionalist political party in Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy. ... The Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (Italian: Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e dei Democratici di Centro), commonly abbrieviated to UDC, is a political party in Italy formed by a merger of the former Christian Democratic Centre (CCD, led by Pierferdinando Casini from 1994 to 2001, then by Marco Follini... The Fascism and Freedom Movement (Movimento Fascismo e Libertà) (MFL) is an Italian fascist party. ... The Humanist Party (in Italian: Partito Umanista) is a minor political party in Italy and is a member of the Humanist International. ... AISA symbol The Italian Association in South America (Italian: Associazioni Italiane in Sud America) is an Italian political party. ... Marxist-Leninist Italian Communist Party (in Italian: Partito Comunista Italiano Marxista-Leninista, PCIM-L) is a small communist party in Italy. ... Alleanza Monarchica, or Monarchist Alliance is a minor Italian political party dedicated to the resoration of the monarchy in Italy, which was removed in a 1946 referendum. ... The North-East Project is a strongly autonomist and federalist party founded in Veneto in 2004 by Giorgio Panto, former members of the Liga Veneta-Northern League and former members of Liga Fronte Veneto, as former leader and Venetist historian Ettore Beggiato. ... Social Idea Movement (Italian: Movimento Idea Sociale) is an Italian neo-fascist political party, led by Pino Rauti, born from a split of the Fiamma Tricolore party. ... Christian Democracy, (Democrazia Cristiana), the Christian democratic party of Italy, commonly called the democristiani or DC, dominated government for nearly half a century until its demise amid a welter of corruption allegations in 1992-94. ... The Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) or Italian Communist Party emerged as Partito Comunista dItalia or Communist Party of Italy from a secession by the Leninist comunisti puri tendency from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) during that bodys congress on 21 January 1921 at Livorno. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Italian Social Movement (Movimento sociale italiano ) (MSI) was a neo-Fascist party formed 1946 in the post-World War II period by supporters of the executed dictator Benito Mussolini under the lead of Giorgio Almirante. ... The Democratic Party of the Left (Italian: Partito democratico della Sinistra, or PdS) was the evolution in a social-democratic direction of the Italian Communist Party, or PCI. It was founded by Achille Occhetto, last secretary of the PCI and first of the PdS. The logo of the PdS consisted... Proletarian Democracy (in Italian: Democrazia Proletaria) was a political party in Italy. ... The Proletarian Unity Party (Italian: Partito di Unità Proletaria, PdUP) was a political party in Italy. ... Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (in Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria), was a political party in Italy 1964 to 1972. ... Symbol of PSI-PSDI Unified. ... The Italian Democratic Socialists (Italian: Socialisti Democratici Italiani), or SDI, is a small social democratic party of moderate-left policies, heir of the old Italian Socialist Party and led by Enrico Boselli. ... The Democratic Alliance was an Italian political party that was originally meant to be the container of an alliance of left-wing forces for the parliamentary elections of 1994. ... La Rete (The Net) was the common name given to Movimento per la Democrazia - La Rete (Movement for Democracy - The Net), an Italian political party led by Leoluca Orlando. ... Image taken from Presidenza della Repubblica, in Italian. ... Politics of Italy takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister of Italy is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. ...



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The Constitutional Court of Italy (Italian: Corte costituzionale della Repubblica Italiana) is the supreme court of Italy. ... The President of the Italian Republic is the head of State of Italy, and represents national unity. ... Giorgio Napolitano (born June 29, 1925 in Naples, Italy), an Italian politician and former lifetime senator, is the eleventh and current President of the Italian Republic. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers of Italy. ...   (born August 9, 1939) is a centre-left Italian politician. ... The Parliament of Italy (Italian: Parlamento Italiano) is the national parliament of Italy. ... The Italian Senate (Italian: Senato della Repubblica, Senate of the Republic) is the upper house of the Parliament of Italy. ... The Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italian: Camera dei Deputati) is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy. ... The Court of Cassation (Corte di Cassazione in Italian) is the main court of last resort in Italy. ... Casa delle Libertà, or House of Freedoms in English, is an Italian right of center party alliance led by national media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. ... The Union (Italian: LUnione) is an Italian centre-left political party coalition. ... Elections in Italy gives information on election and election results in Italy. ... A general election for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy was held on April 9 and April 10, 2006. ... A national general election was held in Italy on May 13, 2001 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. ... The Constitution of Italy provides for legally binding referenda. ... The Regions of Italy were granted a degree of regional autonomy in the 1948 constitution, which states that the constitutions role is: to recognize, protect and promote local autonomy, to ensure that services at the State level are as decentralized as possible, and to adapt the principles and laws... In Italy, the province (in Italian: provincia) is an administrative division of an intermediate level, between municipality (comune) and region (Regione). ... Municipalities of Italy In Italy, the comune, (plural comuni) is the basic administrative unit of both provinces and regions, and may be properly approximated in casual speech by the English word township or municipality. ... The European Union or EU is a supranational and international organization of 27 member states. ... This article describes the foreign relations of Italy. ... This is a list of major political scandals in Italy: Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconis many corruption charges Tax evasion bribing members of the judicary immunity legislation Media manipulation fro political propaganda P2 scandal, 1980s Tangentopoli (diffuse corruption cases in national politics), early 1990s Categories: Incomplete lists | Politics of Italy... Information on politics by country is available for every country, including both de jure and de facto independent states, inhabited dependent territories, as well as areas of special sovereignty. ...

Coalitions

Casa delle Libertà, or House of Freedoms in English, is an Italian right of center party alliance led by national media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi. ... The Union (Italian: LUnione) is an Italian centre-left political party coalition. ... For the Italian political alliance see Olive Tree, and the color, olive (color). ... Alternativa Sociale (English language: Social Alternative) is an Italian political coalition of neo-fascist parties. ...

Major

The six political parties (or lists, federations or alliances of parties) that have had more than 4% at the 2006 Chamber of Deputies elections The Italian Chamber of Deputies (Italian: Camera dei Deputati) is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy. ... A general election for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy was held on April 9 and April 10, 2006. ...

For the Italian political alliance see Olive Tree, and the color, olive (color). ... Forza Italia (Forward Italy) is an Italian party. ... National Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Nazionale, often shortened to AN) is a right-wing Italian political party. ... The Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (Italian: Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e Democratici di Centro) is a political party in Italy formed by a merger of the former Centro Cristiano Democratico and Christiani Democratici Uniti parties. ... The Communist Refoundation Party (Italian: Partito della Rifondazione Comunista) is an Italian reformed communist party. ... 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. ... The Movement for Autonomy (Italian: Movimento per lAutonomia or MPA) is a minor Italian political party, founded on April 30, 2005 by a number of Southern Italian, especially Sicilian, centre-of-right autonomist dissidents, notably from Democrats Centre Union and National Alliance. ...

Minor

Less than 4% at the 2006 Chamber of Deputies elections:

A party founded in 2005 by former Democrats Centre Union Gianfranco Rotondi. ... The Consumers List (Italian: Lista Consumatori) is a political party in Italy. ... The European Republican Movement (Italian: Movimento Repubblicani Europei) of Italy is a small center left liberal party, part of the Olive Tree coalition and the ALDE group in the European Parliament. ... The Federation of the Greens (Federazione dei Verdi, or just Verdi) is the Italian Green Party. ... The Federation of Italian Liberals (Federazione dei Liberali Italia) is a liberal party in Italy. ... The Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore is a hardline Italian right-wing party. ... AISA symbol The Italian Associations in South America (Italian: Associazioni Italiane in Sud America) is an Italian political party. ... The Italian Democratic Socialists (Italian: Socialisti Democratici Italiani), or SDI, is a small social democratic party of moderate-left policies, heir of the old Italian Socialist Party and led by Enrico Boselli. ... The Italian Liberal Party (Italian: Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI) was an Italian free market liberal party. ... The Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italiano) is an old left liberal party in Italy, with roots to Giuseppe Mazzini. ... The Italy of Values-List Di Pietro (Italia dei Valori - Lista Di Pietro) is a liberal party and anti-corruption political movement in Italy, headed by former magistrate and Clean Hands campaigner Antonio Di Pietro. ... Liberal Reformers is a party founded in 2005 by a split from Italian Radicals of those radicals that were against the alliance with Italian Democratic Socialists. ... Forza Nuova (New Force) is an Italian nationalist and neo-fascist movement, a member of the European National Front. ... Fronte Sociale Nazionale is an Italian far right political party. ... The Party of Italian Communists (Italian: Partito dei Comunisti Italiani, also translated into English as Italian Communists Party) is a political party in Italy. ... The Pensioners Party of Italy (Italian: Partito Pensionati) is led by Carlo Fatuzzo. ... The Popular Alliance-UDEUR (Italian: Alleanza Popolare-UDEUR) is a small centrist political party in Italy, led by Clemente Mastella. ... The Rose in the Fist is an Italian political federation of parties founded in 2005. ... The Sardinian Action Party (Partito Sardo dAzione) is a regionalist political party in Italy, Sardinia. ... Sardinia Nation (Sardigna Natzione) is a regionalist political party in Italy, Sardinia. ... Azione Sociale (Social Action), previously known as Libertà di Azione (Freedom of Action), is an Italian fascist political party, led by Alessandra Mussolini, and a splinter group from Alleanza Nazionale. ... The Partito Socialista – Nuovo PSI (NPSI) is a small Italian party which professes a social-democratic ideology and claims to be the successor to the old Italian Socialist Party, which was disbanded after the judiciary tempest of the early 1990s (see Mani Pulite). ... The South Tyrolese Peoples Party (German: Südtiroler Volkspartei) was founded 1945 and is a political party in the South Tyrol region of Italy. ... The Socialists (Italian: I Socialisti) is a minor Italian political party, born in February 7, 2006, as split of the Socialist Party New PSI wing favourable to a political alliance with The Union and an immediate discontinuance to the ties with the House of Freedoms. ... The Union for South Tyrol (Union für Südtirol) is a regionalist political party in Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy. ... The Valdotanian Union (French: Union Valdôtaine) is a liberal regionalist political party in the Aosta Valley, Italy. ...

Former

Christian Democracy, (Democrazia Cristiana), the Christian democratic party of Italy, commonly called the democristiani or DC, dominated government for nearly half a century until its demise amid a welter of corruption allegations in 1992-94. ... The Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) or Italian Communist Party emerged as Partito Comunista dItalia or Communist Party of Italy from a secession by the Leninist comunisti puri tendency from the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) during that bodys congress on 21 January 1921 at Livorno. ... The Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (Partito Democratico Italiano di Unità Monarchica) was the continuation of the Italian Democratic Party, a monarchist party founded in 1959 by the union of the Peoples Monarchist Party and the National Monarchist Party. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (in Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria), was a political party in Italy 1964 to 1972. ... The Italian Social Movement (Movimento sociale italiano ) (MSI) was a neo-Fascist party formed 1946 in the post-World War II period by supporters of the executed dictator Benito Mussolini under the lead of Giorgio Almirante. ... The Democrazia Nazionale party was a spin-off of Movimento Sociale Italiano, after the electoral defeat of 1976. ... Proletarian Democracy (in Italian: Democrazia Proletaria) was a political party in Italy. ... The Proletarian Unity Party (Italian: Partito di Unità Proletaria, PdUP) was a political party in Italy. ... La Rete (The Net) was the common name given to Movimento per la Democrazia - La Rete (Movement for Democracy - The Net), an Italian political party led by Leoluca Orlando. ... Social Christians (Italian: Cristiano Sociali) is a social democratic party of the Christian Left founded in 1993. ... Tuscanian Alliance (in Italian: Alleanza Toscana) was a regionalist and autonomist political party in Tuscany, Northern Italy. ...

See also

Welcome to the index of political parties, an alphabetical list of (mainly) present-day political parties listed in the list of political parties. ... This is a list of political parties around the world. ... This is a list of political parties around the world by ideology. ... This is a list of political parties around the world by ideology. ... This article gives an overview of liberalism and radicalism in Italy. ...

Notes

  1. ^ The Olive Tree is a federation composed of three parties: the Democrats of the Left (Democratici di Sinistra), Democracy is Freedom - Daisy (Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita) and the European Republican Movement (Movimento dei Repubblicani Europei), and other independent people, such as Romano Prodi and Giuliano Amato
  2. ^ These two parties have eventually created two different and separate groups - one for the Northern League, and the other one for the Movement for Autonomy - in both houses of the Parliament elected in 2006

The Democrats of the Left (Italian: Democratici di Sinistra, often referred to as DS) is the main Italian left-wing political party, part of the Ulivo electoral coalition. ... Daisy-Democracy is Freedom (full name in Italian: Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita: Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy) is a centrist political Party in Italy. ... The European Republican Movement (Italian: Movimento Repubblicani Europei) of Italy is a small center left liberal party, part of the Olive Tree coalition and the ALDE group in the European Parliament. ...   (born August 9, 1939) is a centre-left Italian politician. ... Giuliano Amato (born May 13, 1938) is an Italian politician. ... The Parliament of Italy (Italian: Parlamento Italiano) is the national parliament of Italy. ...

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