Pensioners' Party (Italy)
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| Pensioner's Party Partito Pensionati |
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 Italian National Party |
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| Leader | Carlo Fatuzzo |
| Coalition | House of Freedoms |
| Political ideology | Conservatism, Centrism, Christian Democracy |
| Official newspaper | None |
| Website | http://www.partitopensionati.it |
| See also | Politics of Italy |
The Pensioners' Party of Italy (Italian: Partito Pensionati) is led by Carlo Fatuzzo.
In the 2004 European Parliamentary Election it gained 1.1% of the national vote and elected its leader to the European Parliament. It is a conservative party member of the European Democrats.
On 4 February 2006, the party joined "L'Unione", the centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi, and was decisive for the result of the 2006 general election (the PP scored 0.9% and the centre-left won by a 0.1% margin), but soon after the election the relations with their new allies turned to be cold and tense. In the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani (Forza Italia, Vice President of the European People's Party, tempted to convince Fatuzzo to return back in the centre-right.
Finally, on 20 November 2006, Carlo Fatuzzo, in a press conference alongside with Antonio Tajani and Fabrizio Cicchitto (national deputy-coordinator of Forza Italia), announced that its party was re-joining the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition.
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