Freedom Party (Italy)

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The Freedom Party (Italian: Partito della Libertà) is a proposed political party in Italy. It is meant to be a merger of the various parties which were part of the Casa delle Libertà coalition in the 2006 general election. Its core will likely consist of Forza Italia, the National Alliance and the Northern League, while some other minor parties of the House of Freedoms might also join. It is considered unlikely that the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats would join, since they have started to distance themselves from the House of Freedoms and Silvio Berlusconi since the 2006 election.^[1]

In January 2007, Berlusconi announced that he would prefer Gianfranco Fini, the leader of the National Alliance, to become his successor and the future leader of the Freedom Party; this was critically received both by the centre-left government and his other (former) allies, the UDC and the Northern League.^[2] The Northern League even stated they would not join the Freedom Party if Fini would be the leader.^{[3] [4]}

Italian political parties (complete version, historical parties)
The Union	Olive Tree (Democrats of the Left - Democracy is Freedom – Daisy) - Communist Refoundation Party Minor: Rose in the Fist (Democratic Socialists - Italian Radicals) - Party of Italian Communists - Italy of Values - Federation of the Greens - Popular–UDEUR Micro: European Republican Movement - Democratic Republicans - Italian Democratic Socialist Party - United Consumers Regional: South Tyrolean People's Party - Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party - Valdotanian Renewal - Southern Democratic Party - Sardinia Project
House of Freedoms	Forza Italia - National Alliance - Union of Christian and Centre Democrats - Northern League Minor: Christian Democracy for the Autonomies - Movement for Autonomy - Pensioners' Party - Tricolour Flame - Social Action Micro: New Italian Socialist Party - Italian Republican Party - Liberal Reformers Regional: Sardinian Reformers - Sardinian People's Party - Sardinian Democratic Union - New Sicily
Others	Micro: Italian Associations in South America - Middle-of-the-Road Italy - Italians in the World Regional: Valdotanian Union - Edelweiss Aosta Valley - Autonomist Federation - Union for South Tyrol - The Libertarians - North-East Project Complete list