Italian People's Party (1994-2002)

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The Italian People's Party (Partito Popolari Italiano, PPI) was an Italian christian-democratic party.

PPI was that party which succeeded to the Christian Democracy (DC) in January 1994.

The first secretary of the party was Mino Martinazzoli, replaced by Rocco Buttiglione in June 1994, after that the party suffered a huge defeat in April elections by both the centre-right and the centre-left, gaining only the 11.1%.

In 1995, when Buttiglione's proposal to join the centre-right coalition (composed of Forza Italia, the National Alliance and the Christian Democratic Centre) was rejected by the party's National Council, the outgoing secretary, along with Roberto Formigoni and Gianfranco Rotondi, formed the United Christian Democrats, leaving the PPI in the hands of the leftish factions of the late DC.

In 1996, the party formed a list (the PPI-UD-PRI-SVP for PRODI) with Antonio Maccanico's Democratic Union, the Italian Republican Party and the South Tyrolean People's Party. The list was part of the Olive Tree coalition and scored 6.8% at the elections. PPI was represented in Romano Prodi's government by three ministers: Beniamino Andreatta was Minister of Defense, Rosy Bindi Minister of Health and Michele Pinto Minister of Agriculture.

In 1999 European Parliament election, the party suffered of the competition of the The Democrats (Dem), a centrist party launched in 1999 by Romano Prodi's followers, the Democratic Union and the so-called Movement of Mayors of Francesco Rutelli and Massimo Cacciari. PPI scored only 4.3%, while Democrats won the 7.7% of votes.

In 2000 PPI formed an electoral alliance with The Democrats, the Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR) and Lamberto Dini's Italian Renewal (RI).

In January 2002, the party decided finally to merge in the new party, called Democracy is Freedom – Daisy, along with Dem and RI.

[edit] Leadership

  • Secretary: Mino Martinazzoli (1994), Rocco Buttiglione (1994-95), Gerardo Bianco (1995-97), Franco Marini (1997-99), Pierluigi Castagnetti (1999-2002)
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