Italian Republican Party

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Italian Republican Party




Secretaty	Francesco Nucara

Founded	12 April 1895
Headquarters	Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 326 00186 Rome
Newspaper	La Voce Repubblicana
Membership (2005)	12,000^[1] max: 108,589 (1978)

Ideology	Liberalism, Social liberalism
Coalition	People of Freedom
International	none
European party	European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
European Parliament Group	currently no MEPs

Website	http://www.pri.it

The Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italiano, PRI) is a liberal Italian political party.

It is an old liberal party in Italy, that originally took a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political position of Giuseppe Mazzini. The party is a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party.

1 Recent history
2 Leadership
- 2.1 Secretaries
- 2.2 Presidents
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Recent history

In 1994 the Italian Republican Party lost most of its voters and members in the wake of the Tangentopoli scandal. It also suffered a split at this time, as some centre-left politicians including Giorgio Bogi left and formed the Republican Left party. Some Republican politicians left PRI for Forza Italia, among them Jas Gawronski, Guglielmo Castagnetti, Alberto Zorzoli, Luigi Casero, Denis Verdini, Piergiorgio Massidda, Mario Pescante, etc.. Others joined the Democrats of Left, including Stefano Passigli, Giuseppe Ayala, Andrea Manzella, Adolfo Battaglia, and Giorgio Bogi. Later the PRI lost members to Democracy is Freedom – Daisy, including Enzo Bianco, Antonio Maccanico, Roberto Manzione, and others.

In 1994 some members of PRI were elected to Parliament on the Democratic Alliance list, while others, including Giorgio La Malfa and Carla Mazzuca , were elected on Patto Segni's list.

From 1996 to 2001, PRI was part of the Olive Tree centre-left coalition. In 1996 PRI elected 2 deputies (Giorgio La Malfa and Luciana Sbarbati) and 2 senators (Antonio Duva and Stelio De Carolis, both of whom subsequently switched to the Democrats of the Left).

In 2001 the party decided to ally with Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms and elected one deputy (Giorgio La Malfa) and one senator (Antonio Del Pennino). Two left-wing groups seceded from the party: the European Republican Movement, led by Luciana Sbarbati, and the Democratic Republicans, led by Giuseppe Ossorio.

PRI participated to Berlusconi's third government having Giorgio La Malfa, current president of the party, as Minister for European Affairs and Francesco Nucara as Deputy-Minister for the Environment.

In the 2006 election Francesco Nucara and Giorgio La Malfa were elected on the Forza Italia's lists for the Chamber of Deputies, while the party decided to run under its own banner for the Senate. Anyway Antonio Del Pennino was elected senator on Forza Italia's list.

On March 18, 2007 the party formed a federation with the Italian Liberal Party, named Republicans, Liberals, Reformers and subsequently formed a political component with the same name in the Chamber of Deputies along with Giovanni Ricevuto, former member of the New Italian Socialist Party and briefly member of Forza Italia's group.

As of November 2007 PRI is trying to enlarge the federation to other liberal groups, starting from the Liberal Reformers and Decide! with the final goal of the creation of a single liberal party, whose formation seems anyway unlikely, due to the different political strategies of the four small parties.

[edit] Leadership

[edit] Secretaries

Secretaries since 1945:

Randolfo Pacciardi (1945–1949)
Oronzo Reale (1949–1964)
Oddo Biasini, Claudio Salmoni and Emanuele Terrana (1964–1965)
Ugo La Malfa (1965–1975)
Oddo Biasini (1975-1979)
Giovanni Spadolini (1979–1987)
Giorgio La Malfa (1987–1993)
Giorgio Bogi (1993–1994)
Giorgio La Malfa (1994–2001)
Francesco Nucara (2001–...)

[edit] Presidents

Presidents since 1965:

Oronzo Reale (1965–1975)
Ugo La Malfa (1975–1979)
Bruno Visentini (1979–1992)
Guglielmo Negri (1995–2000)
Giorgio La Malfa (2001–2006)

v • d • e Political parties in Italy (in 2007, historical parties)

Major	The People of Freedom – Democratic Party

Medium	Lega Nord – Union of Christian and Centre Democrats – Italy of Values – Communist Refoundation Party

Minor	Movement for Autonomy – Italian Radicals – Italian Republican Party – White Rose – The Right – Party of Italian Communists – Socialist Party – Tricolour Flame – Federation of the Greens – Democratic Left – Workers' Communist Party – Associative Movement Italians Abroad – New Force

Regional	Valdotanian Union – Edelweiss Aosta Valley – Autonomist Federation – Valdotanian Renewal – Lively Aosta Valley – Moderates for Piedmont – South Tyrolean People's Party – The Libertarians – Union for South Tyrol – Daisy Civic List – Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party – North-East Project – Veneto for the EPP – UDEUR Populars – Democratic Populars – United Populars – Sardinian Reformers – Sardinian People's Party – Sardinian Democratic Union – Sardinian Action Party

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