Italian Liberal Right

The Italian Liberal Right (Destra Liberale Italiana, DLI), previously known as Liberals for Italy (Liberali per l'Italia, LpI) was a tiny conservative-liberal Italian political party.

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History

It was founded in 1994 as "Italian Liberal Right" (Destra Liberale Italiana, DLI) by members of the right-wing of the Italian Liberal Party. Leading members included Gabriele Pagliuzzi, Giuseppe Basini, Luciano Magnalbò and Saverio Porcari Lidestri.[1] DLI soon allied itself with the national-conservative National Alliance (AN), of which it became the liberal faction. In 1994, 1996 and 2001 some members of DLI, including Pagliuzzi, Basini and Magnalbò were elected in the Italian Parliament for AN.

In 2001 Pagliuzzi and Basini left AN, due to their exclusion from party lists for the general election, and re-established DLI, renaming it Liberal Right – Liberals for Italy (Destra Liberale – Liberali per l'Italia, DL-LpI). Basini left DL-LpI in 2004 in order to join the re-established Italian Liberal Party of Stefano De Luca, while Pagliuzzi remained in charge of party leadership. Magnalbò was Senator for AN until 2006 and then joined the new PLI in June 2007.

As of 2007 DL-LpI is little more than a tiny liberal political action committee. On 23 October, Eugenio Riccio (former member of the MSI and then of AN) joined Pagliuzzi in a convention on the future of the party. The most likely options seem either a merge with The Right[2] or with the Freedom People party.[3] At the beginning of December the party decided to re-name itself as Italian Liberal Right, the original name of 1994.[4]

In 2011 Pagluzzi led his group into The People of Freedom, the united centre-right party of Italy.[5]

Ideology

DLI was a conservative-liberal expousing a vigorous patriotism and a strong support for economic liberalism. These two elements put together can lead to classify the party's ideology as national liberalism. As heirs of the right-wing liberal tradition of Italy, DLI members were keen on supporting national identity and centralism. Thus they strongly opposed any form of federalism and proposed the abolition of the Regions, including those with special statute, and the Provinces in Italy.[3]

Leadership

References

  1. ^ http://www.laquintastagione.com/wp/?p=1789
  2. ^ http://www.liberaliperlitalia.it/pagina.phtml?_id_articolo=1251
  3. ^ a b Liberali per l'Italia - La Destra Liberale Italiana guarda con at
  4. ^ Liberali per l'Italia - Nasce Destra Liberale Italiana
  5. ^ http://www.milanotoday.it/politica/turci-pagliuzzi-liberali-pdl.html

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Italian political parties (simple version, historical parties)
    Represented in the Italian Parliament or in the European Parliament Other allied parties and movements
Left Major: Democratic Party | Italy of Values
Minor: Italian Radicals | Anticapitalist List (Communist Refoundation Party, Party of Italian Communists, United Consumers, Socialism 2000) | Federation of the Greens | Left, Ecology, Freedom (Movement for the Left, Unite the Left, Democratic Left, Socialism and Left, Ecologists) | Italian Socialist Party | United Socialists
Micro: Democratic Union for Consumers Communists – Popular Left | Federation of Italian Liberals | Radicals of the Left | United Democratic Christians
Regional: Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party | South Tyrolean People's Party | Autonomy Liberty Democracy (Valdotanian Renewal, Lively Aosta Valley) | United Populars | Moderates for Piedmont Autonomists for Europe | Convergence for Friuli | IDEA – List for Veneto | Lega Alleanza Lombarda | Ladin Autonomist Union | Liga Veneta Repubblica | Venetian People's Unity | Loyal to Trentino |
Right Major: The People of Freedom | Lega Nord | Future and Freedom
Minor: Pole of Autonomy (The Right, Movement for Autonomy, Pensioners' Party, Alliance of the Centre, Lombardia Autonoma, Autonomist Trentino, S.O.S. Italy) Liberal Democrats
Micro: Italian Liberal Party Christian Democracy | Christian Extended Pact | No Euro Movement | Party of Social Democrats | United Pensioners | Libertarian Right | Movement for Italy | Federal Right
Regional: Federalist Alliance | North-East Project | Sardinian Reformers Fassa | Sardinian People's Party | Sardinian Democratic Union | New Sicily | United Valleys | Venetian People's Movement
Minor With MPs/MEPs: Union of the Centre (Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, White Rose, Christian Democratic Party, Party of Christian Democracy, Veneto for the European People's Party, Democratic Populars) | Tricolour Flame Social Movement | Alliance for Italy (incl. Union for Trentino) | UDEUR Populars | Italian Associations in South America | Critical Left | For the Common Good (Citizens' Political Movement, Federation of Liberal Democrats, Humanist Party, Green Front) | Italian Democratic Socialist Party | Associative Movement Italians Abroad
Regional: Autonomy Progress Federalism (Valdotanian Union, Edelweiss Aosta Valley, Autonomist Federation) | Union for South Tyrol | The Libertarians | Political Movement Ladins | Democratic Party of South Tyrol | South Tyrolean Freedom | Friuli Movement | Sardinian Action Party | Independence Republic of Sardinia | Southern Action League | We the South | I the South Sardinia Nation | Red Moors | Movement for the Independence of Sicily | Lega Sud Ausonia | Ligurian Independentist Movement | Forum of the Venetians | Venetian Agreement | Venetian National Party | Party of the Venetians
Other:
christian democratic: Christian Democratic Refoundation | I Love Italy | Italy of the Centre | Pact of Liberal Democrats
libertarian: Libertarian Movement
monarchist: Monarchist Alliance | Italian Monarchist Movement | Italian Monarchist Union | Values and Future with Emanuele Filiberto
communist: Italian Marxist-Leninist Party | Marxist-Leninist Italian Communist Party | Maoist Communist Party
fascist: New Force | National Social Front | Social Idea Movement