| Popular Alliance Alleanza Popolare |
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| Leader | Gabriele Gatti |
| Founded | 10 January 1993 |
| Headquarters | Via Luigi Cibrario, 25 - Cailungo |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| International affiliation | Alliance of Democrats |
| European affiliation | European Democratic Party |
| Official colours | Grey |
| Grand Councillors | 7 |
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| www.alleanzapopolare.net | |
| Politics of San Marino Political parties Elections |
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The Popular Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Popolare, AP) is a liberal political party in San Marino.
AP was born as an anti-establishment party in 1993, in parallel with the rise of Lega Nord in Italy, of which it has been long considered the Sanmarinese counterpart, but has since then become a stable political force in San Marino, participating in government coalitions with the centre-right Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party (PDCS) as well as with the left-wing Party of Socialists and Democrats (PSD) since 2002.
In the 2006 general election the party won 12.1% of the vote and 7 out of 60 seats in the Grand and General Council, making it the third largest party of the country. In 2008 after the breaking-up of the governing coalition, due to the rising clashes between AP and United Left, under the new electoral system, the party decided to join PDCS in the centre-right Pact for San Marino coalition for the 2008 general election, The electoral coalition won 35 seats out of 60 in the Grand and General Council in the Sammarinese parliamentary election, 2008 gaining 54.22% of the national vote and a governmental majority of 5 and has become the new government of San Marino and as a result the Popular Alliance which itself gained 7 seats out of the 35 the coalition gained and 11.52% of the national vote, as part of the coalition, is now part of the official new government with Assunta Meloni becoming one of the two Joint Captains Regent of San Marino.
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