Popular Democrats
The Popular Democrats (Democratici Popolari, DP) was a Christian-leftist Italian political party active in the Aosta Valley of Italy. Its leading members included Cesare Dujany, Maurizio Martin and Angelo Pollicini.
The party emerged by a left-wing split (seven regional deputies out of 13) of regional Christian Democracy. Subsequently Popular Democrat leader Cesare Dujany became President of the Region at the head of a coalition composed of the Italian Socialist Party, the Valdotanian Rally and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. In the 1973 regional election DP won 22.4% of the vote and got elected eight regional deputies.
After the election Dujany was again President of the Region, this time with the support of the Socialists and the Progressive Valdotanian Union (UVP), but in 1974 he resigned and the Valdotanian Union returned in government.
In the 1979 general election, due to an electoral pact with UV, Dujany was elected to the Italian Parliament, where he served until 1996.
After a decline in term of votes (11.8% in 1978), DP joined forces with UVP in the 1983 regional election, winning 10.4%. In 1984 the two parties merged to form the Autonomists Democrats Progressives.
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Italian political parties (simple version, historical parties) |
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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 |
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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 |
Historical Italian political parties (current parties)
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Communist |
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Socialist and
social-democratic |
Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party, Italian Labour Party, Italian Socialist Party, Independent Socialist Party, Italian Reform Socialist Party, United Socialist Party (1922), Social Christian Party, United Socialist Party (1949), Italian Democratic Socialist Party, Unified Socialist Party, Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, Democratic Party of the Left/ Democrats of the Left, Italian Socialists/ Italian Democratic Socialists
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Green |
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Social-liberal |
Radical Party (1877), Constitutional Democratic Party, Democratic Liberal Party, Reform Democratic Party, Italian Social Democratic Party, Italian Republican Party, Party of Italian Peasants, Action Party, Labour Democratic Party, Republican Democratic Concentration, Community Movement, Radical Party (1955), Democratic Alliance, Democratic Union, Movement for Democracy – The Net, The Democrats, European Republicans Movement
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Centrist |
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Christian-democratic |
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Conservative-liberal |
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Conservative |
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Fascist and
post-fascist |
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Coalitions |
Leftist coalitions: Popular Democratic Front, Alliance of Progressives, The Left – The Rainbow
Centre-left coalitions: Socialist Unity, The Olive Tree, The Sunflower, The Union, Rose in the Fist
Centrist coalitions: Pact for Italy, Pact of Democrats
Centre-right coalitions: National Democratic Union, National Bloc, Pole of Freedoms, Pole of Good Government, House of Freedoms
Rightist coalitions: National Bloc of Freedom
Neo-fascist coalitions: Social Alternative
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