Italian Renewal
| Italian Renewal | |
|---|---|
| Rinnovamento Italiano | |
| Leader | Lamberto Dini |
| Founded | 27 February 1996 |
| Dissolved | 17 March 2002 |
| Merged into | Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Centrism |
| National affiliation | The Olive Tree |
| European affiliation | European People's Party[1][2][3] |
| European Parliament group | EPP-ED[4] |
|
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections | |
Italian Renewal (Italian: Rinnovamento Italiano, RI), officially the Dini List – Italian Renewal (Lista Dini – Rinnovamento Italiano, LD–RI) was a liberal[5] and centrist political party in Italy.
History
The party was founded in 1996 by Lamberto Dini, the outgoing Prime Minister, along with former Liberals, Socialists, Christian Democrats, Republicans and Social Democrats. The party joined the The Olive Tree centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi. In the 1996 general election RI, which gave hospitality in its lists to the Italian Socialists, Segni Pact and Italian Democratic Movement, won 4.3% of the vote. In the event, party won 26 seats at the Chamber:
- ten seats went to the Dini's group (Lamberto Dini, Augusto Fantozzi, Tiziano Treu, Natale D'Amico, Ernesto Stajano, Gianni Marongiu, Pierluigi Petrini, Andrea Guarino, Paolo Ricciotti, Lucio Testa);
- eight seats went to the Patto (Diego Masi, Giuseppe Bicocchi, Elisa Pozza Tasca, Gianni Rivera, Antonino Mangiacavallo, Gianantonio Mazzocchin, Bonaventura Lamacchia, Paolo Manca);
- seven seats went to Italian Socialist (Enrico Boselli, Giuseppe Albertini, Enzo Ceremigna, Giovanni Crema, Leone Delfino, Sergio Fumagalli, Roberto Villetti);
- one seat went to Italian Democratic Movement (Aldo Brancati).
The party also won 11 seats at the Senate:
- five seats went to Italian Socialist (Ottaviano Del Turco, Livio Besso Cordero, Giovanni Iuliano, Maria Rosaria Manieri, Cesare Marini);
- four seats to the Dini's group (Mario D'Urso, Bianca Maria Fiorillo, Angelo Giorgianni, Adriano Ossicini);
- one seat went to the Patto Segni (Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini);
- one seat went to Italian Democratic Movement (Giovanni Bruni).
After the election Lamberto Dini became Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tiziano Treu minister of Labour in the Prodi I Cabinet.
In October 2001 the party joined Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL), which became a unified party in March 2002. RI members in DL formed a faction within the party, named simply Renewal, consisting of around 10% of the party members. In 2007 several members of this association including Dini broke away from DL to form the Liberal Democrats.
Electoral results
Italian Parliament
| Chamber of Deputies | |||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 1,627,380 (#8) | 4.3 | 36 / 630 |
|
Lamberto Dini |
| Senate of the Republic | |||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | with Ulivo | |
11 / 315 |
|
Lamberto Dini |
European Parliament
| European Parliament | |||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 353,890 (#16) | 1.1 | 1 / 87 |
|
Lamberto Dini |
References
- ↑ Daniela Giannetti and Kenneth Benoit (edited by), Intra-party Politics and Coalition Governments, Routledge, Oxon 2008
- ↑ Thomas Jansen; Steven Van Hecke (28 June 2011). At Europe's Service: The Origins and Evolution of the European People's Party. Springer. p. 64. ISBN 978-3-642-19413-9. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
- ↑ "Rinnovamento italiano ammesso nel Ppe". Archiviostorico.corriere.it. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
- ↑ "Parlement Européen 1999". Europe-politique.eu. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
- ↑ Maurizio Cotta; Luca Verzichelli (12 May 2007). Political Institutions of Italy. Oxford University Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-19-928470-2. Retrieved 24 August 2012.
