Pact for Italy
| Pact for Italy | |
|---|---|
| Patto per l'Italia | |
 | |
| Leader |
Mariotto Segni Mino Martinazzoli |
| Member parties |
People's Party, Segni Pact, Republican Party |
| Founded | January 1994 |
| Dissolved | March 1994 |
| Political position | Centre |
|
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections | |
The Pact for Italy (Italian: Patto per l'Italia) was a centrist[1][2] electoral alliance in Italy, launched by Mario Segni and Mino Martinazzoli in 1994.
It was composed of the Italian People's Party (PPI, the successor to Christian Democracy) and Segni Pact.[3] The alliance finished third in the 1994 general election, behind the centre-right Pole of Freedoms/Pole of Good Government and the left-wing Alliance of Progressives. The alliance returned 33 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.[4]
Originally Lega Nord was also to join the alliance, but LN leader Umberto Bossi decided to join Silvio Berlusconi's Pole of Freedoms instead.
After the election, the alliance was disbanded. The PPI suffered a split of those who wanted to join Berlusconi's centre-right (the United Christian Democrats of Rocco Buttiglione) and those who wanted to ally with the left-wing Democratic Party of the Left. Segni Pact become a minor force and formed a joint list, within the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree, with Italian Renewal and the Italian Socialists for 1996 general election called the Pact of Democrats.
References
- ↑ Richard Gunther; Nikiforos P. Diamandouros; Hans-Jürgen Puhle (1 August 1995). The Politics of Democratic Consolidation: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective. JHU Press. p. 378. ISBN 978-0-8018-4982-4.
- ↑ David Broughton (4 January 1999). Changing Party Systems in Western Europe. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 78. ISBN 978-1-85567-328-1. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
- ↑ Fabio Padovano; Roberto Ricciuti (21 November 2007). Italian Institutional Reforms: A Public Choice Perspective: A Public Choice Perspective. Springer. pp. 34–. ISBN 978-0-387-72141-5.
- ↑ Daniela Giannetti; Bernard Grofman (1 February 2011). A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform: Evaluating the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-4419-7228-6.
