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Alliance of the Centre (Italy)
Political party in Italy
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Alliance of the Centre (Italian: Alleanza di Centro, AdC), whose full name is Alliance of the Centre for the Territories (Italian: Alleanza di Centro per i Territori), was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
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Alliance of the Centre Alleanza di Centro | |
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| Secretary | Francesco Pionati |
| Deputy Secretary | Mario Pietracupa |
| Founded | 4 December 2008 |
| Dissolved | 2022 |
| Split from | Union of the Centre |
| Merged into | Us with Italy |
| Headquarters | Via dei Prefetti, 46 Rome |
| Ideology | Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre to centre-right[1][2] |
| National affiliation | Coalition: Centre-right coalition (2008–present) Electoral list: The Autonomy (2009) |
| Website | |
| www.alleanzadicentro.it | |
It was founded in November 2008 as Alliance of the Centre for Freedom (Italian: Alleanza di Centro per la Libertà) by splinters from the Union of the Centre (UdC) who wanted to return to an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition and support his fourth government.[3] Its leader is Francesco Pionati, deputy and formerly spokesman of the UdC.[3][4]
At the 2009 European Parliament election, AdC was part of The Autonomy,[5][6] an electoral coalition including The Right, the Movement for the Autonomies and the Pensioners' Party, which gained 2.2% of the vote and no MEPs.[7] In the 2010 general regional elections AdC ran its lists in a handful of regions, electing only one regional councillor in Pionati's homeregion, Campania (2.35%).[8] In the 2011 Molise regional election the party got the 6.73% of the vote and 2 seats in the Regional Council.[9]
On 20 January 2011, AdC was a founding component of Responsible Initiative (later renamed People and Territory), a centre-right group in the Italian Chamber of Deputies during the 16th Legislature.[10] In October 2012, the balance of accounts of the People of Freedom (PdL) showed that the Alliance of the Centre had received €80,000 of financial support from PdL.[11]
The party was renamed Alliance of the Centre for the Territories in July 2019.[12]
Pionati would later join Maurizio Lupi’s Us with Italy party, becoming a member of the party’s executive committee and steering committee.[13][14]
Leadership
- Secretary: Francesco Pionati