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Italy in the Centre
Italia al Centro
PresidentGiovanni Toti
Founded28 April 2022
Split fromCoraggio Italia
Ideology
Political positionCentre
Colours  Orange   Blue
Chamber of Deputies
11 / 630
Senate
10 / 315
European Parliament
0 / 73
Regional Councils
12 / 897
Conference of Regions
1 / 21
Website
www.italiaalcentro.org

Italy in the Centre (Italian: Italia al Centro, IaC) is a centrist political party in Italy, led by Giovanni Toti.

History

In August 2019, Giovanni Toti left his former party Forza Italia (FI), and formed Cambiamo! (C!).[1][2][3] In May 2021 C! was a founding member of a new joint party named Coraggio Italia (CI), whose main leaders were Toti and Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of Venice.[4]

In less than a year, CI, which had failed to attract substantial support among voters according to opinion polls, experienced an internal crisis. On one side Toti wanted to form an alliance with Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva party[5][6] and launched Italy in the Centre (IaC),[7][8] on the other side Brugnaro rejected establishment politics[9] and wanted to remain part of the centre-right coalition.[10] In February 2022 CI's sub-group within the Mixed Group, previously named "IDeA–Cambiamo!–Europeanists", was re-named "Italy in the Centre".[11] On 28 April 2022 IdC was officially established.[12]

In May 2022, during a meeting of the national leadership, a provisional statute of IaC was approved and regional coordinators and a secretariat were appointed,[13] entirely supplanting Cambiamo!. Also in May, senators Francesco Mollame and Ugo Grassi joined IaC.[14][15]

In the 2022 local elections CI and IaC ran separately in most places. CI obtained relevant results only in Veneto, Brugnaro's home-region, most notably 5.2% in Verona and 4.4% in Padua, while IaC won 9.2% in Genoa, 8.5% in La Spezia, 3.7% in Rieti, 5.2% in L'Aquila and 4.3% in Catanzaro.

In late June 2022 CI and IaC formally split both in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.[16][17]

In July 2022 there was a party's convention in Rome, featuring as guests, among others, Mariastella Gelmini of Forza Italia, Carlo Calenda of Action and Ettore Rosato of Italia Viva.[18][19][20]

Composition

Member parties

Party Main ideology Leader
Cambiamo! (C!) Liberal conservatism Giovanni Toti
Identity and Action (IDeA) Liberal conservatism Gaetano Quagliariello
Europeanists Liberalism Raffaele Fantetti
Us of the Centre (nDC) Christian democracy Clemente Mastella

Parliamentary representation

Party Main ideology Deputies Senators Total MPs
Cambiamo! (C!)[a] Liberal conservatism 3 6 9
Vinciamo Italia (VI)[b] Conservative liberalism 8 0 8
Identity and Action (IDeA)[c] Liberal conservatism 0 1 1
Europeanists[d] Liberalism 0 1 1
Us of the Centre[e] Christian democracy 0 1 1
Total 11 9 20
  1. ^ Deputies Guido Della Frera, Manuela Gagliardi and Giorgio Silli; Senators Massimo Vittorio Berutti, Sandro Biasotti, Ugo Grassi, Francesco Mollame, Paolo Romani and Mariarosaria Rossi.
  2. ^ Deputies Fabiola Bologna, Maurizio D’Ettore, Marco Marin, Stefano Mugnai, Guido Pettarin, Cosimo Sibilia, Elisabetta Ripani and Simona Vietina.
  3. ^ Senator Gaetano Quagliariello, who is also a founding member of Cambiamo!.
  4. ^ Senator Raffaele Fantetti.
  5. ^ Senator Alessandrina Lonardo.

Leadership

References

  1. ^ "Toti: alleati con Lega e FdI, qui vogliamo restare - Politica". Agenzia ANSA. August 1, 2019.
  2. ^ Canessa, Fabio (August 7, 2019). "Centrodestra, Toti registra ufficialmente il nuovo movimento 'Cambiamo'". Telenord.it.
  3. ^ "Toti presenta simbolo di 'Cambiamo' - Ultima Ora". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 16 August 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2019.
  4. ^ "Nasce 'Coraggio Italia', nuovo progetto politico di Brugnaro e Toti". Adnkronos (in Italian). 26 May 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Politica, Renzi-Toti rompono gli indugi: Arriva "Italia al centro"".
  6. ^ "Si chiama 'Italia al centro' la nuova creatura centrista di Renzi e Toti".
  7. ^ "Toti presenta "Italia al centro", modello Csu: «Questo sistema bipolare è ormai superato»". 25 March 2022.
  8. ^ "Toti e il grande centro: Nasce la Federazione fra Coraggio Italia e Italia al centro". 24 March 2022.
  9. ^ "Brugnaro: «Il cuore si è fermato, stavo morendo. Mi sono svegliato il giorno dopo»". 14 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Renzi e Toti, al centro sono rimasti in pochi (Di F. Fantozzi)". 7 February 2022.
  11. ^ "Senato.it - Senato della Repubblica senato.it - Variazioni dei Gruppi parlamentari".
  12. ^ Italia al Centro – Statuto
  13. ^ ""Italia al Centro" di Toti: varato statuto, nascono i gruppi federati". www.primocanale.it (in Italian). Retrieved 4 June 2022.
  14. ^ "Prima l'Italia, malumori nel partito: Salvini e i nodi in Sicilia". Live Sicilia (in Italian). 7 May 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  15. ^ "Liti sui posti e sulla linea, gli smottamenti della Lega (Tre addii in un mese)". 19 May 2022.
  16. ^ "E Brugnaro e Toti sanciscono il divorzio. Non c'è pace nel centro, ingolfato e litigioso (Di F. Olivo)". 23 June 2022.
  17. ^ "Coraggio Italia si scioglie: è l'effetto domino della scissione 5S. Per Toti e Brugnaro obiettivo nuovo Centro con di Maio". 23 June 2022.
  18. ^ "Centro, parte il cantiere di Toti. I paletti di Calenda e la 'fatwa' del Cav". 9 July 2022.
  19. ^ "Gelmini: "Ci sono fibrillazioni ma il governo va avanti". E Toti a Berlusconi: "Il Centro è di tutti o diventa un centrino"". 9 July 2022.
  20. ^ "Italia al Centro, Toti lancia il suo nuovo partito e cerca alleati: "Potenziale fino al 18%". Ma Calenda lo avverte: "Il fritto misto non serve"". 9 July 2022.