More Europe
More Europe Più Europa | |
|---|---|
| File:More Europe logo.png | |
| Leader | Emma Bonino |
| Founded | 23 November 2017 |
| Ideology | Liberalism[1] Progressivism[2] Social liberalism Economic liberalism[3] Pro-Europeanism European federalism |
| National affiliation | Centre-left coalition (to be confirmed) |
| Colours | Gold |
| Chamber of Deputies | 6 / 630 |
| Senate | 1 / 315 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
| Website | |
| www.piueuropa.eu | |
More Europe (Italian: Più Europa or +Europa, +E) is a liberal and pro-Europeanist coalition of political parties in Italy,[4] within the centre-left coalition. The list is led by Emma Bonino, leader of the Italian Radicals and former minister.
History
More Europe was launched in November 2017, seeking to participate in the 2018 general election within the centre-left coalition centred on the Democratic Party (PD).[5] The founding members were two liberal and distinctively pro-Europeanist parties: the Italian Radicals (RI), whose leading members included Emma Bonino (a former minister of International Commerce and Foreign Affairs), Riccardo Magi and Marco Cappato, and Forza Europa (FE), led by Benedetto Della Vedova, a former Radical elected in 2013 with Future and Freedom (FLI) and later transitated through Civic Choice (SC). The RI and FE were joined by individual members of the Civics and Innovators (CI) sub-group in the Chamber of Deputies, formed by former SC members (two CI deputies, Andrea Mazziotti and Stefano Dambruoso, were already involved with FE).
Angelo Bonelli, coordinator of the Federation of the Greens, had already proposed to the Radicals the possibility of forming a joint list together with Progressive Camp of Giuliano Pisapia called "Ecology, Europe, Rights".[6] However, Pisapia had already announced the withdrawal of the candidacy of his movement (being its goal of uniting all centre-left and progressive political forces into a single coalition for the 2018 general election) as an admission of failure,[7]) and +E preferred not to take the coalition (already certain for the Greens) with the Democratic Party for granted.[8]
In early January 2018 Bonino and Della Vedova announced that +E would run as a stand-alone list, due to technical reasons associated with the new electoral laws.[9] While the PD leadership was trying to find a solution to those problems,[10] on 4 January, Bruno Tabacci, leader of the centrist, mostly Christian-democratic and also pro-Europeanist Democratic Centre (CD), announced that his party would join the coalition +E, in alliance with the PD, in order to overcome those issues.[11][12][13]
Composition
Election results
Italian Parliament
| Chamber of Deputies | ||||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leaders | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | TBD | TBD | 0 / 630
|
Emma Bonino | ||
| Senate of the Republic | |||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– | Leaders |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | TBD | TBD | 0 / 315
|
Emma Bonino | |
References
- ^ https://www.ilfoglio.it/politica/2017/11/22/news/forza-europa-piace-ai-francesi-e-si-fa-lista-con-i-radicali-nasce-+-europa-164796/
- ^ http://formiche.net/2017/11/02/programma-radicali-forza-europa/
- ^ http://formiche.net/2017/11/02/programma-radicali-forza-eur
- ^ http://www.lastampa.it/2017/11/23/italia/politica/i-radicali-alle-elezioni-da-soli-la-nuova-lista-si-chiamer-europa-9vVPiGh2xoYXqExCOow4cP/pagina.html
- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2017/11/13/pd-radicali-incontro-al-nazareno-in-vista-delle-elezioni_a_23275409
- ^ http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2017/11/23/news/radicali_italiani_lista_europeista-181892110/
- ^ https://www.facebook.com/giulianopisapia1/posts/1480981635272503
- ^ http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2017/11/23/news/radicali_italiani_lista_europeista-181892110/
- ^ http://www.corriere.it/politica/18_gennaio_01/elezioni-2018-bonino-la-lista-europa-costretta-correre-sola-elezioni-03d7e7d8-ef22-11e7-97e1-31c2bf5f7cef.shtml
- ^ http://ildubbio.news/ildubbio/2018/01/03/elezioni-renzi-speriamo-di-risolvere-problemi-con-piu-europa
- ^ http://www.corriere.it/politica/18_gennaio_04/tabacci-salva-lista-bonino-il-4-marzo-europa-ci-sara-20c7f420-f15f-11e7-b33d-56f05ccceb4d.shtml
- ^ http://www.lastampa.it/2018/01/04/italia/politica/elezioni-bonino-grazie-tabacci-europa-sar-lunica-lista-pienamente-europeista-GJWpji62WisnrGz7MmSEMP/pagina.html
- ^ http://www.repubblica.it/politica/2018/01/04/news/rosatellum_bonino_imbroglio_battaglia_giurisdizionale_elezioni_2018_legge_elettorale-185796021