Direzione Italia
| Direzione Italia | |
| Party executive | Raffaele Fitto (Leader) |
| founding | June 3, 2015 (CR; split off from: Forza Italia ) January 28, 2017 (TUE) |
| resolution | October 29, 2019 (published in: Fratelli d'Italia ) |
| ideology | conservative |
| European party | European Conservatives and Reformists Party (EKR) |
| Headquarters |
 Manfredonia , Via Torre dell'Astrologo 44
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| Website | www.direzione-italia.it |
Direzione Italia (DI; German: "Towards Italy") was a liberal-conservative small party in Italy . It emerged in 2017 from the predecessor party Conservatori e Riformisti (CR or CoR; "Conservatives and Reformers"), which was founded in 2015 . It was led by Raffaele Fitto , the former president of the Apulia region . On October 29, 2019, the party was absorbed into the Fratelli d'Italia .
history
Conservatori e Riformisti
The Conservatori e Riformisti (CR) party was founded on July 3, 2015. It was from a split from the Forza Italia party . The chairman was the European parliamentarian Raffaele Fitto . His deputy was Daniele Capezzone . In January 2016, the party was represented with ten senators in the Senato della Repubblica and with eleven members in the Camera dei deputati . The name of the party was derived from the European Parliamentary Group European Conservatives and Reformers , which also included the two European Parliamentarians of the CR. The CR symbol - a blue lion - was also based on the EKR logo. The party's avowed role model was the British Conservatives under David Cameron . The CR joined the European party Alliance of Conservatives and Reformers in Europe (AEKR) on November 13, 2015 .
Foundation of DI
Direzione Italia was founded in January 2017. It unites the CR and, among others, the Partito Liberale Italiano , the Autonomia Responsabile and the Sardinian Riformatori Sardi . Direzione Italia took over the membership of the Conservatori e Riformisti in the AEKR at European level.
For the 2018 parliamentary elections in Italy , DI participated in the Noi con l'Italia (“We with Italy”) alliance , which in turn was part of the center-right coalition with Forza Italia , Lega and Fratelli d'Italia , and 1.3% of the Votes received. Only thanks to the coalition with the larger center-right parties Noi con l'Italia got four direct seats (one for DI) in the House of Representatives and four Senate seats (none for DI).
Alliance with FdI
In December 2018, Direzione Italia and the right-wing conservative party Fratelli d'Italia (FdI) formed an alliance for the regional and European elections the following year. The FdI was also accepted into the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformers in Europe in February 2019. As a result, the two European parliamentarians from DI, Raffaele Fitto and Remo Sernagiotto, ran on the lists of the FdI in the European elections in May 2019 . While Fitto was re-elected, Sernagiotto missed re-entry.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Antonio Rapisarda: Cosa (non) vogliono i “leoni” Fitto e Capezzone. In: Formiche , July 16, 2015.