Cristiani Democratici Uniti
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| Party executive | Rocco Buttiglione (Chairman) |
| founding | July 23, 1995 (emerged from: Partito Popolare Italiano ) |
| resolution | December 6, 2002 (published in: Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e di Centro ) |
| coalition |
Polo per le Libertà (1996), Casa delle Libertà (2001) |
| ideology | Christian Democracy |
| European party | European People's Party |
| EP Group | EPP-ED |
| MPs |
11/630 |
| Senators |
10/315 |
| MEPs |
2/87 |
| Party newspaper | La Discussione |
The Cristiani Democratici Uniti (CDU) was an Italian center-right political party that split off in 1995 from the Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI), the successor to the Democrazia Cristiana . At that time - after the resignation of the Berlusconi I government - a majority of the PPI voted in favor of the center-left alliance, which sparked its split.
The founding fathers of the CDU were Rocco Buttiglione (1994–95 General Secretary of the PPI), Roberto Formigoni (regional president of Lombardy elected in April 1995 with the votes of the center-right ) and Gianfranco Rotondi . The Uniti joined the center-right party alliance under Silvio Berlusconi, which took over the government of Italy a few years later (2001) after the defeat of the center-left alliance.
Formigoni, who as the regional president of Lombardy was the highest-ranking official with a CDU party membership, joined Forza Italia in 1998 .
For the parliamentary elections in 1996 and 2001, the CDU united with the Centro Cristiano Democratico (CCD), which had split off from the Democrazia Cristiana in 1994, to form a joint electoral list called Biancofiore . In December 2002 they even merged, with the small Democrazia Europea as the third partner, to form the new party Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e di Centro (UDC).
Party leadership of the CDU
- Secretary General: Rocco Buttiglione (1995–2002)
- President: Roberto Formigoni (1995–1998), Mario Tassone (1998–2002)