Italia dei Valori
| Italia dei Valori | |
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| Party executive | Ignazio Messina (Segretario) |
| founding | March 21, 1998 |
| European party | ALDE |
| MPs |
1/630 |
| Senators |
0/315 |
| MEPs |
0/76 |
| Headquarters |
 Rome , Via Santa Maria in Via 12 |
| Party newspaper | Orizzonti Nuovi |
| Website | www.italiadeivalori.it |
Italia dei Valori ( German Italy of Values , previously: Italia dei Valori - Lista Di Pietro ) is an Italian party of the political center , whose main theme is the fight against corruption. Until 2017 it was a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), although strictly speaking it is not a liberal party.
The founder and long-time chairman of the party was the Milanese public prosecutor Antonio Di Pietro , who became known for the manipulite investigations into corruption cases. Since June 2013 is Ignazio Messina Chairman.
history
Foundation and first years (1998-2005)
The public prosecutor Di Pietro became known to the public in the early 1990s when he was investigating politicians and entrepreneurs into the corruption affair “ Mani pulite ” or “ Tangentopoli ”. In 1996 he was a non-party minister for public works in the Prodi I cabinet . In March 1998 he founded his own party - Italia dei Valori - whose main themes were the fight against corruption and for “morality”. IdV initially supported the center-left alliance L'Ulivo and in February 1999 was one of the founders of Prodi's I Democratici party , and in the European elections in June of the same year he was even their top candidate. However, Di Pietro rejected the election of Giuliano Amato , whom he held as a representative of the corrupt “old” politics, as prime minister and in June 2000 left not only the Democratici, but also the L'Ulivo alliance in the dispute. Then he revived IdV as an independent party in September 2000.
In 2001, IdV took part in the parliamentary elections for the first time - regardless of the two large blocks L'Ulivo (center-left) or Casa delle Libertà (center-right) - but received no seat in the camera with 3.9% of the vote dei deputati and only one in the Senate . For the 2004 European elections , IdV formed an alliance with the former chairman of the left-wing democrats, Achille Occhetto , and joined under the list name Società Civile - Di Pietro - Occhetto , with which she also hoped for support from the Girotondi protest movement . The list received 2.1% of the vote and entered the European Parliament with two members . They initially joined the liberal ALDE group , but in May 2006 both Occhetto, who had stepped up to replace Di Pietro, and Giulietto Chiesa joined the social democratic group .
Part of the center-left camp (2005-11)
On the occasion of the regional elections in April 2005, IdV again approached the center-left camp and joined the L'Unione alliance . The former mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando , known for his fight against the Mafia , who founded his own party La Rete in the 1990s , joined the IdV in 2005.
IdV also took part in the Italian parliamentary elections in 2006 as part of the L'Ulivo coalition. This initially held an open primary election to find a top candidate, in which Antonio Di Pietro received 3.3% of the vote, while Romano Prodi prevailed with a large majority. In the actual parliamentary election the party received only a nationwide share of the vote of 2.3%, but thanks to the list connection with the other center-left parties, it was represented in the House of Representatives with 16 of the 630 and in the Senate with 4 of the 315 seats. The party then took part in the center-left Prodi II government and provided Di Pietro as the infrastructure minister .
In the parliamentary elections in 2008 , the party entered into a list connection with the Partito Democratico and achieved the following results: 4.4% in the elections to the House of Representatives (29 seats) and 4.3% in the Senate elections (14 seats), what corresponds to almost a doubling of the 2006 results. In the 2009 European elections , the party reached an all-time high of 8% (including the candidacy of many “independent” candidates without party membership such as the anti-corruption prosecutor Luigi de Magistris or the philosopher Gianni Vattimo ) and thus made up 7 of the 72 Italian MEPs . These in turn sat in the liberal ALDE parliamentary group.
Loss of importance (since 2012)
The Monti transitional cabinet that came into office after Berlusconi's resignation in November 2011 was not supported by the Italia dei Valori, which, on the contrary, was one of the latter's most determined critics. The party has also sharpened its social profile and terminated its alliance with the Partito Democratico, which played a key role in the formation of the Monti government. On the occasion of the parliamentary elections in February 2013 , Italia dei Valori ran on the left list Rivoluzione Civile ("Citizens' Revolution ") for the prosecutor Antonio Ingroia , which illustrates the turn to the political left . However, with 2.3% of the votes, the list clearly missed its entry into parliament, which means that former parliamentarians from Italia dei Valori also resigned from their mandates. The European elections the following year also brought the party a setback. She fell to 0.7% of the vote under the leadership of new Chair Messina and lost all of her seats in the European Parliament.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Daniele Albertazzi: Resisting the Tide. Cultures of Opposition Under Berlusconi (2001-06). Continuum, New York / London 2009, p. Xvi.
- ↑ Luciano Bardi, Richard S. Katz, Peter Mair: Towards a European Politics. In: Parties and Party Systems. Structure and Context. UBC Press, Vancouver 2015, pp. 127–147, at p. 136.