Pentapartito

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The term Pentapartito (German: Fünferpartei ) stands for the government coalition in Italy between 1980 and 1992. It consisted of the five parties Democrazia Cristiana (DC), Partito Socialista Italiano (PSI), Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano (PSDI), Partito Repubblicano Italiano ( PRI) and Partito Liberale Italiano (PLI).

The coalition formed the government in the controversial period of the First Republic of Italy, the corruption scandal fell, which the judicial inquiry Mani pulite the prosecutor of Milan to be moved. Practically all the chairmen of the Pentapartito were involved: Giulio Andreotti , Arnaldo Forlani , Ciriaco De Mita and Paolo Cirino Pomicino from the DC, Bettino Craxi from the PSI, Renato Altissimo and Francesco De Lorenzo from the PLI, Giorgio La Malfa from the PRI and many Further.

This historical section of Italian democracy is commonly referred to as Tangentopoli , which ended with the dissolution of the first government under Giuliano Amato . As a result, the chairman of the Banca d'Italia Carlo Azeglio Ciampi was entrusted with the formation of a government by the President of the Republic, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro . The main concern of the government should be the fight against the severe economic crisis and the reform of the electoral law . After the introduction of majority voting for both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, new parliamentary elections were held in Italy in 1994. During this, the Democrazia Cristiana, now renamed Partito Popolare Italiano (PPI), crashed massively. The other four parties disappeared completely into political insignificance, the PLI had even disbanded before the election. This ended the system of the so-called First Republic. Instead, new parties formed, such as Forza Italia , which attracted many politicians from the former Pentapartito.