Popolari UDEUR
| Popolari UDEUR | |
| Party executive | Clemente Mastella (Segretario) |
| founding | May 24, 1999 |
| resolution | 2013 |
| ideology | Christian Democratic |
| Headquarters |
 Rome , via Dandolo 24
|
| Website | www.popolariudeur.it |
The Unione Democratici per l'Europa ( UDEUR ) (Union (of) Democrats for Europe) was a Christian Democratic Italian party of the center. She has changed her name a few times, at times she was called Alleanza Popolare - UDEUR and most recently Popolari - UDEUR .
The UDEUR was founded in 1999 by former Christian Democrats around Clemente Mastella , who left the successor DC parties (Cristiani Democratici Uniti) that supported Silvio Berlusconi . Mastella has been chairman of the party since then. She ran for the first time in the same year in the European elections and won 1.6% of the vote. Initially, the Popolari aimed to provide an alternative to the two big blocs, but from 2000 they supported the center-left coalition of Massimo D'Alema . In the 2001 elections, the UDEUR took part in the Margherita list , but not in the founding of Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita 2002. In 2005, it decided to participate in the center-left coalition L'Unione . Mastella was able to take third place in the internal primaries for the leadership of the alliance, but Romano Prodi prevailed with an overwhelming majority. In the 2006 parliamentary elections, UDEUR achieved a nationwide share of 1.4% of the votes. After the election victory of the center-left coalition, Clemente Mastella became Minister of Justice, but resigned from this office on January 16, 2008 when the corruption scandal surrounding the UDEUR broke out.
The party had its seat in Rome and was represented after the parliamentary elections in 2006 in the House of Representatives with 14 of the 630 and in the Senate with 3, after the expulsion of Nuccio Cusumano from the UDEUR on January 24, 2008, with 2 of the 315 seats. It had its strongholds in the southern regions, especially in Campania , where it regularly achieved results of around 7%. Armando Veneto represented UDEUR in the European Parliament . Like his party, he belonged to the European People's Party . At the European level, UDEUR advocated a federal system, and its name underlined its pro-European stance.
Their daily newspaper was Il Campanile , the bell tower was also the party symbol.
In Italian, popolarismo describes an ideology comparable to Christian democracy. The name refers to the historical Partito Popolare Italiano , which existed from 1919 to 1926 and whose members were also known as Popolari .
When the Campanian public prosecutor announced on January 16, 2008 that it was investigating 23 local and regional politicians of the UDEUR for corruption , embezzlement , abuse of office and complicity with a criminal organization , the party was shaken to the top of the party. Among the 23 people arrested or placed under house arrest is Sandra Lonardo Mastella, president of the Campania regional parliament and wife of the then Justice Minister Clemente Mastella, who was also under investigation. Clemente Mastella thereupon submitted his resignation as Minister of Justice in a speech given in the Italian parliament on the same day and triggered an open power struggle and an institutional crisis with his allegations against the judiciary. At the same time, the UDEUR resigned from the incumbent Prodi government and gave it an ultimatum to support Mastella's attitude towards the judiciary. When it emerged that the governing parties would not support Mastella's attacks on the judiciary, the UDEUR withdrew its support from the Prodi government and plunged Italy into a government crisis.
In protest against this political decision, the Popolari Democratici split off from the UDEUR on February 13, 2008 .
After the party did not take part in the Italian parliamentary elections in 2008 , party leader Mastella announced an alliance with Berlusconi's center-right party Popolo della Libertà in February 2009 , under which Mastella would stand on the PdL list in the 2009 European elections . In return, the UDEUR wants to support candidates of the center-right alliance in the local and provincial elections taking place in Campania at the same time.
In the parliamentary elections in Italy in 2013 , the party ran as part of the electoral alliance Popolo della Libertà. In December 2013 she finally announced her dissolution and her merger in the Forza Italia party .
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- ^ Corriere della Sera, January 24, 2008 (ital.)
- ^ Corriere della Sera, January 16, 2008 (ital.)
- ↑ Tages-Anzeiger Online, January 17, 2008
- ^ Corriere della Sera, January 21, 2008 (ital.)
- ↑ http://www.ilmattino.it/articolo.php?id=46567&sez=NAPOLI