Unione di Centro (historical)
The Union of the Center (UDC, German Union of the Center ) was a liberal Minor party of the center-right in Italy that existed from 1993 to 1998.
history
The UdC was founded on May 27, 1993 by Raffaele Costa and Alfredo Biondi together with other prominent members of the Partito Liberale Italiano (PLI). Costa had recently been elected PLI chairman. They distanced themselves from the previous PLI chairman Renato Altissimo , who was involved in the Tangentopoli corruption scandal , and at the same time wanted to open the party to other forces in the center-right spectrum.
In the parliamentary elections in 1994 , the UdC was part of the center-right electoral alliances led by Silvio Berlusconi , Polo delle Libertà (in northern Italy) and Polo del Buon Governo (in the south), which won it four seats in the Camera dei deputati and five in the Senate . The parliamentarians of the UdC sat in the Forza Italia group. Costa became Minister of Health and Biondi Minister of Justice in the Berlusconi I cabinet . In the 1996 election, UdC candidates participated on Forza Italia lists.
The main members of the UdC, including Costa and Biondi, joined Berlusconi's Forza Italia party in 1998. Subsequently, the UdC transformed from a party to a political association called Unione Liberale di Centro . Biondi and Costa founded the Liberalismo popolare - Casa del Cittadino movement within Forza Italia in 2002/2003 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Mark Donovan: The fate of the secular center. The Liberals, Republicans and Social Democrats. In: Stephen Gundle, Simon Parker: The New Italian Republic. From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi. Routledge, London / New York 1996, pp. 99-109, at pp. 106-107.
- ^ Ettore Colombo: Roma. Nasce dentro la Cdl "Liberalismo popolare". In: Vita , November 26, 2002.
- ↑ Liberismo popolare: Biondi, ritorno a collegialità. ADNkronos, July 19, 2003.