Alliance of the Centre (Italy)

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Alliance of the Centre (Italian: Alleanza di Centro, AdC), whose full name is Alliance of the Centre for the Territories (Italian: Alleanza di Centro per i Territori), was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.

It was founded in November 2008 as Alliance of the Centre for Freedom (Italian: Alleanza di Centro per la Libertà) by splinters from the Union of the Centre (UdC) who wanted to return to an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition and support his fourth government.[1] Its leader is Francesco Pionati, deputy and formerly spokesman of the UdC.[1][2]

At the 2009 European Parliament election, AdC was part of The Autonomy,[3][4] an electoral coalition including The Right, the Movement for the Autonomies and the Pensioners' Party, which gained 2.2% of the vote and no MEPs.[5] In the 2010 general regional elections AdC ran its lists in a handful of regions, electing only one regional councillor in Pionati's homeregion, Campania (2.35%).[6] In the 2011 Molise regional election the party got the 6.73% of the vote and 2 seats in the Regional Council.[7]

On 20 January 2011, AdC was a founding component of Responsible Initiative (later renamed People and Territory), a centre-right group in the Italian Chamber of Deputies during the 16th Legislature.[8] In October 2012, the balance of accounts of the People of Freedom (PdL) showed that the Alliance of the Centre had received €80,000 of financial support from PdL.[9]

The party was renamed Alliance of the Centre for the Territories in July 2019.[10]

Pionati would later join Maurizio Lupi’s Us with Italy party, becoming a member of the party’s executive committee and steering committee.[11][12]

Leadership

  • Secretary: Francesco Pionati

References

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  2. 2.".: Francesco Pionati". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
  3. 3."Nasce il Polo dell'Autonomia". La-Destra.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-10. Retrieved 2009-04-22.
  4. 4."EUROPEE: INSIEME MPA, ALLEANZA DI CENTRO, LA DESTRA, PENSIONATI". Iris Press. 2009-04-20. Archived from the original on 2011-10-06. Retrieved 2009-04-22.
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  6. 6."Regionali 28/03/2010 - Area ITALIA - Regione CAMPANIA". Eligendo (in Italian).
  7. 7."Regionali 16/10/2011 - Area ITALIA - Regione MOLISE". Eligendo (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  8. 8."Composizione del gruppo POPOLO E TERRITORIO". Camera.it - XVI Legislatura. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  9. 9.Cuzzocrea, Annalisa (2012-10-31). "Spuntano i fondi ai transfughi così il partito ha finanziato Scilipoti". la Repubblica (in Italian).
  10. 10."Torna Alleanza di Centro, Pionati guarda alle elezioni regionali". Il Mattino (in Italian). 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  11. 11."Ufficio di Presidenza". Retrieved 2026-07-15.
  12. 12."Comitato Direttivo". Retrieved 2026-07-15.