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Alliance of the Centre (Italy)

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Alliance of the Centre
Alleanza di Centro
Secretary Francesco Pionati
Deputy Secretary Mario Pietracupa
Founded 4 December 2008
Dissolved 2022
Split from Union of the Centre
Merged into Us with Italy
Headquarters Via dei Prefetti, 46 Rome
Ideology Christian democracy
Political position Centre to centre-right[1][2]
National affiliation Coalition:
Centre-right coalition (2008–present)
Electoral list:
The Autonomy (2009)
Website
www.alleanzadicentro.it
Politics of Italy
Political parties
Elections

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.[3] Its leader is Francesco Pionati, deputy and formerly spokesman of the UdC.[3][4]

At the 2009 European Parliament election, AdC was part of The Autonomy,[5][6] 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.[7] 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%).[8] In the 2011 Molise regional election the party got the 6.73% of the vote and 2 seats in the Regional Council.[9]

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.[10] 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.[11]

The party was renamed Alliance of the Centre for the Territories in July 2019.[12]

Pionati would later join Maurizio Lupi’s Us with Italy party, becoming a member of the party’s executive committee and steering committee.[13][14]

Leadership

References

  1. Back to citation "Pionati sigla l'intesa con Caldoro: "Il centrodestra vincerà"". Ottopagine.it Napoli. 2019-12-01.
  2. Back to citation "Pionati: Contestare il metodo, una scusa per attaccare Berlusconi". il Quotidiano del Sud. 2019-12-08.
  3. Back to citation occurrence 3.0 Back to citation occurrence 3.1 "Pionati lascia l'Udc: "Torno con Silvio"". Corriere della Sera. 2008-11-27.
  4. Back to citation ".: Francesco Pionati". Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2008-11-27.
  5. Back to citation "Nasce il Polo dell'Autonomia". La-Destra.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-10. Retrieved 2009-04-22.
  6. Back to citation "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.
  7. Back to citation Donatella M. Viola (2014). "Italy". In Donatella M. Viola (ed.). Routledge Handbook of European Elections. Routledge. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-317-50363-7.
  8. Back to citation "Regionali 28/03/2010 - Area ITALIA - Regione CAMPANIA". Eligendo (in Italian).
  9. Back to citation "Regionali 16/10/2011 - Area ITALIA - Regione MOLISE". Eligendo (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  10. Back to citation "Composizione del gruppo POPOLO E TERRITORIO". Camera.it - XVI Legislatura. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  11. Back to citation Cuzzocrea, Annalisa (2012-10-31). "Spuntano i fondi ai transfughi così il partito ha finanziato Scilipoti". la Repubblica (in Italian).
  12. Back to citation "Torna Alleanza di Centro, Pionati guarda alle elezioni regionali". Il Mattino (in Italian). 2019-07-27. Retrieved 2021-02-20.
  13. Back to citation "Ufficio di Presidenza". Retrieved 2026-07-15.
  14. Back to citation "Comitato Direttivo". Retrieved 2026-07-15.
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