Italian Liberal Party (1997)

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Italian Liberal Party
Partito Liberale Italiano
Secretariat

PresidentStefano De Luca
Honorary PresidentCarlo Scognamiglio
Founded4 July 1997 (1997-07-04)
Split fromUnion of the Centre
HeadquartersVia Romagna 26, 00187 Rome
NewspaperRivoluzione liberale
Youth wingItalian Liberal Youth
IdeologyLiberalism
Political positionCentre
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
0 / 315
European Parliament
0 / 73
Regional Councils
0 / 897
Website
www.partitoliberale.it Edit this at Wikidata

The Italian Liberal Party (Italian: Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI) is a minor liberal political party in Italy, which considers itself to be the successor of the original Italian Liberal Party that existed from 1922 to 1994.

History[]

Foundation and early years[]

The Liberal Party (Partito Liberale) was founded in 1997 by former members of the Italian Liberal Party (PLI) and, mostly, of the Union of the Centre (UdC), as well as some former Republicans. Most of its leading figures were also members of Forza Italia (FI): Stefano De Luca, Carlo Scognamiglio, Egidio Sterpa, , and .[1][2] Scognamiglio was a former President of the Senate, while de Luca, Caccavale and Caligaris were MEPs.

In December 2004 the party was merged with other liberal groups and, as result, its name was changed to Italian Liberal Party, along with the claim of being the successor of the historical PLI, disbanded in 1994. At that point the party was completely enfranchised from FI and the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition.

Enlargement of the party[]

In June 2007, during its congress, the PLI reaffirmed its autonomy and de Luca was unanimously re-elected secretary; additionally, some leading former Liberals joined (or re-joined) the party: Carlo Scognamiglio (PLD), (UDC) and (AN). Since that time PLI is for the first time represented in a Regional Council by , regional deputy of Lazio, previously member of Italy of Values. For the 2008 general election Liberals tried to form an electoral pact with the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats,[3] but finally chose to run as a stand-alone list.[4]

In February 2009 the PLI held another congress. , supported by and a group of Liberal Reformers (including Marco Taradash, , and ) and other newcomers, presented his candidacy for party secretary in opposition to de Luca, who was supported by the old guard and by Paolo Guzzanti, a dissenting member of Forza Italia and former Socialist.[5] De Luca was re-elected party secretary with the support of 73% of the delegates, Guzzanti was appointed deputy secretary and Scognamiglio president.[6][7] Diaconale left the party and would later revive the Italian Liberal Right, along with (see below).

In December 2010 Guzzanti left the party over personal problems with de Luca and became briefly engaged with the New Pole for Italy (NPI).[8][9][10] In March 2011 the party was joined by two former secretaries of the late PLI, Alfredo Biondi and Renato Altissimo, and by a senator coming from The People of Freedom (PdL), , who was soon appointed deputy secretary.[11] Through Musso the party re-joined the NPI.

Back in Parliament[]

In November 2011 five disgruntled deputies of the PdL (, Giustina Destro, Fabio Gava, , who later left, and ) joined the party through the Liberals for Italy.[12] Another former member of the PdL, , joined the LpI–PLI group in April 2012.[13]

In March 2012, in the run-up of a congress, Scognamiglio, Biondi and Altissimo, proposed Musso as new secretary and de Luca as president.[14] The proposal was not well received by the party's old guard and, not only de Luca was barely re-elected secretary, but Scognamiglio was replaced as president by .[15][16] In the May 2012 municipal election of Genoa, Musso garnered 15.0% of the vote in the first round, as joint NPI candidate, and 40.3% in the run-off, losing to Marco Doria.[17]

In June 2013 Guzzanti re-joined the PLI[18] and was soon elected at the head of the party's national council.[19]

More splits and alliances[]

In February 2014 several disillusioned members or former members of the party, including Altissimo, Biondi, Musso and Scognamiglio, plus Edoardo Croci, Giuliano Urbani and , launched The Liberals as an alternative to the PLI,[20] which happened to be quite short-lived.

In April 2014 the PLI joined the European Choice list for the European Parliament election.[21] This decision, strongly supported by de Luca, prompted Guzzanti to leave the party[22] and stand as candidate for Forza Italia,[23][24] and eventually de Luca to step down as secretary.[25][26]

The following October, during a congress, the party elected a new leadership, notably including as secretary, de Luca president and , a former deputy of the PdL and Future and Freedom (FLI), coordinator.[27][28] The day after, , long-time president and honorary president of the party, died.[29] Subsequently, in November, , a dissident deputy of the Five Star Movement, joined the PLI, marking its return to Parliament.[30][31][32] A few months later, in March 2015, Catalano was expelled from the party for having joined the parliamentary group of Civic Choice.[33][34]

From centre to centre-right[]

In the 2016 municipal election the PLI, which supported Giorgia Meloni (Brothers of Italy, FdI) for mayor, obtained 0.9% of the vote.[35]

In December 2016 Cinzia Bonfrisco (ex-PSI/FI/PdL/FI/CoR) joined the PLI, giving it representation in the Senate.[36][37]

In May 2017 the party's congress re-elected Morandi and de Luca as secretary and president, respectively. Additionally, Scognamiglio and Basini were appointed honorary presidents[38] (the former's election marked the return into the party of most of The Liberals, while the latter's return of the "Liberal Right" or "National-Liberal" faction). Also in May, Bonfrisco was a founding member, along with Identity and Action (IdeA), of the Federation of Freedom (FdL) group.[39]

In the run-up of the 2018 general election the PLI officially joined the centre-right coalition, through an electoral agreement with the League.[40][41][42] The League obtained 17.4% of the vote and two Liberals were elected in its slates: Basini to the Chamber and Bonfrisco to the Senate.[43] As of 2019 the PLI's alignment with the League was no longer fully clear, but Basini continued to sit in that party's group in the Chamber and Bonfrisco was elected to the European Parliament for the League in the 2019 European Parliament election.[44] The PLI's national congress was supposed to be held in late 2019,[45] but it was later postponed.

In March 2020 the national congress was finally held. Secretary Morandi left the party a few days before the assembly was convened in Rome.[46] After the congress, the new leadership still included De Luca as president and Scognamiglio as honorary president, while those members who had been more involved in the alliance with the League, notably including the other incumbent honorary president and senator Basini, were no longer mentioned in the party's website. Notably, secretary Morandi was replaced by a three-person secretariat, composed of , , and .[47] Basini and Bonfrisco had joined directly to the League.

Leadership[]

  • Secretary: Stefano De Luca (1997–2014), (2014–2020), / / (2020–present)
    • Deputy Secretary: (1997–2004), (2000–2004), (2000–2004), (2007–2008), Paolo Guzzanti (2009–2010), (2011–2012), (2016)
    • Coordinator: (2008–2009), (2009–2010), (2010–2012), (2013–2014), (2014–2015)
    • Treasurer: (2007–2008), (2010–2012), (2012–2014), (2014–2020)
  • President: Egidio Sterpa (1997–2000), (2000–2009), Carlo Scognamiglio (2009–2012), (2012–2014), Stefano De Luca (2014–present)
  • President of the National Council: (2004–2008), Carlo Scognamiglio (2008–2009), (2009–2012), (2012–2013), Paolo Guzzanti (2013–2014), (2014–2018), (2018–2020), (2020)
  • Honorary President/s: Gianfranco Ciaurro (1997–2000), (2009–2014), (2017–2020), Carlo Scognamiglio (2017–present)

References[]

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