For Italy Per l'Italia | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 12 December 2013 |
| Dissolved | 11 January 2015 |
| Ideology | Christian democracy Christian left Centrism |
| Political position | Centre |
For Italy (Italian:Per l'Italia, PI) was the name of twocentrist and mainlyChristian-democratic parliamentary groups active in each house of theItalian Parliament: theChamber of Deputies and theSenate.
The groups were launched on 12 December 2013, following a split fromCivic Choice (SC), whose parliamentary groups included also theUnion of the Centre (UdC). The Christian-democratic faction of SC, led byMario Mauro,Lorenzo Dellai,Andrea Olivero andLucio Romano, left, along with the UdC, to form the For Italy groups.[1][2][3] In July 2014 Mauro's party, thePopulars for Italy (PpI), suffered the split of its left-wing, which formedSolidary Democracy (Demo.S), while remaining part of the joint parliamentary groups.[4][5][6] In fact, both Dellai and Romano, chairmen of the groups, joined the new party.
The groups' composition was quite unstable as they experienced several splits. In October 2014 two deputies, who were once PpI members, left For Italy in order to join theDemocratic Party (PD).[7] In November, three deputies belonging toDemocratic Centre (CD), joined the group in the Chamber, after having left the Mixed Group;[2] the group was thus renamed "For Italy–Democratic Centre". Also in November the three PpI senators left For Italy in order to joinGreat Autonomies and Freedom,[8] a centre-right miscellaneous group. In December the three senators of Demo.S, including the group's leader Romano, left in order to joinFor the Autonomies, a miscellaneous autonomist/centre-left group,[9] while the four remaining senators of For Italy (including the two affiliated to the UdC) and the six deputies of the UdC left in order to joinPopular Area, two newly formed groups led by theNew Centre-Right.[10] After these movements, the For Italy group in Chamber was left with 13 deputies (8 Demo.S, 3 CD and 2 PpI) and the one in the Senate was effectively disbanded. In August 2015Carmelo Lo Monte left CD and PI in the Chamber, while the following SeptemberMaurizio Baradello joined Demo.S and PI. In January 2015 the group changed its name toSolidary Democracy – Democratic Centre.[2]