Segni Pact Patto Segni | |
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| Leader | Mariotto Segni |
| Founded | November 1993 |
| Dissolved | June 2003 |
| Preceded by | Christian Democracy |
| Succeeded by | Pact of Liberal Democrats |
| Newspaper | La Voce |
| Youth wing | Youth Project |
| Ideology | 1994-1999 Liberalism Christian Democracy 1999-2003 Liberal conservatism |
| Political position | 1994-1999 Centre[1] 1999-2003 Centre-right |
| National affiliation | Pact for Italy(1994) Pact of Democrats(1995) The Olive Tree(1996–99) PS–AN(1999) |
| European affiliation | EPP(1994–1999) AEN(1999–2004) |
| European Parliament group | EPP(1994–1999) UEN(1999–2004) |
| Colors | Yellow |
TheSegni Pact (Italian:Patto Segni), officially calledPact of National Rebirth (Patto di Rinascita Nazionale), was aChristian-democratic,[2]centrist[3] andliberalpolitical party in Italy. The party was founded and named afterMario Segni, a former member of theChristian Democrats who was a prominent promoter ofreferendums.[4]
The party was founded in 1993 by thePopulars for Reform, a split fromChristian Democracy (DC) in 1992[5] whose basic goal was electoral reform fromproportional representation toplurality voting, and splinters from theDemocratic Alliance (AD).
The party contested the1994 general election with DC successor theItalian People's Party (PPI) in thePact for Italy coalition,[6] with the Pact leaderMario Segni designated as "candidate forPrime Minister".[5] The Pact for Italy included in its listsRepublicans (Giorgio La Malfa,Alberto Zorzoli,Vittorio Dotti,Danilo Poggiolini andCarla Mazzuca Poggiolini),Liberals (Valerio Zanone,Pietro Milio andLuigi Compagna),Socialists (Giuliano Amato,Giulio Tremonti andClaudio Nicolini),Democratic Socialists (Enrico Ferri andGian Franco Schietroma), and several formerChristian Democrats (Mario Segni himself,Diego Masi,Gianni Rivera,Alberto Michelini,Enrico Indelli,Elisabetta Gardini,Michele Cossa,Livio Filippi,Vincenzo Viola, etc.).
The party obtained 4.7% of the vote and 13 deputies.[7] However soon after the election suffered several splits. The group around Michelini and Tremonti, for instance, founded theLiberal Democratic Foundation and decided to support theBerlusconi I Cabinet (Tremonti even became minister of Finances) and would later joinSilvio Berlusconi'sForza Italia (FI).
In the1995 regional elections, the Segni Pact formed an electoral list namedPact of Democrats, along with theItalian Socialists and AD.[5]
In 1995 the party and PPI joined thecentre-left coalition, with the Pact contesting the1996 general election as part ofItalian Renewal,[5] winning eight seats at theChamber of Deputies (Masi,Giuseppe Bicocchi,Elisa Pozza Tasca,Gianni Rivera,Antonino Mangiacavallo,Gianantonio Mazzocchin,Bonaventura Lamacchia,Paolo Manca) and one seat at theSenate of the Republic (Mazzuca Poggiolini).
In 1999, after having contributed to the foundation of theDemocratic Union for the Republic (UDR), the Pact attracted some formerRadicals from FI (Marco Taradash,Giuseppe Calderisi, etc.), but at the same time several members (Pozza Tasca, Poggiolini, Mazzuca Poggiolini, Filippi, Viola, etc.) left to joinThe Democrats. In the1999 European Parliament election the party formed ajoint list withNational Alliance which received 10.3% of the vote, and Segni was re-electedMEP.[8]
The Pact decided not to present lists for the2001 general election, but Cossa, member of theSardinian Reformers, the regional section of the party inSardinia, was elected deputy in a single-seat constituency ofCagliari for theHouse of Freedoms centre-right coalition.
In 2003 the party was finally transformed into thePact of Liberal Democrats (also known as the Segni-Scognamiglio Pact).
| Chamber of Deputies | |||||
| Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1,811,814 (7th) | 4.68 | 13 / 630 | – | |
| 1996 | intoRI | – | 8 / 630 |  5 | |
| 2001 | intoCdL | – | 1 / 630 | 4 | |
| Senate of the Republic | |||||
| Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | intoPpI | – | 0 / 315 | – | |
| 1996 | intoRI | – | 1 / 315 |  1 | |
| 2001 | intoCdL | – | 0 / 315 | 1 | |
| European Parliament | |||||
| Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 1,073,424 (7th) | 3.26 | 3 / 81 | – | |
| 1999 | 3,194,661 (3rd)[a] | 10.30 | 1 / 81 | 2 | |
