Popular Alliance Alleanza Popolare | |
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| Leader | Mario Venturini |
| President | Diego Ercolani |
| Founded | 10 January 1993 |
| Dissolved | February 2017 |
| Merged into | Future Republic |
| Headquarters | Strada VI Gualdaria, 14a |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| European affiliation | European Democratic Party |
| Italian counterpart | Lega Nord[1] |
| Colours | Green |
| Website | |
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ThePopular Alliance (Italian:Alleanza Popolare, AP) was aliberal-centrist political party inSan Marino.[2] The party formed a coalition with theUnion for the Republic for the2016 Sammarinese general election, and following their electoral success the two parties created a new party,Future Republic.
AP was born as an anti-establishment party in 1993, in parallel with the rise ofLega Nord in Italy, of which it has been long considered the Sanmarinese counterpart, but has since then become a stable political force in San Marino, participating in government coalitions with the centristSammarinese Christian Democratic Party (PDCS), as well as with the centre-leftParty of Socialists and Democrats (PSD) since 2002. Instead of theMonument to the Warrior of Legnano, AP has theStatua della Libertà as their symbol.
In the2006 Sammarinese general election the party won 12.1% of the vote and 7 out of 60 seats in theGrand and General Council, making it the third-largest party of the country. In 2008 after the breaking-up of the governing coalition, due to the rising clashes between AP andUnited Left, under the new electoral system, the party decided to join PDCS in the centristPact for San Marino coalition for the2008 general election, gaining 11.5% of votes and 7 seats out of the 35 of the coalition gained and 11.52% of the national vote.Assunta Meloni became one of the twoJoint Captains Regent of San Marino.
After the political crisis of 2011, AP confirmed its alliance with PDCS, creating the new allianceSan Marino Common Good, which won the2012 Sammarinese general election, even though AP itself lost three seats.
For the2016 Sammarinese general election, AP broke its alliance with PDCS and formed theFuture Republic electoral list withUnion for the Republic, which was a part of theAdesso.sm coalition. The list won eleven seats in the election's second round run-off.
On 24 February 2017, AP and UpR officially merged and formed Future Republic as a political party.
