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Europeanists Europeisti | |
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| President | Raffaele Fantetti |
| Founded | 27 January 2021 |
| Headquarters | Via del Monte delle Capre 44/A, Rome |
| Ideology | Liberalism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre |
| National affiliation | Italy in the Centre (2021–2022) Us of the Centre (since 2022) |
| Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 400 |
| Senate | 0 / 200 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
| Website | |
| europeisti | |
Europeanists (Italian:Europeisti) is apolitical party in Italy. Amid agovernment crisis triggered afterMatteo Renzi announced that he would revokeItalia Viva's support to thegovernment ofGiuseppe Conte,[1] Europeanists formed on 27 January 2021 as a component of a jointparliamentary group in theItalian Senate (together withMAIE andDemocratic Centre), with the aim to support Conte's cabinet.[2]
On 18 January the government won the vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies with 321 votes in favour, 259 against and 27 abstentions.[3][4] On the following day, the government won a vote of confidence in the Senate with 156 votes in favor, 140 against and 16 abstentions;[5][6] however, the cabinet failed to reach theabsolute majority in the house.[7] Among those who voted in support of Conte in the Senate, there were members of the future Europeanists group, like the then-senators ofForza Italia (FI),Andrea Causin andMariarosaria Rossi, as well as former members of theFive Star Movement (M5S), likeGregorio de Falco (who joined theDemocratic Centre,[8] a party led byBruno Tabacci) and Maurizio Buccarella, and senators from theAssociative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE), likeRicardo Antonio Merlo andRaffaele Fantetti.[9]
On 26 January, Conte resigned as Prime Minister.[10][11][12] On the following day, the Europeanists group was formed in the Italian Senate (together with MAIE and Democratic Centre) in support of Conte.[13] The senator of theDemocratic Party Tatjana Rojc joined Europeanists in order to allow the formation of the group, while remaining a member of the PD.[14] Instead, Sandra Lonardo, a former senator of FI and wife ofClemente Mastella, who was among the main proponents of the parliamentary group, decided not to join, in contrast with the other members about the group's name (which did not include Lonardo's and Mastella's party name,Us Campanians).[15] It was not possible to create a similar parliamentary group in theChamber of Deputies, because only three deputies joined, so Europeanists had to form a sub-group within theMixed Group, along with MAIE andPSI.[16]
On 28 January, the group took part in the consultations with PresidentSergio Mattarella for the formation of a new cabinet, stressing its support to Conte.[17] On the same day, Causin hinted the transformation of the group into apolitical party.[18]
In late March, two senators,Tatjana Rojc andMariarosaria Rossi, announced that they would soon leave the group.[19] Consequently, on 29 March the group was dissolved due to lack of the minimum number of senators needed to form a parliamentary group (eight instead of ten).[20]
Despite the dissolution of the group in each branch of the Parliament, the senators Fantetti and Rossi formed a parliamentary sub-group within the Senate'sMixed Group along with IDeA andCambiamo!; moreover, Fantetti himself continued to preside over the "Europeanists" association, federated with Cambiamo!.[21] On 28 October, the "IDeA – Cambiamo!" sub-group changed its name into "IDeA-Cambiamo-Europeanists". Since 2022 Europeanists has been part of the National Register of political parties.[22]