Identity and Action Identità e Azione | |
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| President | Gaetano Quagliariello |
| Founded | 25 November 2015 (2015-11-25) |
| Split from | New Centre-Right |
| Headquarters | Piazza Madama 9,Rome |
| Newspaper | l'Occidentale (online) |
| Think tank | Magna Carta Foundation |
| Membership(2017) | 2,000+[1] |
| Ideology | Liberal conservatism[2] Christian democracy[3] |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation | Italy in the Centre(2022–2023) Coraggio Italia(2021–2022) |
| European affiliation | European Christian Political Party |
| Colours | Blue Orange |
| Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 400 |
| Senate | 0 / 200 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
| Regional Councils | 0 / 896 |
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Identity and Action (Italian:Identità e Azione,IDeA) is aconservativepolitical party in Italy, whose membership stretches fromChristian democracy toliberal conservatism.
The party's leader isGaetano Quagliariello, a former minister for Institutional Reforms.
The party, whose complete name isIdentity and Action – People and Freedom (Identità e Azione – Popolo e Libertà), was formed on 25 November 2015 by a group of splinters from theNew Centre-Right (NCD), acentre-right party which was then part ofgovernment led byMatteo Renzi, leader of thecentre-leftDemocratic Party (PD). Two deputies (Vincenzo Piso andEugenia Roccella) and four senators (Andrea Augello,Luigi Compagna,Carlo Giovanardi and Gaetano Quagliariello) left the NCD because they no longer supported its alliance with the PD. They were joined by two deputies,Guglielmo Vaccaro (ex-PD, laterUnique Italy–IU) andRenata Bueno (South American Union Italian Emigrants–USEI), and several regional politicians, includingDavide Bellomo (independent,Apulia),Stefano Casali (Tosi List for Veneto,Veneto),Giovanni Chiodi (independent, formerPresident ofAbruzzo) andVittoriano Solazzi (Marche 2020,Marche).[4][5][6][7][8]
Since its foundation, IdeA aimed at being part of the largercentre-right coalition.[5] The party established a particularly close relationship withUnique Italy (IU), of which Quagliariello became speaker in the Senate.[9][10][11] In the meantime, the four deputies of IdeA, along withAniello Formisano ofItaly of Values (IdV, a party which had long been part of centre-left coalitions), formed a sub-group, named after the USEI (and, later, "USEI–IdeA"), within theMixed Group of the Chamber,[12][13] while the party's four senators joined the heterogeneousGreat Autonomies and Freedom (GAL) group.[14][15]
In May 2017 the party changed its allegiance both in the Chamber, where it formed a sub-group with theUnion of the Centre (UdC) within the Mixed Group,[16] and the Senate, where it left the GAL group and launched the alternativeFederation of Freedom (FdL) group along with theItalian Liberal Party (PLI) and others, under Quagliariello's leadership.[17][18][19]
In December 2017 IdeA was supposed to be a founding member ofUs with Italy (NcI), a pro-Silvio Berlusconi centrist electoral list within the centre-right coalition for the2018 general election, but finally stood out.[20][21][22] NcI was launched by splinters fromPopular Alternative (AP – two groups, a Christian-democratic one led byMaurizio Lupi and a liberal one led byEnrico Costa),Direction Italy (DC),Civic Choice (SC),Act! (F!),Cantiere Popolare (CP) and theMovement for the Autonomies (MpA).[20][21][22] However, in early January 2018, after that NcI had been joined also by the UdC,[23][24][25] IdeA joined too,[26][27] with the goal of reaching 3%, required to win seats from proportional lists under a new electoral law.
In the election the NcI obtained a mere 1.3% of the vote and only Quagliariello was re-elected for IdeA. Soon after the election, the party quit NcI and, along with the UdC, formed a pact with FI and joined its parliamentary group.[28][29][30][31]
In the2019 Basilicata regional election the party obtained 4.2% of the vote.
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