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19-525: The Southern Democratic Party was founded in 2006, as a split from the regional organisation of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy . The PDM's leader was Agazio Loiero , President of Calabria Region since 2005. The Southern Democrats were strong supporters of constructing the Democratic Party in order to unite the Italian centre-left, despite PDM's members being mostly moderate conservatives. In

38-520: A move to a two-party system . Democracy Is Freedom was a pro-European centrist party, with a strong support among Catholics , especially progressive ones: the party was described as " social Christian ". The party put together social conservatives with social progressives , economic liberals and social democrats . Many former members of the Italian People's Party, one of the ancestor parties of DL, were members or close supporters of

57-470: The 2006 general election , The Daisy was member of the victorious alliance The Union , and won 39 out of 315 senators . The Olive Tree list, of which DL was a member since the 2004 European Parliament election , won 220 seats out of 630 in the Chamber of Deputies . On 14 October 2007, DL, DS and numerous minor parties merged to form the Democratic Party (PD), a unitary centre-left party in anticipation of

76-916: The 2006 general election , thanks to a political pact with the Consumers' List , PDM scored 5.3% and elected a Senator, Pietro Fuda (former President of Province of Reggio Calabria for Forza Italia ). On 19 March 2007, Eva Catizone , formerly of the Italian Socialist Party and former mayor of Cosenza for the Democrats of the Left , was elected leader of the party. In the subsequent municipal elections, PDM scored 13.7% in Catanzaro , 6.5% in Crotone and 4.2% in Cosenza . The PDM joined

95-740: The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group (ALDE). In 2005, DL participated in the foundation of the Alliance of Democrats , a worldwide network of centrist parties, along with the New Democrat Coalition of the United States Democratic Party , the EDP member parties and the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats . Leading members of the party included: DL was mainly composed of four factions,

114-698: The Christian Democrats for the Republic ), Rocco Buttiglione (leader of the United Christian Democrats , CDU), Mario Segni (leader of Segni Pact ), Carlo Scognamiglio (ex- Forza Italia , FI), Enrico Ferri (ex-CCD, former leader of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party and European Liberal Social Democracy ) and Irene Pivetti (ex- Lega Nord ), along with several other MPs elected for

133-752: The Daisy Civic List in Trentino , the Autonomist Federation in Aosta Valley and Together for Veneto in Veneto . Initially some of these experiments were intended to include both Christian-inspired parties and secular ones, such as SDI and PRI. However, on 12 October 2000, only PPI, Dem, UDEUR and RI agreed to join forces with a joint list called "The Daisy" for the 2001 general election . The Daisy, led by Francesco Rutelli (who

152-469: The Democratic Party at its founding congress on 14 October 2007. Democracy is Freedom %E2%80%93 The Daisy Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy ( Italian : Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita , DL ), commonly known simply as The Daisy ( La Margherita ), was a centrist political party in Italy . The party was formed from the merger of three parties within the centre-left coalition :

171-689: The Democratic Union for the Republic (UDR), later transformed into Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR), to support the D'Alema I Cabinet . In 1999 splinters of PPI, UD and other groups formed The Democrats (Dem). Between 1998 and 2000, there were several precursors of such idea at the regional and local level in Northeast Italy , notably the Reformist Popular Centre in Friuli-Venezia Giulia ,

190-910: The Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions (CISL), the Catholic trade union. After the 2004 European elections the new party decided not to become a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR) or of the European People's Party , but founded the European Democratic Party (EDP) together with the Union for French Democracy . In the European Parliament , the EDP and ELDR European parties established

209-674: The Italian People's Party , The Democrats and Italian Renewal . The party president and leader was Francesco Rutelli , former mayor of Rome and prime ministerial candidate during the 2001 general election for The Olive Tree coalition, within which The Daisy electoral list won 14.5% of the national vote. The Daisy became a single party in February 2002. It was set up by former left-leaning Christian Democrats , centrists, social-liberals (former Liberals and former Republicans ), as well as other left-wing politicians from

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228-775: The Populars for Prodi , an electoral list including the Italian People's Party (PPI), Democratic Union (UD), the Italian Republican Party (PRI) and the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), and that of Italian Renewal (RI), including the Segni Pact (PS) and Italian Socialists (SI), which later merged into the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) in 1998. In 1998 splinters from the centre-right coalition formed

247-671: The DL federation (comprising at the time PPI, Dem, UDEUR and RI). From 2004 (European) the results refer to DL, formed by PPI, Dem and RI, after the defection of UDEUR. The result for the 2006 general election refers to the election for the Senate, indeed DL contested the election for the Chamber of Deputies in a joint list with Democrats of the Left . Democratic Union for the Republic The Democratic Union for

266-506: The Republic ( Italian : Unione Democratica per la Repubblica , UDR ) was a short-lived Christian-democratic and centrist political party in Italy . It was founded in February 1998 by Francesco Cossiga (former Prime Minister and President ) in order to provide a majority in Parliament for the creation of the D'Alema I Cabinet . The party also included Clemente Mastella (ex- Christian Democratic Centre , CCD, then leader of

285-722: The centre-right. Cossiga'a sim was to facilitate the creation of a centre-left governments without the support of the Communist Refoundation Party . The UDR was initially only a federation of parties, but in June CDR, CDU and the Segni Pact merged to form a united party and Mastella was elected secretary. After disagreements between Cossiga and Mastella, the party broke up in February 1999. Most party members rallied behind Mastella and joined his Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR). Those around Cossiga formed

304-406: The combined result of PPI and Pact of Democrats (joint-list of Segni Pact and AD, including also SI ), those of 1996 (general and Sicilian regional) to the combined result of the joint-list of PPI and UD and RI (whose list was composed of the Segni Pact and SI), those of 1999 (European) and 2000 (regional) to the combined result of PPI, Dem and RI, those of 2001 (general and Sicilian regional)

323-435: The first three of them supporting Francesco Rutelli 's leadership: The electoral results of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy in the 10 most populated regions of Italy are shown in the table below. As DL was founded in 2002, the electoral results from 1994 to 2001 refer to the combined result of the precursor parties. The results of 1994 (general) refer to the combined result of PPI , Segni Pact and AD , those of 1994 to

342-475: The former Italian Socialist Party and Federation of the Greens . On 14 October 2007, DL merged with the Democrats of the Left to form the Democratic Party (PD). The idea of uniting the centrist components of The Olive Tree , which were divided in many parties, was discussed at least from 1996. In the 1996 general election , there were actually two centrist lists within the Italian centre-left coalition :

361-534: Was also candidate for Prime Minister for the whole centre-left), won 14.5% of the vote, only two points less than the Democrats of the Left (DS). Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy was established as a single party during the founding congress of Parma in March 2002. On that occasion the Italian People's Party, The Democrats and Italian Renewal merged to form the new party, while the UDEUR decided to remain separate. In

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