Alliance of the Centre Alleanza di Centro | |
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Secretary | Francesco Pionati |
Deputy Secretary | Mario Pietracupa |
Founded | 4 December 2008 |
Split from | Union of the Centre |
Headquarters | Via dei Prefetti, 46 Rome |
Ideology | Christian democracy |
Political position | Centre to centre-right [1] [2] |
National affiliation | Coalition: Centre-right coalition (2008–present) Electoral list: The Autonomy (2009) Political party: Us with Italy (2022–present) |
Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 400 |
Senate | 0 / 200 |
European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
Website | |
www.alleanzadicentro.it | |
Alliance of the Centre ( Italian: Alleanza di Centro, AdC), whose full name is Alliance of the Centre for the Territories ( Italian: Alleanza di Centro per i Territori), is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.
It was founded in November 2008 as Alliance of the Centre for Freedom ( Italian: Alleanza di Centro per la Libertà) by splinters from the Union of the Centre (UdC) who wanted to return to an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition and support his fourth government. [3] Its leader is Francesco Pionati, deputy and formerly spokesman of the UdC. [3] [4]
At the 2009 European Parliament election, AdC was part of The Autonomy, [5] [6] an electoral coalition including The Right, the Movement for the Autonomies and the Pensioners' Party, which gained 2.2% of the vote and no MEPs. [7] In the 2010 general regional elections AdC ran its lists in a handful of regions, electing only one regional councillor in Pionati's homeregion, Campania (2.35%). [8] In the 2011 Molise regional election the party got the 6.73% of the vote and 2 seats in the Regional Council. [9]
On 20 January 2011, AdC was a founding component of Responsible Initiative (later renamed People and Territory), a centre-right group in the Italian Chamber of Deputies during the 16th Legislature. [10] In October 2012, the balance of accounts of the People of Freedom (PdL) showed that the Alliance of the Centre had received €80,000 of financial support from PdL. [11]
The party was renamed Alliance of the Centre for the Territories in July 2019. [12]