Italian People's Party Partito Popolare Italiano | |
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Abbreviation | PPI |
Leaders | Mino Martinazzoli Rocco Buttiglione Gerardo Bianco Franco Marini Pierluigi Castagnetti |
Founded | 18 January 1994 |
Dissolved | 6 December 2002 |
Preceded by | Christian Democracy |
Merged into | The Daisy |
Succeeded by | The Populars |
Newspaper | Il Popolo |
Youth wing | Young Populars |
Ideology | Christian democracy[1] Christian left[2] |
Political position | Centre[3] to centre-left[4][5] |
National affiliation | Pact for Italy (1994) The Olive Tree (1995–2002) |
European affiliation | European People's Party |
European Parliament group | European People's Party |
International affiliation | Christian Democrat International |
Colors | White |
The Italian People's Party (Italian: Partito Popolare Italiano, PPI) was a Christian-democratic,[6][7] centrist[8] and Christian-leftist[9] political party in Italy. The party was a member of the European People's Party (EPP).[10]
The PPI was the formal successor of the Christian Democracy (DC),[11] but was soon deprived of its conservative elements, which successively formed the Christian Democratic Centre (CCD) in 1994 and the United Christian Democrats (CDU) in 1995. The PPI was finally merged into Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL) in 2002, and DL was later merged with the Democrats of the Left (DS) and minor centre-left parties into Democratic Party (PD) in 2007.