Patto Segni

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The Patto Segni (Segni Pact, PATTO) was a Christian-democratic and liberal political party in Italy.

[edit] History

The party was founded in 1993 as a split from Democratic Alliance and as a continuation of Populars for the Reform, a split from Christian Democracy in 1992, whose principal aim was electoral reform from proportional representation to a first-past-the-post system. Its leader was Mario Segni.

The party contested the 1994 general election in alliance with the Italian People's Party, named Pact for Italy (Mario Segni was candidate for Premier for this centrist coalition), and welcomed in its lists Republicans (Giorgio La Malfa, Alberto Zorzoli, Vittorio Dotti, Danilo Poggiolini and Carla Mazzuca), Liberals (Valerio Zanone, Pietro Milio and Luigi Compagna), Socialists (Giuliano Amato, Giulio Tremonti and Claudio Nicolini), Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Enrico Ferri and Gian Franco Schietroma) and, of course, many former Christian Democrats (Gianni Rivera, Alberto Michelini, Elisabetta Gardini, Michele Cossa, Livio Filippi, Vincenzo Viola, Mario Segni himself, etc.).

Patto Segni scored 4.7%, electing 13 deputies, but soon after the elections it split in many factions: the group around Alberto Michelini and Giulio Tremonti, for instance, founded the Liberal Democratic Foundation and decided to support Berlusconi I Cabinet (Tremonti even became Finance Minister). By the 1996 general election, they had joined Forza Italia.

In the 1995 regional elections Patto Segni formed a list named Pact of Democrats, along with the Italian Socialists and Democratic Alliance, scoring everywhere between 3 and 6%, with the exception of Abruzzo (6.7%) and tiny Molise (9.2%).

In the 1996 general election the party was part of the list of Italian Renewal and elected only five deputies (Giuseppe Biccocchi, Diego Masi, Elisa Pozza Tasca, Gianni Rivera and Ernesto Stajano) and one senator (Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini).

In 1999, after having partecipated to the foundation of the Democratic Union for the Republic of Francesco Cossiga and Clemente Mastella, attracted some former Radicals from Forza Italia (Marco Taradash and Giuseppe Calderisi) and lost many leftish members to The Democrats (Elisa Pozza Tasca, Danilo Poggiolini, Carla Mazzuca, Livio Filippi and Vincenzo Viola), Mario Segni forged a joint list with National Alliance for the 1999 European Parliament election: only Segni was elected MEP.

In 2001 Patto Segni decided not to present lists for the general election, but Michele Cossa, member of the Sardinian Reformers (section of the party in Sardinia), was elected deputy in a first-past-the-post district of Cagliari for the House of Freedoms.

In 2003 the party was finally transformed itself in the Pact of Liberal Democrats.

 

Historical Italian political parties (active parties: simple version, in 2007)

Communist: Communist Party of Italy, Italian Communist Party, Organisation of Communists of Italy (Marxist-Leninists), Proletarian Unity Party, Proletarian Democracy, Movement of Unitarian Communists Socialist and social-democratic: Italian Socialist Party, Italian Reform Socialist Party, United Socialist Party (1922), Labour Democratic Party, Italian Socialist Workers' Party, United Socialist Party (1949), Italian Democratic Socialist Party, Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, Unified Socialist Party, Democratic Party of the Left, Italian Socialists, Democrats of the Left Green: Green Lists, Rainbow Greens Social liberal: Action Party, Radical Party, Democratic Alliance, Democratic Union, Movement for Democracy – The Net, The Democrats, European Republicans Movement, Liberal: Italian Liberal Party, Union of the Centre, Liberal Party Centrist: Patto Segni, Italian Renewal, United Consumers, Southern Democratic Party, Middle-of-the-Road Italy, Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy Regionalist: Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol, Fronte Marco Polo, Sardinia Project, Sicilian Alliance Christian democratic: Italian People's Party (1919), Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party (1994), Christian Democratic Centre, United Christian Democrats, Christian Democrats for the Republic, Democratic Union for the Republic, European Democracy Conservative: Uomo Qualunque Front, Monarchist National Party, People's Monarchist Party, Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity, National Democracy Fascist and neo-fascist: National Fascist Party, Italian Social Movement–National Right Leftist coalition: Popular Democratic Front, Alliance of Progressives, Centre-left coalition:The Olive Tree, The Union, Rose in the Fist Liberal coalition: National Democratic Union, National Bloc, Republicans, Liberals, Reformers Centrist coalition: Pact for Italy, Pact of Democrats Centre-right coalition: Pole of Freedoms, Pole of Good Government, House of Freedoms Conservative coalition: National Bloc of Freedom Neo-fascist coalition: Social Alternative Liste civetta: For the Abolition of Scorporo, New Country