- Patto Segni
The Patto Segni (Segni Pact, PATTO) was a Christian-democratic and liberal political party in Italy.
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 fromproportional representation to afirst-past-the-post system. Its leader wasMario 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 andCarla Mazzuca ), Liberals (Valerio Zanone ,Pietro Milio andLuigi Compagna ), Socialists (Giuliano Amato ,Giulio Tremonti andClaudio Nicolini ),Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Enrico Ferri andGian 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 supportBerlusconi I Cabinet (Tremonti even became Finance Minister). By the 1996 general election, they had joinedForza Italia .In the 1995 regional elections Patto Segni formed a list named
Pact of Democrats , along with theItalian Socialists and Democratic Alliance, scoring everywhere between 3 and 6%, with the exception ofAbruzzo (6.7%) and tinyMolise (9.2%). In November to FlorenceGian Piero Ventura [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian_Piero_Ventura_Mazzuca] , secretary of the youthful group, it has founded the movement “Young People forThe Olive Tree ” withRomano Prodi eWalter Veltroni .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,Ernesto Stajano and one senatorCarla Mazzuca Poggiolini ) insideThe Olive Tree coalition.In 1999, after having partecipated to the foundation of the
Democratic Union for the Republic ofFrancesco Cossiga andClemente Mastella , attracted some former Radicals from Forza Italia (Marco Taradash andGiuseppe Calderisi ) and lost many leftish members toThe 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 inSardinia ), was elected deputy in a first-past-the-post district ofCagliari for theHouse of Freedoms .In 2003 the party was finally transformed itself in the
Pact of Liberal Democrats .
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