Unique Italy Explained

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Unique Italy
Native Name:Italia Unica
President:Corrado Passera
Leader1 Title:Coordinator
Leader1 Name:Lelio Alfonso
Foundation:23 February 2014
Dissolution:6 September 2016
Headquarters:Via di S. Teresa, 23,
00198 Rome
Ideology:Liberalism
Position:Centre-right
Country:Italy

Unique Italy (Italia Unica, IU; unico/a translates both to "unique" and "united") was a centre-right political party in Italy.

Its leader was Corrado Passera, a former manager (Mondadori, Espresso, Olivetti, Poste), banker (Intesa/Intesa Sanpaolo), supporter of the centre-left Olive Tree coalition and minister of Economic Development in Monti Cabinet (2011–2013).[1]

History

The party was launched during two conventions in February[2] and June 2014,[3] [4] respectively. Passera aimed at forming a "liberal, popular and reform" alternative to Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party (PD) and re-unifying the centre-right, which was divided at the time between several contentious parties and leaders.[5]

At its founding congress in January 2015,[6] the party unveiled its leadership. Led by Passera, president, and Lelio Alfonso (former spokesperson of Future Italy, IF and Civic Choice, SC), national coordinator, the party's national board notably included Diego Bottacin (former regional councillor in Veneto for Democracy is Freedom–DL, the PD and Toward North–VN), Fabio Evangelisti (a former MP for the Democrats of the Left–DS and Italy of Values–IdV), Silvana Mura (former treasurer and MP of IdV), Renzo Tondo (a former Socialist who served as President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and MP for Forza Italia–FI and The People of Freedom–PdL) and Santo Versace (another former Socialist who was MP for the PdL).[7] [8]

Pino Bicchielli (former member of the national board of Alliance for Italy–ApI and former coordinator of Democratic Centre–CD) and Marco Calgaro (a former MP of DL and the Union of the Centre–UdC) joined IU by September.[9] [10] Among the others who joined later, it is worth mentioning Maria Ida Germontani (a former member of Lega Nord–LN and senator of National Alliance–AN).[11]

Since November 2015 IU was represented by Guglielmo Vaccaro, elected with the PD and formerly a close affiliate of Enrico Letta, in the Chamber of Deputies and by Gaetano Quagliariello, elected with the PdL, passed through the New Centre-Right (NCD) and now leader of Identity and Action (IdeA), which allowed membership to other parties through the so-called "double membership", in the Senate. Vaccaro also hinted that IU and IdeA would soon merge into a single party.[12] [13] [14] [15]

Passera was supposed to run for mayor in the 2016 municipal election in Milan, but eventually decided to endorse Stefano Parisi, the joint centre-right candidate supported by the LN, FI, the NCD and the UdC.[16] Consequently, the IU candidates were included in the larger "Parisi List for a Unique Milano".[17]

In September 2016 the party, which had failed to take roots in the country, was dissolved.[18] [19]

Leadership

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: QuestIT s.r.l. . Archivio Corriere della Sera . Archiviostorico.corriere.it . 2016-05-08.
  2. Web site: Presentazione del progetto politico di Corrado Passera "Italia Unica" (23.02.2014) . it . Radioradicale.it . 2014-02-23 . 2016-05-08.
  3. Web site: Una nuova giornata unica. Per costruire insieme un paese migliore (14.06.2014) . it . Radioradicale.it . 2014-06-14 . 2016-05-08.
  4. Web site: QuestIT s.r.l. . Archivio Corriere della Sera . Archiviostorico.corriere.it . 2016-05-08.
  5. Web site: Passera: "Renzi ha comprato i voti. Rifaccio il centrodestra" - Personaggi - Libero Quotidiano . Liberoquotidiano.it . 2016-04-19 . 2016-05-08.
  6. Web site: QuestIT s.r.l. . Archivio Corriere della Sera . Archiviostorico.corriere.it . 2016-05-08.
  7. Web site: Direzione Nazionale - Italia Unica . 2015-02-04 . 2016-05-08 . unfit . https://web.archive.org/web/20150204135600/http://www.italiaunica.it/iscritti/direzione-nazionale . February 4, 2015 .
  8. Web site: QuestIT s.r.l. . Archivio Corriere della Sera . Archiviostorico.corriere.it . 2016-05-08.
  9. Web site: antonellap . Bicchielli torna in Campania: guiderà Italia Unica di Passera | ilCasertano . Ilcasertano.it . 2016-05-08.
  10. Web site: Italia Unica, presentati a Pomezia i primi referenti regionali - Italia Unica . Italiaunica.it . 2014-06-20 . 2016-05-08.
  11. Web site: Direzione Nazionale - Italia Unica . Italiaunica.it . 1963-01-13 . 2016-05-08.
  12. Web site: Italia Unica in Parlamento - Italia Unica . Italiaunica.it . 2014-06-20 . 2016-05-08.
  13. Web site: Altri articoli dalla categoria . Italia Unica entra in Parlamento con Quagliariello e Vaccaro . Repubblica.it . 2015-11-30 . 2016-05-08.
  14. Web site: 2 dicembre 2015 . Italia Unica, Passera: entriamo in Parlamento. Speaker e "intesa" con Quagliariello . Il Sole 24 ORE . 2015-12-02 . 2016-05-08.
  15. Web site: Redazione, L'Huffington Post . Italia Unica, Corrado Passera arruola l'ex pd Guglielmo Vaccaro alla Camera. Al Senato "intesa" con Gaetano Quagliariello . Huffingtonpost.it . 2 December 2015. 2016-05-08.
  16. Web site: Elezioni a Milano, Passera si ritira e sostiene Parisi. 27 April 2016.
  17. Web site: Elezioni Comunali, presentata "Lista civica Parisi. Per una Milano Unica" - Milano - Il Giorno . 2016-05-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160420205050/http://www.ilgiorno.it/milano/parisi-lista-civica-1.2056863 . 2016-04-20 . dead .
  18. Web site: Italia Unica si ferma. Non le sue idee - Italia Unica . www.italiaunica.it . 14 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161011203904/http://www.italiaunica.it/italia-unica-si-ferma-non-le-sue-idee/ . 11 October 2016 . dead.
  19. Web site: Italia Unica, Corrado Passera "chiude" il suo partito: "Non siamo riusciti a convincere" - Il Fatto Quotidiano. 7 September 2016.