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Middle Italy (political party)

Field	Value
colorcode
country	Italy
name	Middle Italy
native_name	Italia di Mezzo
leader	Marco Follini
ideology	Centrism
Christian left
Christian democracy
national	The Union
european	None
international	None
website	www.italiadimezzo.it
foundation
dissolution
split	Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
merged	Democratic Party

Christian left Christian democracy

Middle Italy (Italia di mezzo, IdM) was a centrist Italian political grouping founded in 2006 by Marco Follini, Senate member and former leader of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC, 2002–05), and Riccardo Conti, member of the Chamber of Deputies. Initially founded as a free political association in support of the "no" vote for the 2006 constitutional referendum, it became a party on 21 October 2006, after Follini announced his resignations from the UDC caucus.

The primary goal of this political movement was to attract all those voters who were unsatisfied by the Italian political system, based on the often harsh contraposition between the centre-left Union and the centre-right House of Freedoms, and to change, or, better, to produce the end of bi-polarism. However, IdM supported then-Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a confidence vote and then entered The Union.

Never having contested an election on its own, the party merged into the Democratic Party (PD) at its founding on 14 October 2007. Most of its members did not follow Follini in that decision and switched to the Third Pole, led by former Minister of the Interior Vincenzo Scotti.

References

(February 2022)
Scherer, Steve. (2007-02-23). "Prodi Allies Say They Have Support to Form New Italy Government". Bloomberg.
(2006-10-20). "Follini quits UDC party". ITALY Magazine.

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