Italian People's Party (1994)

For the party with the same name which was active from 1919 to 1926, see Italian People's Party (1919).
Italian People's Party
Partito Popolare Italiano
AbbreviationPPI
LeadersMino Martinazzoli
Rocco Buttiglione
Gerardo Bianco
Franco Marini
Pierluigi Castagnetti
Founded18 January 1994
Dissolved6 December 2002
Preceded byChristian Democracy
Merged intoThe Daisy
Succeeded byThe Populars
NewspaperIl Popolo
Youth wingYoung Populars
IdeologyChristian democracy[1]
Christian left[2]
Political positionCentre[3] to centre-left[4][5]
National affiliationPact for Italy (1994)
The Olive Tree (1995–2002)
European affiliationEuropean People's Party
European Parliament groupEuropean People's Party
International affiliationChristian 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.

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