Popular Area

Popular Area
Area Popolare
LeaderAngelino Alfano
Founded11–16 December 2014
Dissolved21–29 March 2017
Preceded byNew Centre-Right – Union of the Centre
Succeeded byPopular Civic List
IdeologyChristian democracy
Social conservatism
Pro-Europeanism
Political positionCentre to centre-right
European affiliationEuropean People's Party
European Parliament groupEPP Group

Popular Area (Italian: Area Popolare, AP) was a centre-right and mainly Christian-democratic coalition, which included two parliamentary groups active in each house of the Italian Parliament: the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

"Popular" was a reference to popolarismo, the Italian variety of Christian democracy.