Christian Democrats for Freedom

Christian Democrats for Freedom (Italian: Cristiani Democratici per la Libertà, CDL) was a small christian-democratic political party in Italy.

Christian Democrats for Freedom Cristiani Democratici per la Libertà
Leader	Roberto Formigoni
Founded	1998
Dissolved	2001
Split from	United Christian Democrats
Merged into	Forza Italia
Ideology	Christian democracy
Political position	Centre
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

History

The party was founded following a split from the United Christian Democrats of Rocco Buttiglione, who intended to abandon the centre-right alliance to join the Democratic Union for the Republic, conceived by Francesco Cossiga. The political line pursued by Buttiglione, however, was harshly opposed by leading members of the CDU: the Lombard president Roberto Formigoni and the Apulian exponent Raffaele Fitto.[1]

On 4 April 1998 the assembly of centrists was held in Rome, promoted by Fitto and Formigoni. It was on this occasion that Fitto and Formigoni announced the birth of the CdL. Three senators joined the new party: Rosario Giorgio Costa, Tomaso Zanoletti and Ida Maria Dentamaro.

The CdL approached the Christian Democratic Centre of Pier Ferdinando Casini and the two parties made an agreement in view of the administrative elections of 1998. The CdL subsequently joined Forza Italia of Silvio Berlusconi.

References

CDU: FORMIGONI DENUNCIA, BUTTIGLIONE VIOLA LO STATUTO

Historical political parties and coalitions in Italy

Communist
Communist Party of Italy Proletarian Unity Party Italian Communist Party Proletarian Democracy Movement of Unitarian Communists Party of Italian Communists

Democratic-socialist and post-communist
Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party Italian Workers' Party Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity Democratic Party of the Left Democratic Left Movement for the Left Left Ecology Freedom

Social-democratic
Italian Reformist Socialist Party Unitary Socialist Party (1922) Action Party Unitary Socialist Party (1949) Unified Socialist Party Italian Socialist Party Democrats of the Left Labour Federation Social Christians Italian Socialists Italian Democratic Socialist Party Italian Democratic Socialists

Green
Rainbow Greens Federation of Green Lists

Radical and social-liberal
Action Party (1848) Dissident Left Historical Far Left Italian Radical Party Democratic Party Constitutional Democratic Party Democratic Liberal Party Italian Social Democratic Party Labour Democratic Party Republican Democratic Concentration Radical Party Democratic Alliance Republican Left Democratic Union The Network Italy Work in Progress

Centrist and centrist-liberal
Historical Left Liberal Union Democratic Union for the Republic Pannella List Union for the Republic Italian Renewal The Democrats Segni Pact Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy Bonino List Bonino-Pannella List Alliance for Italy Civic Choice Liberal Popular Alliance

Christian-democratic
Conservative Catholics Italian Catholic Electoral Union Italian People's Party (1919) German Association Christian Democracy Italian People's Party (1994) Christian Democrats for the Republic Christian Democratic Centre United Christian Democrats European Democracy Christian Democracy for the Autonomies Liberal Populars Union of Democrats for Europe

Conservative-liberal
Moderate Party Historical Right Italian Liberal Party Liberal Democratic Pole Union of the Centre Act to Stop the Decline

Liberal-conservative
Economic Party National Democratic Alliance Forza Italia The People of Freedom Future and Freedom New Centre-Right Conservatives and Reformists Direction Italy

National-conservative
Common Man's Front Monarchist National Party People's Monarchist Party Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity National Democracy National Alliance The Right National Movement for Sovereignty

Nationalist, fascist and post-fascist
Combatants' Party Italian Nationalist Association National Fascist Party Republican Fascist Party Italian Social Movement

Regionalist and federalist
Movement for the Independence of Sicily Federalist Italian League Federalists and Liberal Democrats Autonomists for Europe Force of the South Great South

Coalitions of parties

Leftist coalitions	Popular Democratic Front Alliance of Progressives
Centre-left coalitions	Socialist Unity The Olive Tree The Union Italy. Common Good
Centrist coalitions	Pact for Italy New Pole for Italy With Monti for Italy
Centre-right coalitions	National Democratic Union National Bloc Pole of Freedoms Pole of Good Government Pole for Freedoms House of Freedoms
Rightist coalitions	National Bloc of Freedom National Union
Government-only coalitions	Centrism Organic Centre-left Pentapartito

List of political parties in Italy
19th-century Italian political groups
Early 20th-century Italian political parties
1950s–1990s Italian political parties
Current Italian political parties

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