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The
Patto Segni (Segni Pact, PATTO) was a
Christian-democratic and
liberal political party in Italy.
History
The party was founded in 1993 as a split from
Democratic Alliance and as a continuation of
Populars for the Reform, a split from
Christian Democracy in 1992, whose principal aim was electoral reform from
proportional representation to a
first-past-the-post system. Its leader was
Mario Segni.
The party contested the
1994 general election in alliance with the
Italian People's Party, named
Pact for Italy (Mario Segni was candidate for Premier for this centrist coalition), and welcomed in its lists
Republicans (
Giorgio La Malfa,
Alberto Zorzoli,
Vittorio Dotti,
Danilo Poggiolini and
Carla Mazzuca),
Liberals (
Valerio Zanone,
Pietro Milio and
Luigi Compagna),
Socialists (
Giuliano Amato,
Giulio Tremonti and
Claudio Nicolini),
Italian Democratic Socialist Party (
Enrico Ferri and
Gian Franco Schietroma) and, of course, many former
Christian Democrats (
Gianni Rivera,
Alberto Michelini,
Elisabetta Gardini,
Michele Cossa,
Livio Filippi,
Vincenzo Viola, Mario Segni himself, etc.).
Patto Segni scored 4.7%, electing 13 deputies, but soon after the elections it split in many factions: the group around Alberto Michelini and Giulio Tremonti, for instance, founded the
Liberal Democratic Foundation and decided to support
Berlusconi I Cabinet (Tremonti even became Finance Minister). By the
1996 general election, they'd joined
Forza Italia.
In the 1995 regional elections Patto Segni formed a list named
Pact of Democrats, along with the
Italian Socialists and Democratic Alliance, scoring everywhere between 3 and 6%, with the exception of
Abruzzo (6.7%) and tiny
Molise (9.2%).
In the 1996 general election the party was part of the list of
Italian Renewal and elected only five deputies (
Giuseppe Biccocchi,
Diego Masi,
Elisa Pozza Tasca, Gianni Rivera and
Ernesto Stajano) and one senator (
Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini).
In 1999, after having partecipated to the foundation of the
Democratic Union for the Republic of
Francesco Cossiga and
Clemente Mastella, attracted some former
Radicals from Forza Italia (
Marco Taradash and
Giuseppe Calderisi) and lost many leftish members to
The Democrats (Elisa Pozza Tasca, Danilo Poggiolini, Carla Mazzuca, Livio Filippi and Vincenzo Viola), Mario Segni forged a joint list with
National Alliance for the 1999 European Parliament election: only Segni was elected MEP.
In 2001 Patto Segni decided not to present lists for the general election, but Michele Cossa, member of the
Sardinian Reformers (section of the party in
Sardinia), was elected deputy in a first-past-the-post district of
Cagliari for the
House of Freedoms.
In 2003 the party was finally transformed itself in the
Pact of Liberal Democrats.
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