Cantiere Popolare | |
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Leader | Francesco Saverio Romano |
Founded | 4 January 2012 |
Preceded by | The Populars of Italy Tomorrow |
Ideology |
Christian democracy Regionalism |
Political position | Centre to centre-right |
National affiliation | Political party: The People of Freedom (2013) Forza Italia (2013–15) Liberal Popular Alliance (2015–17) Us with Italy (2017–present) Coalition: Centre-right coalition (2017–present) |
Chamber of Deputies | 1 / 400 (Into
Us Moderates)
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Senate | 0 / 200
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European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
Sicilian Regional Assembly | 0 / 70 |
Website | |
www.cantierepopolare.it | |
Cantiere Popolare (translatable into Popular Worksite) is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy, based in Sicily.
The party's leader is Francesco Saverio Romano, a former Sicilian leader of the Union of the Centre and, later, minister of Agriculture in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth government.
This section needs to be updated. The reason given is: there aren't any information after 2017.(December 2022) |
The CP was launched in January 2012 as an evolution of The Populars of Italy Tomorrow (PID), [1] [2] a Sicilian-based Christian-democratic emerged in 2010 as a split from the Union of the Centre (UdC). Other subjects ( Popular Action, the Christian Movement of Workers and the Extended Christian Pact) took part to the project. [3] Francesco Saverio Romano, leader of the PID, went on to lead also the CP.
In the 2012 Sicilian regional election, the CP won 5.9% of the vote and obtained four regional deputies. [4]
CP took part in the February 2013 general election, siding with the centre-right coalition, and got 0.1% of the votes. [5] Nevertheless, thanks to an agreement with The People of Freedom (PDL) party, Francesco Saverio Romano managed to run in PDL's list and be elected as MP. [6] In October 2013, CP became an associate party of the newly-constituted Forza Italia (FI). [7] [8] In 2015, Romano left FI and joined with the Liberal Popular Alliance (ALA) parliamentary group, in support of the Renzi Cabinet. [9] [10]
In the run-up to the 2017 Sicilian regional election, the CP returned into the centre-right's fold and teamed up with the Movement for the Autonomies (MpA) under the electoral list "Populars and Autonomists". [11] [12] [13] The list won 7.1% of the votes, obtained five regional deputies and entered the regional government led by Nello Musumeci, the newly elected president. [14] [15]
In December 2017, Romano broke with ALA [16] [17] and CP became one of the founding members of Us with Italy (NcI), a pro- Silvio Berlusconi centrist electoral list within the centre-right coalition for the 2018 general election. [18] [19] [20]
Sicilian Regional Assembly | |||||
Election year | Votes | % | Seats | +/− | Leader |
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2012 | 112,169 (8th) | 5.9 | 4 / 90
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2017 | 136,520 (4th) [a] | 7.1 | 5 / 70
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2022 | 127,096 | 6.8 | 3 / 70
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