The Union (political coalition)

L' Unione was an Italian party alliance, often referred to as the center- left coalition.

It consisted of the original coalition The Olive, which ruled from 1996 to 2001. On 3 and 4 April 2005, the Alliance participated for the first time in an extended form ( including the communist PRC ) as L' Unione successfully at the regional elections in 13 Italian regions with normal statute. The same alliance has performed with the top candidate Romano Prodi also in the parliamentary elections of 2006 against Silvio Berlusconi.

With the resignation of Romano Prodi as prime minister and the dissolution of Parliament on February 6, 2008, L' Unione has resolved factual. In the early parliamentary elections on 13 and 14 April 2008, the center-left parties came to no longer together. The new Partito Democratico, in which the former parties to the Democrats of Sinistra, La Margherita and the Movimento Repubblicani Europei and other splinter parties have united, introduced under the top candidate Walter Veltroni without allies to vote. The Partito della Refoundation and the Partito dei Comunisti Italiani came with a separate list under the name La Sinistra - L' Arcobaleno on.

L' Unione consisted, inter alia, from the following lists and parties:

  • The Olive list: Democrats of the Sinistra
  • La Margherita - Democrazia è Libertà
  • Movimento Repubblicani Europei
  • Socialisti Democratici Italiani
  • Radical
  • Historic Party ( Italy)
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