Identity and Action

Identity and Action
Identità e Azione
Leader Gaetano Quagliariello
Founded 25 November 2015
Split from New Centre-Right
Headquarters Rome, Italy
Ideology Christian democracy
Social conservatism
Conservative liberalism
Political position Centre-right
Colours      Blue      Orange
Chamber of Deputies
4 / 630
Senate
4 / 315
European Parliament
0 / 73

Identity and Action (Italian: Identità e Azione, IdeA), also known as IdeA Movement (Movimento IdeA), is a conservative political party in Italy, whose membership stretches from Christian democracy to conservative liberalism.

The party's leader is Gaetano Quagliariello, a former minister of Institutional Reforms.

IdeA allows "double membership", meaning that its members can also be members of other parties.

History

The party was formed as a "movement" on 25 November 2015 by a group of splinters from the New Centre-Right (NCD), a centre-right party which was then part of government led by Matteo Renzi, leader of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD).

Two deputies (Vincenzo Piso and Eugenia Roccella) and four senators (Andrea Augello, Luigi Compagna, Carlo Giovanardi and Gaetano Quagliariello) left the NCD because they no longer supported its alliance with the PD. They were joined by two deputies, Guglielmo Vaccaro (ex-PD, now Unique Italy–IU) and Renata Bueno (South American Union Italian Emigrants–USEI), and several regional politicians, including Davide Bellomo (independent, Apulia), Stefano Casali (Tosi List for Veneto, Veneto), Gianni Chiodi (independent, former President of Abruzzo) and Vittoriano Solazzi (Marche 2020, Marche).[1][2][3][4][5]

Since its foundation, IdeA aimed at being part of a larger centre-right coalition:[2] Lelio Alfonso and Pino Bicchielli of IU[6] and Maurizio Gasparri of Forza Italia (FI)[2] attended to the party's first press conference, and there were also rumors that Quagliarello's group might soon join forces with Raffaele Fitto's Conservatives and Reformists (CR), Flavio Tosi's Act! (F!) and Mario Mauro's Populars for Italy (PpI): such an alliance could boast more than 20 deputies and 15 senators.[4][5][7]

The party established a particularly close relationship with IU: in the Senate Quagliariello became its speaker (while being also IdeA's leader) and the two parties are supposed to merge soon.[8][9][10][11] In the meantime, the four deputies of IdeA, along with Aniello Formisano of Italy of Values (IdV, a party which had long been part of centre-left coalitions), formed a sub-group, named after the USEI (and, later, "USEI–IdeA"), within the Mixed Group of the Chamber,[12][13] while the party's four senators joined the heterogeneous Great Autonomies and Freedom (GAL) group,[14][15] which included also the PpI.

References

  1. ↑ "Centrodestra, Quagliariello lancia "Idea". Alternativi a Renzi, guardando ai territori | l'Occidentale". loccidentale.it. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  2. 1 2 3 Car. Sol. "L'"Idea" di Quagliariello è puntare su Passera - Politica - iltempo". iltempo.it. Retrieved 2015-11-29.
  3. ↑ "Nasce Idea, il nuovo partito di Quagliariello - IlGiornale.it". ilgiornale.it. Retrieved 2015-11-29.
  4. 1 2 "Tutte le sintonie tra Fitto, Marchini, Passera, Quagliariello e Tosi - Formiche.net". formiche.net. Retrieved 2015-11-29.
  5. 1 2 "Ncd, Quagliariello lancia il quarto petalo. Cassano: "Voleva il Ministero" - Affaritaliani.it". affaritaliani.it. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  6. ↑ "Centrodestra: Quagliariello, ecco 'Idea' alternativa a Renzi". adnkronos.com. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  7. ↑ "Camera, Alfano perde pezzi: i deputati di Quagliariello emigrano nel gruppo Misto - Il Fatto Quotidiano". ilfattoquotidiano.it. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
  8. ↑ "Italia Unica in Parlamento - Italia Unica". Italiaunica.it. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  9. ↑ Altri articoli dalla categoria » (2015-11-30). "Italia Unica entra in Parlamento con Quagliariello e Vaccaro". Repubblica.it. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  10. ↑ 2 dicembre 2015 (2015-12-02). "Italia Unica, Passera: entriamo in Parlamento. Speaker e «intesa» con Quagliariello". Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  11. ↑ Redazione, L'Huffington Post. "Italia Unica, Corrado Passera arruola l'ex pd Guglielmo Vaccaro alla Camera. Al Senato "intesa" con Gaetano Quagliariello". Huffingtonpost.it. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  12. ↑ "XVII Legislatura - Deputati e Organi Parlamentari - Composizione gruppi Parlamentari". Camera.it. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  13. ↑ "Italiani all'estero, è ufficiale: nasce componente USEI (che pende a sinistra)". Italiachiamaitalia.it. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  14. ↑ "Composizione del Gruppo Grandi Autonomie e Libertà (Grande Sud, Popolari per l'Italia, Moderati, Idea, Euro-Exit, M.P.L.-Movimento politico Libertas)". senato.it. 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  15. ↑ "Senatori IDEA lasciano AP e formano componente in GAL | l'Occidentale" (in Italian). Loccidentale.it. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
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