Liberal Democratic Party (Italy, 2025)
Liberal Democratic Party Partito Liberaldemocratico | |
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| Abbreviation | PLD |
| Founded | 8 March 2025 |
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| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| Colors | Blue, Azure and Yellow |
| Chamber of Deputies | 1 / 400 |
| Senate | 0 / 200 |
| European Parliament | 0 / 76 |
| Website | |
| partitoliberaldemocratico | |
The Liberal Democratic Party (Italian: Partito Liberaldemocratico, PLD) is a liberal political party in Italy.
History
[edit]Marattin and Costa's manifesto
[edit]As both Action and the electoral list United States of Europe — a joint list led primarily by Italia Viva and More Europe — failed to meet the electoral threshold at the 2024 European Parliament election in Italy, thus not electing any MEPs, Luigi Marattin (Italia Viva) and Enrico Costa (Action) published a letter on Change.org advocating for the creation of a unitary party to represent liberal voters in Italy. They emphasized that the party's leadership should be fairly contestable and that the party's political stance should remain independent from both the centre-right and the centre-left.[1] Following his party's defeat in the European election, Italia Viva's leader, Matteo Renzi, announced that the "Third Pole" instead be led by a third person. However, he later joined the centre-left coalition.[2][3] Marattin condemned Renzi's statement, arguing that such a decision should be made by the party congress.[4] In September, Marattin left Italia Viva and founded a political association called Liberal Horizons, with the goal of creating a roadmap for the establishment of a unitary liberal party, together with NOS, led by Alessandro Tommasi, and the European Liberal Democrats, led by Andrea Marcucci.[5] A few days later, Costa left Action, after Carlo Calenda formed an alliance with the centre-left and the Five Stars Movement for the 2024 Ligurian regional election, and rejoined his former party, Forza Italia.[6]
Party foundation
[edit]On 22 and 23 November, a convention in Milan called "The Courage to Go", marked the birth of the so-called "Libdem Constituent (Assembly)", composed by LDE, Liberal Horizons, NOS, the Liberal Forum, and the Reformist Ecologist Pact (PER).[7] On 8 March 2025, the party was officially launched at a convention in Rome, where the party's name and logo were unveiled, and it was announced that the founding congress would be held in June.[8][9]
Composition
[edit]| Parties | Main ideology | Leader(s) | |
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| European Liberal Democrats (LDE) | Liberalism | Andrea Marcucci | |
| Liberal Forum (LF) | Liberalism | Piero Ruggi | |
| NOS | Liberalism | Alessandro Tommasi | |
| Liberal Horizons (OL) | Liberalism | Luigi Marattin | |
References
[edit]- ^ "L'appello di Marattin e Costa per ricostruire il Terzo Polo: "Via i personalismi, serve un progetto politico"". www.ilfoglio.it (in Italian). 2 July 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Renzi rilancia il Terzo Polo: in autunno un congresso per una nuova unità". www.ilfoglio.it (in Italian). Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Renzi: «Io, Elly Schlein e quell'abbraccio in campo. L'alleanza è possibile, anche con Conte»". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 18 July 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Italia viva, Renzi apre a Pd e M5S. Marattin: decida un congresso". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 19 July 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Marattin lascia Italia viva: "Campo largo scelta sbagliata nel merito e nel metodo"". www.ilfoglio.it (in Italian). Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Enrico Costa lascia Azione e va in Forza Italia: "Calenda si allea con chi ha criticato le mie proposte sulla giustizia"". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). 16 September 2024. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ Torchiaro, Aldo (22 November 2024). "Terzo Polo, riparte il cantiere. Al via la Costituente Libdem: dalla giornata delle idee a quella delle decisioni". Il Riformista (in Italian). Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ "Nasce l'8 marzo a Roma il partito liberaldemocratico". www.ilfoglio.it (in Italian). Retrieved 13 April 2025.
- ^ Facchetti, Beppe (25 March 2025). "Il Partito Liberaldemocratico dovrà essere coraggioso e controcorrente". Linkiesta.it (in Italian). Retrieved 13 April 2025.