Segni Pact
Patto Segni |
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Chairman | Mariotto Segni |
Founded | November 1993 |
Dissolved | June 2003 |
Preceded by | Populars for Reform |
Succeeded by | Pact of Liberal Democrats |
Headquarters | Rome, Italy |
Newspaper | La Voce |
Ideology |
Christian democracy Centrism Liberalism |
Political position | Centre |
National affiliation |
Pact for Italy (1994) Pact of Democrats (1995) The Olive Tree (1996–99) PS–AN (1999) |
European affiliation |
EPP (1994–1999) AEN (1999–2004) |
European Parliament group |
EPP (1994–1999) UEN (1999–2004) |
Colors | Yellow |
The Segni Pact (Italian: Patto Segni, PS), also called the Pact of National Rebirth (Patto di Rinascita Nazionale), was a Christian-democratic,centrist and liberal political party in Italy, named after Mario Segni.
The party was founded in 1993 by the Populars for Reform, a split from Christian Democracy (DC) in 1992 whose basic goal was electoral reform from proportional representation to plurality voting, and splinters from the Democratic Alliance (AD).
The party contested the 1994 general election within the Pact for Italy coalition, along with the Italian People's Party (PPI), and the PS leader Mario Segni was "candidate for Prime Minister". The PS included in its lists Republicans (Giorgio La Malfa, Alberto Zorzoli, Vittorio Dotti, Danilo Poggiolini and Carla Mazzuca Poggiolini), Liberals (Valerio Zanone, Pietro Milio and Luigi Compagna), Socialists (Giuliano Amato, Giulio Tremonti and Claudio Nicolini), Democratic Socialists (Enrico Ferri and Gian Franco Schietroma), and several former Christian Democrats (Mario Segni himself, Diego Masi, Gianni Rivera, Alberto Michelini, Enrico Indelli, Elisabetta Gardini, Michele Cossa, Livio Filippi, Vincenzo Viola, etc.).