Italian Liberal Right
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Conservative liberalism
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Italian political party.
History
It was founded in 1994 as "Italian Liberal Right" (Destra Liberale Italiana, DLI) by members of the right-wingRight-wing politics
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of the Italian Liberal Party
Italian Liberal Party
The Italian Liberal Party was a liberal political party in Italy.-Origins:The origins of liberalism in Italy came from the so-called "Historical Right", a parliamentary group formed by Camillo Benso di Cavour in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia following the 1848 revolution...
. Leading members included Gabriele Pagliuzzi, Giuseppe Basini, Luciano Magnalbò and Saverio Porcari Lidestri. DLI soon allied itself with the national-conservative
National conservatism
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National Alliance
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(AN), of which it became the liberal faction. In 1994
Italian general election, 1994
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, 1996
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and 2001
Italian general election, 2001
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some members of DLI, including Pagliuzzi, Basini and Magnalbò were elected in the Italian Parliament
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for AN.
In 2001 Pagliuzzi and Basini left AN, due to their exclusion from party lists for the general election, and re-established DLI, renaming it Liberal Right – Liberals for Italy (Destra Liberale – Liberali per l'Italia, DL-LpI). Basini left DL-LpI in 2004 in order to join the re-established Italian Liberal Party
Italian Liberal Party
The Italian Liberal Party was a liberal political party in Italy.-Origins:The origins of liberalism in Italy came from the so-called "Historical Right", a parliamentary group formed by Camillo Benso di Cavour in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia following the 1848 revolution...
of Stefano De Luca, while Pagliuzzi remained in charge of party leadership. Magnalbò was Senator for AN until 2006 and then joined the new PLI in June 2007.
As of 2007 DL-LpI is little more than a tiny liberal political action committee
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. On 23 October, Eugenio Riccio (former member of the MSI
Italian Social Movement
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and then of AN) joined Pagliuzzi in a convention on the future of the party. The most likely options seem either a merge with The Right
The Right
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or with the Freedom People party. At the beginning of December the party decided to re-name itself as Italian Liberal Right, the original name of 1994.
In 2011 Pagluzzi led his group into The People of Freedom
The People of Freedom
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, the united centre-right party of Italy.
Ideology
DLI was a conservative-liberalConservative liberalism
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expousing a vigorous patriotism
Patriotism
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and a strong support for economic liberalism
Economic liberalism
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. These two elements put together can lead to classify the party's ideology as national liberalism
National liberalism
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. As heirs of the right-wing liberal tradition of Italy, DLI members were keen on supporting national identity
Nation
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and centralism
Centralization
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. Thus they strongly opposed any form of federalism
Federalism
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and proposed the abolition of the Regions
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, including those with special statute, and the Provinces
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in Italy.
Leadership
- President: Giuseppe Basini (1994–2004), Gabriele Pagliuzzi (2004–2011)
- Secretary: Gabriele Pagliuzzi (1994–2004)