Reform Popular Centre was a centrist

Centrism

In politics, centrism is the ideal or the practice of promoting policies that lie different from the standard political left and political right. Most commonly, this is visualized as part of the one-dimensional political spectrum of left-right politics, with centrism landing in the middle between...

 coalition active in Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Friuli–Venezia Giulia is one of the twenty regions of Italy, and one of five autonomous regions with special statute. The capital is Trieste. It has an area of 7,858 km² and about 1.2 million inhabitants. A natural opening to the sea for many Central European countries, the region is...

 from 1998 to 2003.

The coalition was launched for the 1998 regional election

Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, 1998

The Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election of 1998 took place on 14 June 1998.Forza Italia, at its first appearance in a regional election, became the largest party with 20.6%, while Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia came second with 17.3%, but the combined score of all regionalist parties was...

 and comprised five parties:

• Italian People's Party (PPI)
• Democratic Union for the Republic
  Democratic Union for the Republic
  The Democratic Union for the Republic was a short-lived centrist political party in Italy.It was founded in February 1998 by Francesco Cossiga, Clemente Mastella , Rocco Buttiglione , Mario Segni The Democratic Union for the Republic (Unione Democratica per la Repubblica, UDR) was a short-lived...
  
   (UDR)
• Italian Renewal
  Italian Renewal
  The Italian Renewal was a liberal-centrist political party in Italy.It was founded in 1996 by Lamberto Dini along with some former Liberals, Socialists, Christian Democrats, Republicans and Social Democrats...
  
   (RI)
• Italian Republican Party
  Italian Republican Party
  The Italian Republican Party is a liberal political party in Italy.The PRI is party with old roots that originally took a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political position of Giuseppe Mazzini...
  
   (PRI)
• Slovene Union
  Slovene Union
  The Slovene Union is a centrist Italian political party representing the Slovene minority in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Its name in Slovene means literally "The Slovene Community", but the denomination "Slovene Union" is used in other languages....
  
   (SS)

At the time of the foundation of CPR, it was seen as a political laboratory for the country, in order to put together centrist parties of The Olive Tree, the centre-left governing coalition. Leading national politicians, including Franco Marini

Franco Marini

Franco Marini is an Italian politician and a prominent member of the centre-left Democratic Party. From 2006 to 2008 he was President of the Italian Senate.-Biography:...

, Clemente Mastella

Clemente Mastella

Mario Clemente Mastella is an Italian politician. He is currently leader of Popular-UDEUR, a minor centrist Italian party. He was Minister of Labour in the Berlusconi government from 10 May 1994 to 17 January 1995, and Minister of Justice in the Prodi government from 17 May 2006 to 17 January 2008...

, Rocco Buttiglione

Rocco Buttiglione

Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian Christian Democrat politician and an academic.His nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil liberties, resulted in controversy as some political groups opposed him for his Roman Catholic views on homosexuality, despite...

, Lamberto Dini and Giorgio La Malfa

Giorgio La Malfa

Giorgio La Malfa is an Italian politician.-Biography:La Malfa was born in Milan, the son of Ugo La Malfa, a long-time Italian political leader and minister....

.

In the regional election CPR won 11.0% and 7 regional deputies, but it failed to form an alliance with Forza Italia

Forza Italia

Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....

 and Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia is a regionalist political party in Italy which is the regional section of Lega Nord in Friuli-Venezia Giulia....

, due to difficulties in forming a new regional government and to internal divisions. Isidoro Gottardo was elected leader of the group.

By the 2003 regional election

Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, 2003

The Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election of 2003 took place on 8 June 2003.Riccardo Illy, a centre-left independent, who had been Mayor of Trieste, defeated Alessandra Guerra, leading member of Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia.-Results:Source:...

 the coalition was over, with most members who had joined Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL) and Isidoro Gottardo Forza Italia

Forza Italia

Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....

. DL was in fact a sort of continuation of CPR at the national level.