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Italian Republican Party Partito Repubblicano Italiano | |
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| Abbreviation | PRI |
| Secretary | Corrado De Rinaldis Saponaro |
| President | Vacant |
| Founded | 21 April 1895 |
| Split from | Historical Far Left |
| Headquarters | Via Euclide Turba, 38 00186, Rome |
| Newspaper | La Voce Repubblicana |
| Youth wing | Republican Youth Federation |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| European affiliation | ELDR (1976–2010) |
| European Parliament group | ELDR (1979–2004) |
| Colours | Green |
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The Italian Republican Party (Italian: Partito Repubblicano Italiano, PRI) is a political party in Italy established in 1895, which makes it the oldest political party still active in the country. The PRI identifies with 19th-century classical radicalism,[1] as well as Mazzinianism,[2][3] and its modern incarnation is associated with liberalism,[4][5][6] social liberalism,[7] and centrism.[8] The PRI has old roots and a long history that began with a left-wing position,[9] being the heir of the Historical Far Left and claiming descent from the political thought of Giuseppe Mazzini and Giuseppe Garibaldi.[10] With the rise of the Italian Communist Party and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) to its left, it was associated with centre-left politics.[11][12] The early PRI was also known for its anti-clerical, anti-monarchist, republican, and later anti-fascist stances.[13] While maintaining those traits, during the second half of the 20th century the party moved towards the centre on the left–right political spectrum, becoming increasingly economically liberal.[14]
After 1949, the PRI was a member of the pro-NATO alliance formed by Christian Democracy (DC), the Italian Democratic Socialist Party, and the Italian Liberal Party (PLI), enabling it to participate in most governments of the 1950s, a period later known as Centrism. In 1963, the party helped bring together DC and PSI in Italy's first centre-left government, the Organic centre-left. Although small in terms of voter support, the PRI was influential thanks to leaders like Eugenio Chiesa, Giovanni Conti, Cipriano Facchinetti, Randolfo Pacciardi, Oronzo Reale, Ugo La Malfa, Bruno Visentini, Oddo Biasini and Giovanni Spadolini.[15] The latter served as Prime Minister of Italy in 1981–1982, the first non Christian Democrat since 1945. From 1976 to 2010, the PRI was a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), along with the PLI, and the two parties usually ran together in European Parliament elections. After joining the centrist Segni Pact in 1994, the PRI was part of the centre-left coalition from 1996 to 2006, and then of the centre-right coalition from 2008 to 2013 (its leader Giorgio La Malfa was minister in 2005–2006). Afterwards, it ran alone until joining the centrist Action – Italia Viva in 2022.
- ^ Vít Hloušek, Lubomír Kopecek, ed. (2010). Origin, Ideology and Transformation of Political Parties: East-Central and Western Europe Compared. Routledge. p. 108.
- ^ PRI (1968). Edizioni della Voce (ed.). Il XXIX [i. e. Ventinovesimo] Congresso nazionale del Partito repubblicano italiano: Atti e risoluzioni. Roma, 25-28 marzo 1965.
- ^ Silvio Berardi (2016). Sapienza Università Editrice (ed.). Il socialismo mazziniano: Profilo storico-politico. ISBN 9788898533817.
- ^ Gary Marks; Carole Wilson (1999). "National Parties and the Contestation of Europe". In T. Banchoff; Mitchell P. Smith (eds.). Legitimacy and the European Union. Taylor & Francis. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-415-18188-4. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
- ^ Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko; Matti Mälkiä (2007). Encyclopedia of Digital Government. Idea Group Inc (IGI). p. 389. ISBN 978-1-59140-790-4. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ^ "Sovranisti contro Repubblicani, i poli ai tempi del governo giallo-verde". AGI.it. 1 June 2018.
- ^ Hans Slomp (2011). Europe, A Political Profile: An American Companion to European Politics. ABC-CLIO. p. 403. ISBN 978-0-313-39182-8.
- ^ Gregory R. Copley; International Strategic Studies Association (1994). Defense & Foreign Affairs Handbook. Copley & Associates. p. 586. ISBN 9780960593293.
- ^ Berardi, Silvio (2017). Five Years of Edera: The Italian Republican Party in Search of a New Identity (1943–1948). Rome: Edizioni Nuova Cultura. p. 228. ISBN 978-8-868-12829-6.
... there were many who believed the teachings of the Genoese patriot could be compatible with the Marxist doctrine and ... considered an alliance with the left-wing to be legitimate and desirable.
- ^ Cinzia Padovani (2007). A Fatal Attraction: Public Television and Politics in Italy. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-7425-1950-3. Retrieved 24 July 2013.
- ^ Cinzia Padovani (2005). A Fatal Attraction: Public Television and Politics in Italy. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 262. ISBN 978-0-74-251950-3.
- ^ Fabio Padovano; Roberto Ricciuti (2007). Italian Institutional Reforms: A Public Choice Perspective. Springer New York. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-38-772141-5.
- ^ Mark Donovan (2002). "The fate of the secular Centre: The Liberals, Republicans and Social Democrats". In Stephen Gundle; Simon Parker (eds.). The New Italian Republic: From the Fall of the Berlin Wall to Berlusconi. Routledge. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-134-80790-1.
- ^ "la Repubblica: storia d'Italia dal '45 ad oggi, centrismo (1947-1962)". Storia XXI Secolo (in Italian).
- ^ Frank J. Coppa, ed., Dictionary of modern Italian history (Greenwood, 1985) pp 210–211.