Daisy Civic List
Civica Margherita
LeaderLorenzo Dellai, Giorgio Lunelli
Founded1998 (1998)
Dissolved2008 (2008)+
Merger ofItalian People's Party
Italian Renewal
United Christian Democrats
Succeeded byUnion for Trentino
(de facto)
IdeologyRegionalism
Christian democracy
Political positionCentre[1]

The Daisy Civic List (Italian: Civica Margherita) was a regionalist, Christian democratic, centrist[1] Italian political party active in Trentino.

History

It was founded in 1998 by Lorenzo Dellai and other local politicians active in several centrist parties,[2] both from the centre-left and the centre-right at the national level, as the Italian People's Party, Italian Renewal, the United Christian Democrats and splinters from the Christian Democratic Centre.

In the 1998 provincial election the Civica won 22.0% of the vote and Dellai was appointed President of the Province of Trento, at the head of a centre-left coalition, along with two major allies: the Democrats of the Left (DS) and the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (PATT).

Taking example from Trentino[3] and bordering Veneto, where Massimo Cacciari formed a similar list named Together for Veneto for the 2000 regional election, four centre-left parties united to form Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL) in 2001. Since that moment, the Daisy Civic List became the provincial section of the national party with the similar name, although maintaining some of its autonomy and peculiarities. In particular it was more conservative and than national DL, because of its explicit characterization as a Christian-democratic party.[4]

In the 2003 provincial election the party won 25.9% of the vote and its leader Lorenzo Dellai was re-elected by a landslide: 60.8% compared to 30.7% of his major opponent, Carlo Andreotti.[5][6][7][8]

In 2007, when DL merged with the DS, although most of the members of the Daisy Civic List joined the new Democratic Party (PD), they rejected the merge at the regional level, where Civica and the DS continued to act as distinct parties.[9]

In 2008 Trentino centrists decided to retain a double party affiliation: to the PD at the national level, to the Daisy at the regional one,[9][10][11] and Giorgio Lunelli, the party coordinator, declared that the Daisy would not join the Democratic Party "neither today, nor after the [provincial] election, never".[12]

After the defeat of the centre-left in Trentino in the 2008 general election,[13] Daisy was divided among those who wanted to continue on the road toward the consolidation of the regional party and those who wanted to establish the provincial PD along with the local Democrats of the Left.[14][15][16] On 30 April the party decided both the merger into PD and the creation of a new regional party federated with it, as supported by both Dellai and Lunelli.[17][18]

Daisy thus suffered the separation of the "Democrats" from the "regionalists".[19] Dellai, Lunelli, supported by former Senator Mauro Betta and eight provincial deputies out of twelve, decided to take part to the foundation of the regionalist party, while Senator Claudio Molinari and Deputy Letizia De Torre decided to join the PD.[20] The new regionalist party, named Union for Trentino (UpT), was launched on 7 June,[21][22] while the provincial PD was established on 8 June.[23] With the foundation of UpT the Daisy ceased to exist.

Popular support

The electoral results of the Civica in the Province of Bolzano since 1998 are shown in the table below.

1998 provinc. 1999 European 2001 general 2003 provinc. 2004 European 2006 general 2008 general
22.0 20.9[24] 16.7[25] 25.9 -[26] -[26] -[27]

References

  1. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2008). "Trento/Italy". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 27 April 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2008.
  2. ^ "- la Repubblica.it". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  3. ^ "Archivio Corriere della Sera". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  4. ^ "Civica Margherita del Trentino". Archived from the original on 8 December 2007. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Untitled Document". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Consiglio PAT - Gruppi consiliari". Archived from the original on 2007-12-02. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
  7. ^ "Provincia Autonoma di Trento - Presidente - Carta d'identità". Archived from the original on 2008-02-28. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
  8. ^ "Molinari sceglie il Pde il Patt sbatte la porta - Cronaca - Trentino Corriere Alpi". 6 May 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  9. ^ a b "Lo strappo di Dellai:No al partito democratico - Cronaca - Trentino Corriere Alpi". 16 July 2007. Archived from the original on 6 March 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  10. ^ "Civica Margherita del Trentino". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  11. ^ "Uno tsunami su Dellai - Cronaca - Trentino Corriere Alpi". 15 April 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  12. ^ "Civica Margherita del Trentino". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  13. ^ Ministero dell'Interno - Elezioni della Camera dei Deputati Archived September 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  14. ^ "Alle Provinciali arriva il PdLunelli: Sconfitta, colpa mia - Cronaca - Trentino Corriere Alpi". 17 April 2008. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  15. ^ "Pd, Pacher acceleraSubito le primarie - Cronaca - Trentino Corriere Alpi". 18 April 2008. Archived from the original on 15 July 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  16. ^ "La sindrome Illyattanaglia la Margherita - Cronaca - Trentino Corriere Alpi". 18 April 2008. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  17. ^ "Civica Margherita del Trentino". Archived from the original on 3 July 2010. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  18. ^ "- l'Adige.it". Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  19. ^ "Pd, sarà il 15 giugnola data delle primarie - Cronaca - Trentino Corriere Alpi". 25 April 2008. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  20. ^ "LA Margherit.pdf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 22, 2011. Retrieved May 20, 2008.
  21. ^ Civica Margherita del Trentino Archived July 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  22. ^ "- l'Adige.it". Archived from the original on 9 April 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  23. ^ "Pd, boom di votantiPacher vince col 70 - Cronaca - Trentino Corriere Alpi". 9 June 2008. Archived from the original on 18 July 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  24. ^ This result refers to the combined result of The Democrats (11.5%) the Italian People's Party (6.0%), the United Christian Democrats (2.7%), Italian Renewal (0.7%) and the Democratic Union for Europe (0.1%) in the Province.
  25. ^ This result refers to the result of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy.
  26. ^ a b The Civica was part of The Olive Tree list.
  27. ^ The Civica was part of the list of the Democratic Party.

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