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This article contains a list of parliamentary groups in Italy.

Parliamentary groups representing a political party

Parliamentary groups since 1946.

Active parliamentary groups

	Chamber of Deputies	Senate of the Republic
Democratic Party Partito Democratico	2007–present	2007–present
Brothers of Italy Fratelli d'Italia	2013–present	2012–2013, 2018–present
Five Star Movement Movimento Cinque Stelle	2013–present	2013–present
Forward Italy Forza Italia	2013–present	2013–present
Lega Lega	2018–present	2018–present

Notes

Defunct parliamentary groups

	Chamber of Deputies^[a]	Senate of the Republic
Christian Democracy Democrazia Cristiana	1946–1994	1948–1994
Italian Communist Party Partito Comunista Italiano	1946–1991	1948–1991
Italian Socialist Party Partito Socialista Italiano	1946–1966, 1969–1994	1948–1966, 1969–1996
Common Man's Front Fronte dell'Uomo Qualunque	1946–1948	—
Italian Republican Party Partito Repubblicano Italiano	1946–1953, 1963–1994	1948–1953, 1979–1994
Labour Democratic Party Partito Democratico del Lavoro	1946–1948	—
Italian Liberal Party Partito Liberale Italiano	1947–1994	1948–1953, 1963–1976, 1992–1994
Italian Democratic Socialist Party^[b] Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano	1947–1966, 1969–1994	1948–1953, 1963–1966, 1969–1976, 1979–1992
Monarchist National Party Partito Nazionale Monarchico	1948–1959	1953–1958
Italian Social Movement Movimento Sociale Italiano	1953–1994	1953–1958, 1963–1994
People's Monarchist Party Partito Monarchico Popolare	1954–1959	—
Italian Democratic Party Partito Democratico Italiano	1959–1972	—
Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity Partito Socialista Italiano di Unità Proletaria	1964–1972	1964–1976
Radical Party Partito Radicale	1976–1987	—
National Democracy Democrazia Nazionale	1976–1979	1977–1979
Proletarian Democracy Democrazia Proletaria	1976–1978, 1983–1991	—
Proletarian Unity Party Partito di Unità Proletaria	1978–1983	—
Federation of Green Lists Federazione delle Liste Verdi	1987–1992	—
Democratic Party of the Left Partito Democratico della Sinistra	1991–1994, 1996–1998	1991–1994, 1996–1998
Communist Refoundation Party Partito della Rifondazione Comunista	1992–1998, 2001–2008	1991–1999, 2006–2008
Northern League Lega Nord	1992–2018	1992–2018
Federation of the Greens Federazione dei Verdi	1992–1994, 2006–2008	1996–2006
The Network La Rete	1992–1994	—
Christian Democratic Centre Centro Cristiano Democratico	1994–1998	1994–2001
Italian People's Party Partito Popolare Italiano	1994–2001	1994–2001
Forward Italy Forza Italia	1994–2008	1994–2008
National Alliance Alleanza Nazionale	1994–2008	1994–2008
Federalists and Liberal Democrats Federalisti e Liberaldemocratici	1994–1996	—
Federalist Italian League Lega Italiana Federalista	1995	1995–1996
United Christian Democrats Cristiani Democratici Uniti	—	1995–1998
Italian Renewal Rinnovamento Italiano	1996–1999	1996–2000
Democrats of the Left Democratici di Sinistra	1998–2006	1998–2006
Party of Italian Communists Partito dei Comunisti Italiani	1998–2001, 2006–2008	1998–1999
Democratic Union for the Republic Unione Democratic per la Repubblica	1998–1999	1998–1999
The Democrats I Democratici	1999–2001	—
Union of Democrats for Europe Unione Democratici per l'Europa	1999–2001, 2006–2008	1999–2001
European Democracy Democrazia Europea	—	2001
Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy Democrazia è Libertà – La Margherita	2001–2006	2001–2006
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e di Centro	2001–2013	2001–2008
Italy of Values Italia dei Valori	2006–2013	2008–2013
Democratic Left Sinistra Democratica	2007–2008	2007–2008
The People of Freedom Il Popolo della Libertà	2008–2013	2008–2013
Future and Freedom Futuro e Libertà	2010–2013	2010–2011
New Centre-Right Nuovo Centrodestra	2013–2018	2013–2018
Article One Articolo Uno	2017–2018	2017–2018
Civic Choice Scelta Civica	2013–2018	2013–2015
Left Ecology Freedom Sinistra Ecologia Libertà	2013–2018	—
Conservatives and Reformists Conservatori e Riformisti	—	2015–2017
Us with Italy Noi con l'Italia	—	2017–2018
Italy Alive Italia Viva	2019–2022	2019–2022
Together for the Future Insieme per il Futuro	2022	2022

Notes

^ 1946–1948: Constituent Assembly of Italy.
^ The party was established as "Socialist Party of Italian Workers" in 1947, it was variously named and was ultimately named "Italian Democratic Socialist Party" in 1952.

Parliamentary groups not representing a political party

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Active parliamentary groups

Mixed Group (Constituent Assembly / Chamber and Senate, 1946–present)
For the Autonomies (Senate, 2001–present)
Action – Italy Alive (Chamber and Senate, 2022–present)
Greens and Left Alliance (Chamber, 2022–present)
Us Moderates (Chamber, 2022–present)
Civics of Italy–Us Moderates (Senate, 2022–present)

Defunct parliamentary groups

Historical Right (Chamber, 1849–1913)
Historical Left (Chamber, 1849–1913)
Historical Far Left (Chamber, 1867–1904)
Dissident Left (Chamber, 1877–1887)
Autonomist Group (Constituent Assembly, 1946–1948)
National Democratic Union (Constituent Assembly, 1946–1948)
National Bloc of Freedom (Constituent Assembly, 1947–1948)
National Union (Constituent Assembly, 1947–1948)
Left Democratic Group (Senate, 1948–1953)
Democratic Group – Independents of the Left (Senate, 1953–1958)
Free–Social–Republican Group (Senate, 1953–1958)
Italian Social Movement–PNM/PDI (1958–1963)
Unified Socialist Party (Chamber and Senate, 1966–1969)
Independent Left (Senate, 1968–1992; Chamber, 1983–1992)
Italian Liberal Party–Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Senate, 1976–1979)
European Federalist Group (Chamber, 1987–1994)
Ecologist European Federalist Group (Senate, 1987–1992)
Proletarian Democracy–Communists (Chamber, 1991–1992)
Greens–The Network (Senate, 1992–1996)
Progressives (Chamber and Senate, 1994–1996)
Democratic Left (Senate, 1994–1996)
The Democrats (Chamber, 1995)
The Olive Tree (Chamber and Senate, 2006–2007)
Socialists and Radicals – Rose in the Fist (Chamber, 2006–2008)
Greens–Italian Communists (Senate, 2006–2008)
Christian Democracy for the Autonomies–New Italian Socialist Party (Chamber, 2006–2008)
Christian Democracy for the Autonomies–Movement for Autonomy (Senate, 2006–2008)
People and Territory (Chamber, 2011–2013)
National Cohesion (Senate, 2011–2013)
For the Third Pole (Senate, 2011–2013)
For Italy (Chamber, 2013–2014; Senate 2013–2014)
For Italy–Democratic Centre (Chamber, 2014–2016)
For Italy–Solidary Democracy (Chamber, 2016–2018)
Great Autonomies and Freedom (Senate, 2013–2018)
Popular Area (Senate, 2014–2017)
Civics and Innovators (Chamber, 2016–2018)
Federation of Freedom (Senate, 2017–2018)
Free and Equal (Chamber, 2018–2022)
Europeanists–MAIE–CD (Senate, 2021)
Constitution, Environment, Labour–PC–IdV (Senate, 2022)

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v t e Political parties in Italy
Chamber of Deputies	Brothers of Italy (118) Democratic Party (69) (incl. DemoS and CD) Lega (66) Five Star Movement (52) Forza Italia (45) (incl. NPSI) Action – Italia Viva Action [11] Italia Viva [10] Greens and Left Alliance Green Europe [6] Italian Left [4] Progressive Party [1] Us Moderates Us with Italy [3] Italy in the Centre [2] Coraggio Italia [1] Union of the Centre [1] More Europe (3) (incl. èViva) South Tyrolean People's Party (3) Animalist Movement (1) Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (1) South calls North (1) Valdostan Union (1)
Senate of the Republic	Brothers of Italy (66) Democratic Party (38) Lega (29) (incl. Fassa) Five Star Movement (28) Forza Italia (17) Action – Italia Viva Italia Viva [7] Action [4] Greens and Left Alliance Italian Left [3] Green Europe [1] Us Moderates Coraggio Italia [1] Union of the Centre [1] South Tyrolean People's Party (2) Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (1) Campobase (1)
European Parliament	Lega (24) Democratic Party (15) (incl. DemoS) Forza Italia (10) Brothers of Italy (8) Five Star Movement (6) Action – Italia Viva Italia Viva [1] Action [1] South Tyrolean People's Party (1)
Other parties in Regional councils	Aosta Valley Civic Network Edelweiss For Our Valley For Autonomy Mouv' Valdostan Alliance Piedmont Moderates Lombardy Renaissance Trentino Autonomy House La Civica Futura Trentino Popular Autonomists Trentino Project Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party Union for Trentino South Tyrol Team K Greens Die Freiheitlichen For South Tyrol with Widmann JWA List South Tyrolean Freedom La Civica Vita Veneto Liga Veneta Repubblica Friuli-Venezia Giulia Pact for Autonomy Slovene Union Abruzzo Political Action Molise Building Democracy Populars for Italy Campania Italy is Popular Italian Socialist Party Us of the Centre Apulia Popular Apulia Basilicata Identity and Action Sicily Christian Democracy Sicily Movement for Autonomy Sicilia Vera Sardinia Civic Sardinia Sardinia 20Twenty Sardinian Action Party Sardinian Reformers Possible
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v t e Historical political parties in Italy
Communist	Proletarian Unity Party (1972–1984) Italian Communist Party (1921–1991) Proletarian Democracy (1978–1991) Party of Italian Communists (1998–2014)
Democratic socialist	Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party (1881–1893) Italian Workers' Party (1882–1892) Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (1964–1972) Democratic Party of the Left (1991–1998) Democratic Left (2007–2010) Left Ecology Freedom (2010-2016)
Social-democratic	Italian Reformist Socialist Party (1912–1926) Unitary Socialist Party (1922–1930) Action Party (1929–1947) Unitary Socialist Party (1949–1951) Unified Socialist Party (1966–1969) Italian Socialist Party (1892–1994) Italian Democratic Socialist Party (1947–1998) Democrats of the Left (1998–2007) Italian Democratic Socialists (1998–2007) Article One (2017–2023)
Green	Rainbow Greens (1989–1990) Federation of Green Lists (1986–1990) Federation of the Greens (1990–2021)
Radical and social-liberal	Action Party (1853–1867) Italian Radical Party (1904–1922) Democratic Party (1913–1919) Constitutional Democratic Party (1913–1919) Italian Democratic Liberal Party (1919–1926) Social Democracy (1922–1926) Labour Democratic Party (1943–1948) Republican Democratic Concentration (1946) Radical Party (1955–1989) Democratic Alliance (1993–1997) The Network (1991–1999)
Centrist and liberal	Liberal Union (1913–1922) Democratic Union for the Republic (1998–1999) Union for the Republic Italian Renewal (1996–2002) The Democrats (1999–2002) Segni Pact (1993–2003) Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (2002–2007) Civic Choice (2013–2019) Liberal Popular Alliance (2015–2018)
Regionalist and federalist	Movement for the Independence of Sicily (1943–1951) Federalists and Liberal Democrats (1994–1996) Federalist Italian League (1995–1996) Great South (2011–2013)
Christian-democratic	Italian Catholic Electoral Union (1906–1919) Conservative Catholics (1913–1919) Italian People's Party (1919–1926) Christian Democracy (1943–1994) Italian People's Party (1994–2002) Christian Democrats for the Republic (1998) Christian Democratic Centre (1994–2002) United Christian Democrats (1995–2002) European Democracy (2001–2002) Christian Democracy for Autonomies (2005–2009) Union of Democrats for Europe (1999–2013)
Liberal-conservative	Economic Party (1919–1924) National Democratic Alliance (1953–1954) Italian Liberal Party (1922–1994) Forza Italia (1994–2009) The People of Freedom (2009–2013) Future and Freedom (2010–2014) New Centre-Right (2013–2017) Conservatives and Reformists (2015–2017) Direction Italy (2017–2019)
National-conservative	Common Man's Front (1946–1949) Monarchist National Party (1946–1959) People's Monarchist Party (1954–1959) Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity (1959–1972) National Democracy (1977–1979) National Alliance (1995–2009)
Nationalist	Italian Nationalist Association (1910–1923) Combatants' Party (1919–1923) National Fascist Party (1921–1943) Republican Fascist Party (1943–1945) Italian Social Movement (1946–1995)
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