Partiti politici Info
- Partiti politici
- Italy continues to have a problem with grouping political tendencies into a few large parties. There are still a large number of Italian political parties, divided into three broad areas: left, right and centre. The centre was the cornerstone of political life in the “First Republic”, but is divided nowadays: some minor Catholic parties (La Margherita, UDC, Udeur) line up with the left, in the alliance called L'Ulivo (the Olive Tree) and then L'Unione (the Union), others with the right, in the alliance called the Casa delle Libertà (House of Liberties). On the left are the Democratici di sinistra (DS), the ex-Communists who have abandoned Marxism, the more radical Partito della rifondazione comunista (PRC) and the Ecologists, the “Greens”. On the right the Alleanza Nazionale (AN), the ex-Neofascist party, and the Lega Nord (Northern League) with its separatist and xenophobic tendencies. Forza Italia (FI), the large centre-right party, has brought together ex-Christian Democrats, Socialists and Liberals.