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Secretary
  
Francesco Pionati

Founded
  
4 December 2008

Ideology
  
Christian democracy

Deputy Secretary
  
Mario Pietracupa

Split from
  
Union of the Centre

Headquarters
  
Via dei Prefetti, 46 Rome

Alliance of the Centre (Italian: Alleanza di Centro, AdC) was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.

It was founded in November 2008 by splinters from the Union of the Centre (UdC) who wanted to return to an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition and support his fourth government. Its leader was Francesco Pionati, deputy and formerly spokesman of the UdC.

At the 2009 European Parliament election AdC was part of The Autonomy, an electoral coalition including The Right, the Movement for the Autonomies and the Pensioners' Party, which gained 2.2% of the vote and no MEPs. In the 2010 general regional elections AdC ran its lists in a handful of regions, electing only one regional councillor in Pionati's homeregion, Campania (2.3%). In the 2011 Molise regional election the party got the 6.73% of the vote and 2 seats in the Regional Council.

On 20 January 2011 AdC was a founding component of Responsible Initiative, a centre-right group in the Italian Chamber of Deputies. In The parliamentary group, later renamed People and Territory, was disbanded in March 2013. October 2012, the balance of accounts of the People of Freedom (PdL) showed that the Alliance of the Centre had received € 80,000 of financial support from PdL.

Leadership

  • Secretary: Francesco Pionati
  • References

    Alliance of the Centre Wikipedia