Pact for Italy

The alliance was composed of the Italian People's Party (PPI), the main successor party to Christian Democracy, the Segni Pact,{{cite book|author1=Guido Ortona|author2=Stefania Ottone|author3=Ferruccio Ponzano|chapter=A simulative assessment of the Italian electoral system|editor1=Fabio Padovano|editor2=Roberto Ricciuti|title=Italian Institutional Reforms: A Public Choice Perspective: A Public Choice Perspective|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9vcZor2k55AC&pg=PA34|year=2007|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-0-387-72141-5|page=34}} the Liberal Democratic Union of Valerio Zanone and remnants of the Italian Republican Party (PRI), alongside a certain number of independent politicians coming from the Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party.{{cite book|author=Stephen P. Koff|title=Italy: From the 1st to the 2nd Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jdqFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA71|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-64369-1|page=71}}

Originally Lega Nord was to also join the alliance, but Lega Nord leader Umberto Bossi decided to join Silvio Berlusconi's Pole of Freedoms instead.{{cite book |first1=Giorgio |last1=Galli |title=I partiti politici italiani |year=2001 |publisher=BUR |location=Milan |pages=394–395}}{{cite book |first1=Adalberto |last1=Signore |first2=Alessandro |last2=Trocino |title=Razza padana |year=2008 |publisher=BUR |location=Milan |pages=79–82}}

The alliance finished third place in the 1994 general election, behind the centre-right Pole of Freedoms/Pole of Good Government and the left-wing Alliance of Progressives. The alliance returned 33 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.{{cite book|author1=Aldo di Virgilio|author2=Steven R. Reed|chapter=Nominating Candidates Under New Rules in Italy and Japan: You Cannot Bargain with Resources You Do Not Have|editor1=Daniela Giannetti|editor2=Bernard Grofman|title=A Natural Experiment on Electoral Law Reform: Evaluating the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UWqqwBExassC&pg=PA83|year=2011|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4419-7228-6|page=83}}

After the election, the alliance was disbanded. The PPI suffered a split of those who wanted to join Berlusconi's centre-right coalition (breaking from the PPI and forming the United Christian Democrats of Rocco Buttiglione) and those who wanted to ally with the left-wing Democratic Party of the Left (PDS).{{cite book|editor=Gino Moliterno|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Italian Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4wOGAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA852|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-75877-7|page=852}} The remaining PPI joined the PDS in the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree led by Romano Prodi. Segni Pact become a minor force and formed the Pact of Democrats joint electoral list with Italian Renewal and the Italian Socialists for the 1996 general election in support of The Olive Tree.{{cite book|author=André Krouwel|title=Party Transformations in European Democracies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQUAAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA323|year=2012|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-4481-9|page=323}} The Italian Republican Party and the Liberal Democratic Union joined PPI's list Populars for Prodi, also in support for The Olive Tree.{{Cite book |last1=Bull |first1=Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-5sAAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA102 |title=Crisis and Transition in Italian Politics |last2=Rhodes |first2=Martin |date=1997 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-135-22274-1 |pages=102–103 |language=en}}

It was composed of the following political parties:

The Pact was also joined by a number of former members of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI), now running as independents, such as Giuliano Amato{{Cite news |date=13 February 1994 |title=In cinque punti il programma del Patto per l'Italia |work=Corriere della Sera |url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1994/febbraio/13/cinque_punti_programma_del_Patto_co_0_9402136487.shtml}} and Giulio Tremonti.{{Cite news |date=26 March 1994 |title=Tremonti e Martino: amici ma avversari |work=Corriere della Sera}}

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