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Pensioners' Party (Italy)

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{{Infobox political party

| colorcode = {{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}

| name = Pensioners' Party

| native_name = Partito Pensionati

| logo = Partito pensionati.png

| logo_size = 150px

| leader1_title = Secretary

| leader1_name = Carlo Fatuzzo

| leader2_title = President

| leader2_name = Giacinto Boldrini

| foundation = 19 October 1987

| dissolution =

| split = Pensioners' National Party

| headquarters = Piazza Risorgimento, 14 Bergamo

| membership_year=

| membership =

| ideology = Pensioners' interests
Single issue politics
Conservatism{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=04tTEAAAQBAJ&dq=party+of+pensioners+1987+2018&pg=PA318|title=Parties and Elections in Europe|year=2021|page=318|publisher=Books on Demand |isbn=9783754355848 }}

| position =

| national = The Union
(2005–2007)
House of Freedoms
(2007–2008)
The People of Freedom
(2008–2013)
Centre-right coalition
(2013–2022)

| international =

| european = European Democrats

| europarl =

| seats1_title = Chamber of Deputies

| seats1 = {{Composition bar|0|400|{{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| seats2_title = Senate

| seats2 = {{Composition bar|0|200|{{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| seats3_title = European Parliament

| seats3 = {{Composition bar|0|73|{{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| seats4_title = Regional
Councils

| seats4 = {{Composition bar|0|897|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| seats5_title =

| seats5 =

| website = [http://www.partitopensionati.it www.partitopensionati.it]

| country = Italy

}}

The Pensioners' Party (Partito Pensionati, PP) is a centrist Italian political party, whose aim is to represent the interests of pensioners.

History

The Pensioners' Party was founded in 1987 in Milan, and its current leader is Carlo Fatuzzo.

In the 2004 European Parliament election, it gained 1.1% of the national vote and elected its leader to the European Parliament, where he sits in the European People's Party–European Democrats group.

On 4 February 2006, the party joined The Union, the centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi, and was decisive in the result of the 2006 general election (the PP scored 0.9% and the centre-left won by a 0.1% margin), but soon after the election the alliance with the centre-left turned cold and tense. In the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani (Forza Italia, Vice President of the European People's Party), tried successfully to convince Fatuzzo to return to the centre-right coalition.

Finally, on 20 November 2006, Carlo Fatuzzo, in a press conference along with Antonio Tajani and Fabrizio Cicchitto (national deputy-coordinator of Forza Italia), announced that its party was re-joining the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition.

In the 2008 general election the Pensioners' Party presented its candidates into The People of Freedom, but it didn't gained any seat.

In the 2009 European Parliament election, the party ran as part of The Autonomy, an electoral coalition including The Right, the Movement for the Autonomies and the Alliance of the Centre.{{cite web |url=http://www.partitoladestra.com/?costante_pagina=polo_autonomia&id_lingua=2 |title=あがり症の対策方法について |access-date=19 May 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150604151622/http://www.partitoladestra.com/?costante_pagina=polo_autonomia&id_lingua=2 |archive-date=4 June 2015 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.irispress.it/Iris/page.asp?VisImg=S&Art=33035&Cat=1&I=null&IdTipo=0&TitoloBlocco=Italia&Codi_Cate_Arti=18 |title=Iris Press - EUROPEE: INSIEME MPA, ALLEANZA DI CENTRO, LA DESTRA, PENSIONATI |access-date=22 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006090338/http://www.irispress.it/Iris/page.asp?VisImg=S&Art=33035&Cat=1&I=null&IdTipo=0&TitoloBlocco=Italia&Codi_Cate_Arti=18 |archive-date=6 October 2011 }}

In 2012 the party enters for the first time in the Italian Parliament with one deputy, Lino Miserotti, who replaces the outgoing deputy Marco Airaghi, and with one senator, Giacinto Boldrini, who replaces the deceased senator Gianpiero Carlo Cantoni.

In the 2013 general election the Pensioners' Party ran with the Centre-right coalition, getting only the 0.16% of the vote for the Chamber and the 0.40% for the Senate.

In the 2018 general election the party signed a cooperation Agreement with Forza Italia and some members of the party were candidate in FI's lists, including party's secretary Carlo Fatuzzo, who was elected in the Chamber of Deputies.

Electoral results

=Italian Parliament=

class=wikitable
colspan=8|Chamber of Deputies
Election year

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

! +/–

! Leader

1992

| 220,509 (#14)

| 0.56

| {{Composition bar|0|630|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

1994

| 15,671 (#26)

| 0.04

| {{Composition bar|0|630|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

2001

| 68,439 (#17)

| 0.18

| {{Composition bar|0|630|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

2006

| 333,278 (#12)

| 0.87

| {{Composition bar|0|630|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

2008

| colspan="2" | into The People of Freedom

| {{Composition bar|0|630|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}{{efn|In 2012, the exponent of the Pensioners' Party Lino Miserotti replaces the outgoing deputy Marco Airaghi}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

2013

| 54,854 (#19)

| 0.16

| {{Composition bar|0|630|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

2018

| colspan="2" | into Forza Italia

| {{Composition bar|1|630|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|{{increase}} 1}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

{{notelist}}

class=wikitable
colspan=8|Senate of the Republic
Election year

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

! +/–

! Leader

1992

| 215,889 (#13)

| 0.65

| {{Composition bar|0|315|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

1994

| 250,637 (#7)

| 0.76

| {{Composition bar|0|315|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

1996

| 60,640 (#16)

| 0.19

| {{Composition bar|0|315|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

2001

| 78,572 (#15)

| 0.23

| {{Composition bar|0|315|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

2006

| 340,565 (#12)

| 1.00

| {{Composition bar|0|315|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

2008

| colspan="2" | into The People of Freedom

| {{Composition bar|0|315|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}{{efn|In 2012, the exponent of the Pensioners' Party Giacinto Boldrini replaces the deceased senator Gianpiero Carlo Cantoni}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

2013

| 123,457 (#13)

| 0.40

| {{Composition bar|0|315|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| {{center|Carlo Fatuzzo}}

2018

| {{center|–}}

| {{center|–}}

| {{Composition bar|0|315|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|–}}

| Carlo Fatuzzo

{{notelist}}

=European Parliament=

class=wikitable
Election year

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

! +/–

! Leader

1989

| 162,293 (#14)

| 0.47

| {{Composition bar|0|81|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|{{steady}} 0}}

| {{center|Carlo Fatuzzo}}

1999

| 233,874 (#17)

| 0.75

| {{Composition bar|1|87|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|{{increase}} 1}}

| {{center|Carlo Fatuzzo}}

2004

| 374,343 (#14)

| 1.15

| {{Composition bar|1|78|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|{{steady}} 0}}

| {{center|Carlo Fatuzzo}}

2009

| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | into The Autonomy

| {{Composition bar|0|72|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|{{decrease}} 1}}

| {{center|Carlo Fatuzzo}}

2019

| colspan="2" | {{center|into Forza Italia}}

| {{Composition bar|0|73|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

| {{center|{{steady}}}}

| {{center|Carlo Fatuzzo}}

=Regional Councils=

class=wikitable
Region

! Latest election

! # of
overall votes

! % of
overall vote

! # of
overall seats won

Abruzzo

! 2014

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|31|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Aosta Valley

! 2013

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|35|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Apulia

! 2015

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|51|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Basilicata

! 2013

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|21|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Calabria

! 2014

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|30|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Campania

! 2015

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|51|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Emilia-Romagna

! 2014

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|50|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Friuli-Venezia Giulia

! 2013

| 3,741 (#13)

| 0.9

| {{Composition bar|0|49|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Lazio

! 2013

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|50|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Liguria

! 2015

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|50|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Lombardy

!2018

| 20,259 (#13)

| 0.38

| {{Composition bar|0|80|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Marche

! 2015

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|31|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Molise

! 2013

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|21|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Piedmont

! 2014

| 13,837 (#12)

| 0.7

| {{Composition bar|0|50|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Sardinia

! 2014

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|60|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Sicily

! 2012

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|90|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Tuscany

! 2015

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|41|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Trentino-Alto Adige

! 2013

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|70|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Umbria

! 2015

| {{N/A}}

| {{N/A}}

| {{Composition bar|0|20|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

Veneto

! 2015

| 14,625 (#14)

| 0.8

| {{Composition bar|0|51|hex={{party color|Pensioners' Party (Italy)}}}}

References

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{{Political parties of Italy}}

Category:1987 establishments in Italy

Category:Political parties established in 1987

Category:Pensioners' parties

Category:The Autonomy

Category:Single-issue political parties in Italy