Radical Federative Movement

The Radical Federative Movement (Movimento Federativo Radicale, MFR) was a social-liberal political party in Italy.

The MFR was formed in November 1982 as a split from Marco Pannella's Radical Party (PR). The leader of the split was Giuseppe Rippa, a former national secretary of the Radicals, other participants were Franco De Cataldo, Silvio Pergameno, Gaetano Quagliariello and Valter Vecellio. The main reason of the split was that the dissenters wanted a stable alliance between the PR and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI), led by Bettino Craxi at the time.{{Cite web|url=http://www.radioradicale.it/organizzatori/movimento-federativo-radicale|title = Eventi organizzati da Movimento Federativo Radicale}}

A few years later, in 1985, the MFR was merged into the PSI and Rippa entered the party's national assembly.{{Cite web|url=http://www.termometropolitico.it/blog/la-scissione-piu-inutile-della-storia|title=La scissione più inutile della storia|date=10 October 2010}} Later on, both Rippa and Vecellio returned into the Radicals' fold, while Quagliariello followed many fellow Socialists into Forza Italia and, later, The People of Freedom.