With Monti for Italy ( it, Con Monti per l'Italia) was an

electoral coalition An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections. Ea ...

of political parties in Italy, formed for the 2013 general election to support the outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti and his reform plans. Its platform was based on Monti's manifesto titled "Change Italy. Reform Europe."

Formation and composition

The coalition was launched in December 2012 during the last month of the

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. It comprised the following parties: While the UdC and FLI were established parties, SC was formed in the run-up of the election by Monti. Its core consisted of Toward the Third Republic (VTR), a centrist outfit formed in November 2012 by the merger of

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's Future Italy (IF) with other centrist associations as Toward North (VN), established parties such as

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(UpT), and some leading figures from progressive Catholic ecclesial movements and trade associations, notably including minister

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of the

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, Andrea Olivero of the

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(ACLI) and Luigi Marino of Confcooperative. Beyond Riccardi, also ministers Renato Balduzzi and

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joined SC. Moreover, a number of individual representatives of the centre-left

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(PD) and centre-right

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(PdL) announced their defections to Monti's party. The partyless economist Monti presented the grouping as a civil movement and rejected the traditional notions of political left, right, or centre. Because of the particularities of Italy's electoral law, the coalition ran as an alliance of three constituent lists for the Chamber of Deputies (SC, UdC and FLI) and as a single list for the Senate. Monti has chosen business executive

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to assist him with examining the coalition's candidates.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Symbols

Scelta civica - Con Monti per l'Italia.png, Logo of "Civic Choice" list for the Chamber of Deputies (one of three constituent lists) Con Monti per l'Italia.png, Logo of the coalition's joint Senate list "With Monti for Italy"

References

{{Historical Italian political parties Defunct political party alliances in Italy