Cantiere Popolare (translatable into ''Popular Worksite'') is a

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, based in

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. The party's leader is

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, a former Sicilian leader of the Union of the Centre and, later, minister of Agriculture in

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's fourth government.

History

The CP was launched in January 2012 as an evolution of The Populars of Italy Tomorrow (PID), a Sicilian-based

emerged in 2010 as a split from the Union of the Centre (UdC). Other subjects ( Popular Action, the Christian Movement of Workers and the Extended Christian Pact) took part to the project.

, leader of the PID, went on to lead also the CP. In the 2012 Sicilian regional election, the CP won 5.9% of the vote and obtained four regional deputies. CP took part in the February 2013 general election, siding with the centre-right coalition, and got 0.1% of the votes. Nevertheless, thanks to an agreement with

The People of Freedom The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later t ...

(PDL) party, Francesco Saverio Romano managed to run in PDL's list and be elected as MP. In October 2013, CP became an associate party of the newly-constituted

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(FI). In 2015, Romano left FI and joined with the

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(ALA) parliamentary group, in support of the Renzi Cabinet. In the run-up to the 2017 Sicilian regional election, the CP returned into the

centre-right Centre-right politics is the set of right-wing politics, right-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. It is commonly associated with conservatism, Christian democracy, liberal conservatism, and conservative liberalis ...

's fold and teamed up with the

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(MpA) under the electoral list "''Populars and Autonomists''". The list won 7.1% of the votes, obtained five regional deputies and entered the regional government led by

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, the newly elected president. In December 2017, Romano broke with ALA and CP became one of the founding members of

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(NcI), a pro-

centrist electoral list within the centre-right coalition for the 2018 general election.

Electoral results

Sicilian Regional Assembly

Leadership

*President:

(2012–present) *Coordinator: Massimo Dell'Utri (2021–present)

References

External links

Official website
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