The Democratic Italian Movement (, MID) was a political party in Italy. The MID was founded in February 1995 by Sergio Berlinguer, a former diplomat who had been minister for Italians abroad in Berlusconi I Cabinet. A few months later the party formed a federation with the United Christian Democrats and in the run-up of the 1996 general election it was finally merged with Italian Renewal (RI), led by another former minister under Berlusconi,

Lamberto Dini Lamberto Dini (; born 1 March 1931) is an Italian politician and economist. He was the Director General of Bank of Italy from 1979 to 1994, Italian Minister of the Treasury, Minister of Treasury from 1994 to 1996, the 51st Prime Minister of Ital ...

. In the election two MID members, Aldo Brancati and Giovanni Bruni were elected to the

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and the

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, respectively, but both of them soon left RI (Brancati finally joined the Democrats of the Left, while Bruni Forza Italia).

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