Democratic Republicans (''Repubblicani Democratici'', RD) was a minor liberal

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, led by Giuseppe Ossorio. The party was founded in 2004 by a splinter faction of the

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(PRI), who opposed the alliance with the centre-right

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coalition.

History

At the 2005 regional elections, the party presented its list only in

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, where it won 1.4% of the popular vote and Ossorio was re-elected to the Regional Council. In 2005, the party sided with The Union and contested the 2006 general election within the list of

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(IdV). Consequently, to this pact of federation, Ossorio was elected to the

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in his home region Campania and his seat in the IdV caucus. On 20 September 2007, Ossorio announced that the Democratic Republicans were joining the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) alongside fellow ex-PRI members of the European Republicans Movement (MRE). In 2010 the party returned into the PRI's fold.

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