The Movement of National Responsibility (''Movimento di Responsabilità Nazionale'', MRN) was a small

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led by

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Background

The party was founded on 9 December 2010 by three deputies coming from

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parties and headed to support the

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led by

Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; 29 September 193612 June 2023) was an Italian Media proprietor, media tycoon and politician who served as the prime minister of Italy in three governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a mem ...

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(ex- PD and ex-

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), Bruno Cesario (ex-PD and ex-ApI) and

(ex- IdV). On 14 December the three deputies voted in favour of Berlusconi in a close vote of confidence. In October 2011 the party had its first congress: Scilipoti was confirmed secretary and Cesario president. On 20 January 2011 the MRN was a founding component of

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, a

group in the

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. In October 2012, the balance of accounts of the People of Freedom showed that the Movement of National Responsibility had received €49,000 of financial support from PdL for posters advertising the MRN's founding congress. In 2013 the party joined

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Scilipotism

Scilipotism is a neologism that appeared in the spoken language in December 2010, after Domenico Scilipoti, elected in an opposition party (

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) left the party and started supporting the Berlusconi Government coalition. The neologism seems to describe such a sudden transformation of political ideas and, particularly, of Parliament position (in Italy known as ''il salto della quaglia'' – the jump of the quail) for uncertain personal reasons but, certainly, for the advantage of the new political side. A group of "scilipotists" made the Berlusconi Government surviving for about one more year. As per the ''

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'', '"Everybody says that I am crazy, but I don't care. They said the same to Ezra Pound," said Scilipoti during the seminar. Pound was confined to a U.S. mental hospital after the war.'

Leadership

*Secretary:

(2010–2013) *President: Bruno Cesario (2010–2013)

References

External links

Official website
{{Historical Italian political parties Defunct political parties in Italy