Popular Agreement (, IP) was a small

political party in Italy This is a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861. Throughout history, numerous political parties have been operating in Italy. Since World War II no party has ever gained enough support to govern alone; thus, partie ...

led by

Giampiero Catone Giampiero Catone (born 1 June 1956 in Naples, Campania) is an Italian politician and journalist. Biography Giampiero Catone was born on 1 June 1956 in Naples. He graduated in Political Sciences at the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara ...

History

Popular Agreement was founded in November 2012 by the deputy Giampiero Catone, member of the centre-right parliamentary group People and Territory. The party was born from the merger of 12 small political parties and associations: the clubs "La Discussione", the Democratic Alliance (''Alleanza Democratica''), the Christian Democracy – Third Pole of the Centre (''Democrazia Cristiana – Terzo Polo di Centro''), the Rebirth of Christian Democracy (''Rinascita della Democrazia Cristiana''), the Italian Christian Democrats (''Cristiani Democratici Italiani''), the Libertarian Right (''Destra Libertaria''), The Lotus (''Il Loto''), The Tulip (''Il Tulipano''), the Christian League (''Lega Cristiana''), the Italian Movement Young Europeans (''Movimento Italiano Giovani Europei''), the Party of the Land (''Partito della Terra'') and the Italian Catholic Pole (''Polo Cattolico Italiano''). The party was also joined by Giuseppe Trieste, that was appointed National President of the party,

Vittorio Sgarbi Vittorio Umberto Antonio Maria Sgarbi (born 8 May 1952) is an Italian art critic, art historian, writer, politician, cultural commentator, and television personality. He is president of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rove ...

(appointed spokesman) and

Stefano Tacconi Stefano Tacconi (; born 13 May 1957) is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He is the only goalkeeper to have won all international club competitions, a feat he managed during his time with Juventus. At interna ...

(appointed Deputy President). Popular Agreement presented itself as the Catholic component of the

centre-right coalition The centre-right coalition () is a political alliance of political parties in Italy active under several forms and names since 1994, when Silvio Berlusconi entered politics and formed the party. It has mostly competed with the centre-left c ...

. The party participated in the general election of 2013 within the centre-right coalition 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 ...

, but it only received 0.08% of the vote and it didn't elect any MP.

References

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