The Progressive People's Party of Christian Inspiration (''Partito Popolare Progressista di Ispirazione Cristiana''), also known as Progressive People's Party (''Partito Popolare Progressista'', shortened as PPP), was a

Christian-democratic Christian democracy is an ideology inspired by Christian social teaching to respond to the challenges of contemporary society and politics. Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well a ...

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active in

Molise Molise ( , ; ; , ) is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. Until 1963, it formed part of the region of Abruzzi e Molise together with Abruzzo. The split, which did not become effective until 1970, makes Molise the newest region in Ital ...

. Its leader and founder was Tonino Martino.

History

The party was founded in 1993 by the lawyer and

regional councillor of Molise Tonino Martino, disappointed by the proposals of the DC's National Secretary

Mino Martinazzoli Fermo "Mino" Martinazzoli (; 3 November 1931 – 4 September 2011) was an Italian lawyer, politician, and former minister. He was the last secretary of the Christian Democracy (Italy), Christian Democracy (DC) party and the first secretary of the ...

. In the 1995 regional election the party ran within the centre-right coalition in support of the candidacy of Quintino Pallante obtaining the 2.96% of the vote and Martino was re-elected at the Regional Council. In the 2000 regional election the party always ran within the centre-right coalition in support of Michele Iorio, obtaining the 2.18% of the vote and reconfirming its leader Martino at the Regional Council. Martino acted with a legal recourse against the outcome of election (ended with the victory of the centre-left candidate Giovanni Di Stasi) and in 2001 the TAR of Molise annulled the election for inherent vices, a sentence that was subsequently confirmed by the

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. The regional election was repeated in 2001 and this time the winner was Iorio. The PPP did not participate in this election. In 2002 Martino was candidate with the PPP for the presidency of the province of

Campobasso Campobasso (, ; ) is a city and ''comune'' in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Molise and of the province of Campobasso. It is located in the high basin of the Biferno river, surrounded by Sannio and Matese mountains. Campobas ...

, obtaining the 2,23% of the vote and remaining excluded from the provincial council. This was the last electoral contest in which participated the party. In 2013 the founder of the PPP Tonino Martino died.

References

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