The Sammarinese Union of Moderates (, USDM) was a

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San Marino San Marino, officially the Republic of San Marino, is a landlocked country in Southern Europe, completely surrounded by Italy. Located on the northeastern slopes of the Apennine Mountains, it is the larger of two European microstates, microsta ...

. It was founded on 21 February 2008 and consisted of the Christian-democratic Sammarinese Populars and the national-conservative

Sammarinese National Alliance Sammarinese National Alliance (, ANS) was a national-conservative political party in San Marino. Its Italian counterpart was the National Alliance. In the 2006 general election ANS won 2.3% of the vote and 1 out of 60 seats in the Grand and Gener ...

, after a new electoral law introduced a

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of 3.5% (both parties were below that threshold in the 2006 general election). In the 2008 general election Sammarinese Union of Moderates ran within the centrist

Pact for San Marino Pact for San Marino () was a centrist coalition of parties for the 2008 general election in San Marino. It was composed of four lists for a total of eight parties: {, class=wikitable style=text-align:left , - !colspan=2, Party !Ideology !Electo ...

coalition. The electoral coalition won 35 seats out of 60 in the

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in the 2008 general election gaining 54.22% of the national vote and a governmental majority of 5, becoming the new government of San Marino. The Sammarinese Union of Moderates itself gained 2 seats and 4.17% of the national vote. The coalition was disbanded after the disastrous 2012 general election, where the alliance obtained solely 340 votes.

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