New Pole for Italy

New Pole for Italy Nuovo Polo per l'Italia
Leader	Pier Ferdinando Casini
Founded	15 December 2010
Political position	Centre-right
Chamber of Deputies	80 / 630
Senate	25 / 315
European Parliament	9 / 73
Website
http://www.ilterzopolo.net/
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The New Pole for Italy (Nuovo Polo per l'Italia, NPI), better known as Third Pole (Terzo Polo) and less frequently as Pole of the Nation (Polo della Nazione), is a centre-right coalition of parties in Italy.

It was founded on 15 December 2010 both as an alternative to the centre-right coalition between The People of Freedom and Lega Nord led by Silvio Berlusconi and to the centre-left coalition between the Democratic Party and Italy of Values, led by Pier Luigi Bersani. Most NPI members are former supporters of Berlusconi, but there is also a relevant group of disillusioned Democrats.

Leading figures are Pier Ferdinando Casini (UdC), Gianfranco Fini (FLI), Francesco Rutelli (ApI) and Raffaele Lombardo (MpA).

Composition

The coalition includes:

• Union of the Centre (Unione di Centro, UdC)
  • ideology: Christian democracy, social conservatism
  • leader: Pier Ferdinando Casini
  • 38 deputies, 5 senators and 5 MEPs
• Future and Freedom (Futuro e Libertà, FLI)
  • ideology: Liberal conservatism, national conservatism
  • leader: Gianfranco Fini
  • 25 deputies, 7 senators and 3 MEPs
• Alliance for Italy (Alleanza per l'Italia, ApI)
  • ideology: Centrism, liberalism
  • leader: Francesco Rutelli
  • 7 deputies, 7 senators and 1 MEP
• Italian Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI)
  • ideology: Liberalism, Centrism
  • leader: Stefano De Luca
  • 5 deputies and 1 senator
• Movement for Autonomies (Movimento per le Autonomie, MpA)
  • ideology: Regionalism, Christian democracy
  • leader: Raffaele Lombardo
  • 4 deputies and 2 senators
• some independents:
  • Giorgio La Malfa (independent, ex-PRI), deputy
  • Maurizio Fistarol (Toward North, ex-PCI/PDS/Dem/DL/PD), senator
  • Nicola Rossi (independent, ex-DS/PD), senator
  • Luciana Sbarbati (PRI, ex-PRI/MRE/PD), senator