Popular Liberalism recently known also as Liberal Union of the Centre (Unione Liberale di Centro, ULdC), is a liberal

Liberalism

Liberalism is the belief in the importance of liberty and equal rights. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally, liberals support ideas such as constitutionalism, liberal democracy, free and fair elections, human rights,...

 faction within The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom is a centre-right political party in Italy. With the Democratic Party, it is one of the two major parties of the current Italian party system....

, a political party in Italy.

The group is basically composed by those Liberals (former members of the Italian Liberal Party

Italian Liberal Party

The Italian Liberal Party was a liberal political party in Italy.-Origins:The origins of liberalism in Italy came from the so-called "Historical Right", a parliamentary group formed by Camillo Benso di Cavour in the Parliament of the Kingdom of Sardinia following the 1848 revolution...

, PLI) who decided to join Forza Italia

Forza Italia

Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....

 after the party's disbandment in 1994 and thus the continuation of the Union of the Centre. The faction was founded in 2003 by six Forza Italia's MPs: three former Liberals (Alfredo Biondi

Alfredo Biondi

Alfredo Biondi is an Italian politician and lawyer. In 1994 he served as Minister of Justice of the Italian Republic during the first cabinet chaired by Silvio Berlusconi.-Biography:...

, Raffaele Costa

Raffaele Costa

Raffaele Costa is an Italian politician. He has been President of the Province of Cuneo...

 and Valter Zanetta) and three former Christian Democrats

Christian Democracy (Italy)

Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....

 with a liberal streak (Roberto Rosso, Renzo Patria and Benedetto Nicotra) and has circles (the so-called "Citizen's Houses") all around Italy

Italy

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, especially in Piedmont

Piedmont

Piedmont is one of the 20 regions of Italy. It has an area of 25,402 square kilometres and a population of about 4.4 million. The capital of Piedmont is Turin. The main local language is Piedmontese. Occitan is also spoken by a minority in the Occitan Valleys situated in the Provinces of...

, home-region of Costa, Zanetta, Rosso and Patria.

External links

• Official website