The Venetian People's Movement (Movimento Popolare Veneto, MPV) is a Christian-democratic

Christian Democracy

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 political party in Italy, based in Veneto

Veneto

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. Its leader is Francesco Piccolo

Francesco Piccolo (disambiguation)

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.

Similarly to the Liberal Populars

Liberal Populars

The Liberal Populars was a Christian-democratic Italian political party that is currently a faction within the larger The People of Freedom .-History:...

, MPV was founded in March 2008 by splinters of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) who wanted to continue the alliance with 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....

 and to participate to the foundation of the regional The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom

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 (PdL). Their leader was Francesco Piccolo, regional councillor and UDC regional leader at the time of the split. Also Carlo Bernini, former President of Veneto and Minister, and Mauro Fabris, leading member of the UDEUR Populars until March 2008, joined the party.

In the 2010 regional election

Venetian regional election, 2010

The Venetian regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010, as part of Italy's big round of regional elections.Luca Zaia, rising star of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, was elected President by a landslide. With the support of 60.2% of Venetians, he was the most voted President of Veneto since...

 the party will run in a joint list with Alliance of the Centre

Alliance of the Centre

Alliance of the Centre is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy.It was founded in November 2008 by splinters from the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats who wanted to return to an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition and support his fourth government...

 (reinforced by the entrance of a new group of splinters led by Iles Braghetto

Iles Braghetto

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, Flavio Silvestrin, Flavio Frasson and Luigi D'Agrò) and Christian Democracy. Piccolo, however, is a candidate in the list of the PdL.