- Pact for Italy
The Pact of Italy ("Patto per l'Italia") was a centrist electoral coalition in
Italy , launched byMario Segni andMino Martinazzoli in1994 .It was composed by the Italian People's Party and
Patto Segni and finished third in the 1994 general election, after the centre-rightPole of Freedoms /Pole of Good Government and the left-wingAlliance of Progressives .Originally also
Lega Nord was to join the alliance, butUmberto Bossi finally decided to joinSilvio Berlusconi 's Pole of Freedoms. A different decision by Bossi would have probably produced a different political system from that Italy had since 1994.After the election, the alliance was disbanded. The Italian People's Party suffered a split of those who wanted to join Berlusconi's centre-right (the
United Christian Democrats ofRocco Buttiglione ) and those who wanted to stick with the left-wingDemocratic Party of the Left . Patto Segni become a much minor force and formed a joint list, within the centre-left Olive Tree coalition, withItalian Renewal and theItalian Socialists for 1996 gnereral election
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