Popular Democrats

The Popular Democrats (Democratici Popolari, DP) was a Christian-leftist Italian political party active in the Aosta Valley of Italy. Its leading members included Cesare Dujany, Maurizio Martin and Angelo Pollicini.

The party emerged by a left-wing split (seven regional deputies out of 13) of regional Christian Democracy. Subsequently Popular Democrat leader Cesare Dujany became President of the Region at the head of a coalition composed of the Italian Socialist Party, the Valdotanian Rally and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. In the 1973 regional election DP won 22.4% of the vote and got elected eight regional deputies.

After the election Dujany was again President of the Region, this time with the support of the Socialists and the Progressive Valdotanian Union (UVP), but in 1974 he resigned and the Valdotanian Union returned in government.

In the 1979 general election, due to an electoral pact with UV, Dujany was elected to the Italian Parliament, where he served until 1996.

After a decline in term of votes (11.8% in 1978), DP joined forces with UVP in the 1983 regional election, winning 10.4%. In 1984 the two parties merged to form the Autonomists Democrats Progressives.

	Italian political parties (simple version, historical parties)
		Represented in the Italian Parliament or in the European Parliament	Other allied parties and movements
Left	Major:	Democratic Party | Italy of Values
	Minor:	Italian Radicals | Anticapitalist List (Communist Refoundation Party, Party of Italian Communists, United Consumers, Socialism 2000) | Federation of the Greens | Left, Ecology, Freedom (Movement for the Left, Unite the Left, Democratic Left, Socialism and Left, Ecologists) | Italian Socialist Party | United Socialists
	Micro:	Democratic Union for Consumers	Communists – Popular Left | Federation of Italian Liberals | Radicals of the Left | United Democratic Christians
	Regional:	Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party | South Tyrolean People's Party | Autonomy Liberty Democracy (Valdotanian Renewal, Lively Aosta Valley) | United Populars | Moderates for Piedmont	Autonomists for Europe | Convergence for Friuli | IDEA – List for Veneto | Lega Alleanza Lombarda | Ladin Autonomist Union | Liga Veneta Repubblica | Venetian People's Unity | Loyal to Trentino |
Right	Major:	The People of Freedom | Lega Nord | Future and Freedom
	Minor:	Pole of Autonomy (The Right, Movement for Autonomy, Pensioners' Party, Alliance of the Centre, Lombardia Autonoma, Autonomist Trentino, S.O.S. Italy) Liberal Democrats
	Micro:	Italian Liberal Party	Christian Democracy | Christian Extended Pact | No Euro Movement | Party of Social Democrats | United Pensioners | Libertarian Right | Movement for Italy | Federal Right
	Regional:	Federalist Alliance | North-East Project | Sardinian Reformers	Fassa | Sardinian People's Party | Sardinian Democratic Union | New Sicily | United Valleys | Venetian People's Movement
Minor	With MPs/MEPs:	Union of the Centre (Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, White Rose, Christian Democratic Party, Party of Christian Democracy, Veneto for the European People's Party, Democratic Populars) | Tricolour Flame Social Movement | Alliance for Italy (incl. Union for Trentino) | UDEUR Populars | Italian Associations in South America | Critical Left | For the Common Good (Citizens' Political Movement, Federation of Liberal Democrats, Humanist Party, Green Front) | Italian Democratic Socialist Party | Associative Movement Italians Abroad
	Regional:	Autonomy Progress Federalism (Valdotanian Union, Edelweiss Aosta Valley, Autonomist Federation) | Union for South Tyrol | The Libertarians | Political Movement Ladins | Democratic Party of South Tyrol | South Tyrolean Freedom | Friuli Movement | Sardinian Action Party | Independence Republic of Sardinia | Southern Action League | We the South | I the South Sardinia Nation | Red Moors | Movement for the Independence of Sicily | Lega Sud Ausonia | Ligurian Independentist Movement | Forum of the Venetians | Venetian Agreement | Venetian National Party | Party of the Venetians
	Other:
	christian democratic:	Christian Democratic Refoundation | I Love Italy | Italy of the Centre | Pact of Liberal Democrats
	libertarian:	Libertarian Movement
	monarchist:	Monarchist Alliance | Italian Monarchist Movement | Italian Monarchist Union | Values and Future with Emanuele Filiberto
	communist:	Italian Marxist-Leninist Party | Marxist-Leninist Italian Communist Party | Maoist Communist Party
	fascist:	New Force | National Social Front | Social Idea Movement