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Italian National Party
Leader	Antonio Di Pietro
Founded	March 21, 1998
Headquarters	Via Principe Eugenio, 31­ 00185 Rome
Coalition	The Union
Political ideology	Populism, Centrism
International affiliation	none
European affiliation	European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party
European Parliament Group	Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe
Membership	unknown
Official newspaper	Orizzonti Nuovi
Website	http://www.italiadeivalori.it
See also	Politics of Italy Political parties in Italy Elections in Italy

Italy of Values (Italia dei Valori, IdV) is a populist and anti-corruption political party in Italy, headed by former Mani Pulite magistrate Antonio Di Pietro. The party is a member of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR).

Antonio Di Pietro was Minister of Public Works in the Prodi I Cabinet from 1996 to 1997. In 1998 he was elected Senator in a by-election in a Democrats of the Left stronghold in Tuscany and set up his own Italy of Values party, alongside with Willer Bordon of the Democratic Union. In 1998 Di Pietro led it into The Democrats, a new party fouded by Romano Prodi with the goal of the transformation of The Olive Tree in a single "Democratic" party.

In the 1999 European Parliament election The Democrats scored 7.7% and Di Pietro was elected MEP. After having been organizational secretary and speaker in the Senate for the party, Di Pietro left it in April 2000 because of his opposition to the nomination of Giuliano Amato, a long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party (which was the principal subject of investigation of Di Pietro when magistrate) at the time close to the Democrats of the Left. Shortly afterwards Di Pietro set up againg Italy of Values.

IdV founght the 2001 general election alone on a populist platform, comprising tough management of illegal immigration and protest against waste of public money. Anyway, the campaign focused principally against Silvio Berlusconi, who was Prime Minister candidate for the centre-right House of Freedoms. The party scored 3.9% in the election for the Chamber of Deputies and obtained no seats, while electing one Senator, Valerio Carrara, who soon left the party and switched to Forza Italia, Berlusconi's party.

In the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections he teamed up with one-time communist leader Achille Occhetto to run as Società Civile Di Pietro–Occhetto. The list gained 2.1% of the popular vote, and both men were elected Members of the European Parliament; Occhetto immediately renounced to his seat in favour of the communist journalist Giulietto Chiesa.

In early 2006 Leoluca Orlando, former mayor of Palermo, joined the party. In the 2006 general elections, IdV, this time member of the winning centre-left The Union, scored 2.1% and Di Pietro was sworn in as Minister for Infratructures in Prodi II Cabinet.

While the party is currently member of the centre-left coalition, its members had been very diverse ideologically, ranging from the far-left (i.e. Franca Rame) to the righ-wing (at some extent Di Pietro himself), thanks to the populist message of the party. The party is a supporter of legality, law and order, the armed forces, a first-past-the-post, constitutional reforms toward a two-party system, corporate reform, lowering the costs of politics, improving the efficiency of public services, fighting corruption, simplifying trials burocracy to achieve faster verdicts and regulating conflict of interest.

Notwithstanding its affiliation to ELDR, the party is rarely regarded as liberal in Italy, due to its justicialist and populist tendencies. The party is the most centrist party in the centre-left and sometimes, despite its harsh criticism of Berlusconi, it switches sides in Parliament on some key-issues. Di Pietro, after that he was refused to enter the Democratic Party and before a row with Clemente Mastella, even proposed an electoral list between its party, the UDEUR Populars and the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats. Di Pietro had also ruled out future alliances with the far left (Federation of the Greens, Party of Italian Communists and Communist Refoundation Party), as the current one in which IdV is engaged, and confirmed his interest for a close collaboration with the Democratic Party, provided to it is to refuse an alliance with the far left too.

• President: Antonio Di Pietro (2000–...)
• Spokesman: Elio Veltri (2000–2002), Giorgio Calò (2002–2005), Nello Formisano (2005–2006), Leoluca Orlando (2006–...)

• Official website

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The Union	Democratic Party – Communist Refoundation Party – Democratic Left Minor: Party of Italian Communists – Federation of the Greens – Italy of Values – Socialist Party – UDEUR Populars – Italian Radicals Micro: Liberal Democrats – Democratic Union – Critical Left – Italian Democratic Socialist Party – Citizens' Political Movement Regional: South Tyrolean People's Party – Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party – Valdotanian Renewal
House of Freedoms	Forza Italia – National Alliance – Union of Christian and Centre Democrats – Lega Nord Minor: The Right – Christian Democracy for the Autonomies – Movement for Autonomy – Pensioners' Party – Tricolour Flame – Social Action Micro: Italian Republican Party – Liberal Reformers – New Italian Socialist Party – Italians in the World Regional: Veneto for the EPP – Sardinian Reformers – Sardinian People's Party – Sardinian Democratic Union – New Sicily
Others	Micro: Italian Associations in South America – Socialist Party – Decide! Regional: Valdotanian Union – Edelweiss Aosta Valley – Autonomist Federation – Union for South Tyrol – The Libertarians – North-East Project – Sardinian Action Party Complete list
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