Middle-of-the-Road Italy
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| Middle-of-the-Road Italy L'Italia di Mezzo |
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| Leader | Marco Follini |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Coalition | none |
| Political ideology | Centrism, Christian democracy |
| Website | www.italiadimezzo.it |
| See also | Politics of Italy |
Middle-of-the-Road Italy (Italian: L'Italia di Mezzo, IdM) is an Italian centrist political grouping founded in 2006 by Marco Follini, Senate member and former leader of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC, 2002-05), and Riccardo Conti, member of the Chamber of Deputies. Initially founded as a free political association in support of the "no" vote for the 2006 constitutional referendum, it became a party on October 21, 2006, after Follini announced his resignations from the UDC caucus.
The primary goal of this political movement is to attract all those voters who are unsatisfied by the Italian political system, based on the often harsh contrapposition between the centre-left Union and the centre-right House of Freedoms, and to change, or, better, to produce the end of bi-polarism.
The party is yet to contest an election, therefore its real electoral weight is currently unknown.