Coraggio Italia

Coraggio Italia (lit. 'Courage Italy',[1] also translatable as 'Cheer up Italy', CI) is a liberal conservative political party in Italy, launched in May 2021.[2] Its president is Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of Venice, while its vice presidents are deputy Marco Marin, senator Gaetano Quagliariello and Giovanni Toti, president of Liguria.[3][4]

Coraggio Italia
PresidentLuigi Brugnaro
Vice President
Founded27 May 2021 (2021-05-27)
Split fromForza Italia
Ideology
Political positionCentre to centre-right
National affiliationCentre-right coalition
Colours  Magenta (official)
  Indigo (customary)
Chamber of Deputies
20 / 630
Senate
6 / 315
European Parliament
0 / 73
Conference of Regions
1 / 21
Regional Councils
14 / 897
Website
coraggioitalia.it

History

In February 2021, amid the formation of Mario Draghi's national unity government, Cambiamo! (C!), a liberal-conservative party led by Giovanni Toti, started to attract new members from the more centrist wing of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI).[5]

In May 2021, Toti and Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of Venice, announced the formation of a new political party mainly composed by outgoing members of FI,[6] as well as Gaetano Quagliariello's Identity and Action (already connected with C!), a splinter from the Five Star Movement (M5S), a splinter from the League (who later came back to her former party),[7] and three deputies previously affiliated with the centre-left Democratic Centre (CD).[8]

During the press conference in which he and Toti launched the new party, Brugnaro thanked Berlusconi, describing him as a "brave leader", but also added that the centre-right "has to move on, it is another era".[9]

Composition

Member parties
Party Main ideology Leader
Cambiamo! (C!) Liberal conservatism Giovanni Toti
Identity and Action (IDeA) Christian democracy Gaetano Quagliariello

Parliamentary groups
Party Main ideology Deputies Senators Total MPs
Cambiamo! (C!)[lower-alpha 1] Liberal conservatism 3 5 8
Identity and Action (IDeA)[lower-alpha 2] Christian democracy 0 1 1
Europeanists[lower-alpha 3] Liberalism 0 1 1
Others[lower-alpha 4] 17 1 18
Total 20 8 28
  1. Deputies Guido Della Frera, Manuela Gagliardi and Giorgio Silli; Senators Massimo Vittorio Berutti, Sandro Biasotti, Marinella Pacifico, Paolo Romani and Mariarosaria Rossi.
  2. Senator Gaetano Quagliariello, who is also a founding member of Cambiamo! (per official website).
  3. Senator Raffaele Fantetti.
  4. Deputies Maria Teresa Baldini, Raffale Baratto, Fabio Berardini, Michaela Biancofiore, Fabiola Bologna, Felice Maurizio D'Ettore, Carlo Ugo De Girolamo, Matteo Dall'Osso, Marco Marin, Stefano Mugnai, Martina Parisse, Guido Germano Pettarin, Elisabetta Ripani, Marco Rizzone, Gianluca Rospi, Cosimo Sibilia, Simona Vietina; Senator Andrea Causin.

Leadership
  • Leader in the Chamber of Deputies: Marco Marin (2021–present)

References
  1. "Our Campaigns - Political Party - Courage Italy (CI)".
  2. Coraggio Italia:Brugnaro,grazie al Cav, ma è altro tempo, ANSA
  3. Nasce Coraggio Italia, con Brugnaro e Toti subito 24 deputati. Forza Italia ne perde 12, la Repubblica
  4. "Nasce 'Coraggio Italia', nuovo progetto politico di Brugnaro e Toti". Adnkronos (in Italian). 26 May 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  5. Forza Italia: tre deputati lasciano e vanno con Toti, Adnkronos
  6. Giovanni Toti e Luigi Brugnaro presenteranno alla Camera il nuovo gruppo parlamentare “Coraggio Italia”, Il Post
  7. "XVIII Legislatura - Deputati e Organi Parlamentari - Composizione Gruppi parlamentari". www.camera.it (in Italian). Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  8. Nasce 'Coraggio Italia', nuovo progetto politico di Brugnaro e Toti, Adnkronos
  9. Coraggio Italia:Brugnaro,grazie al Cav, ma è altro tempo, Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
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