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Action – Italia Viva
Azione – Italia Viva
LeaderCarlo Calenda
Founded11 August 2022 (2022-08-11)
Dissolved19 October 2023 (2023-10-19)
IdeologyLiberalism
Pro-Europeanism
Political positionCentre
European affiliationEuropean Democratic Party
European Parliament groupRenew Europe
Colours Blue

Action – Italia Viva (Italian: Azione – Italia Viva; A–IV), informally known as the Third Pole (Italian: Terzo Polo), was a liberal and centrist parliamentary group and electoral list which ran in the 2022 Italian general election. The list was led by Carlo Calenda. During the 19th legislature, it named its parliamentary group Action – Italia Viva – Renew Europe in the Chamber and the Senate.

History

Following the resignation of Mario Draghi as Prime Minister of Italy and the call for a snap election, Carlo Calenda's Action (A) party signed on 2 August an alliance with Enrico Letta's Democratic Party (PD), the head of the centre-left coalition. On 6 August, the PD signed another pact with the Greens and Left Alliance (AVS), formed by Green Europe (EV) and Italian Left (SI), which had never supported Draghi's government. This caused tensions between Letta and Calenda. The latter, being a strong supporter of economic liberalism and nuclear power, considered impossible a coalition between his own party and the left-wing AVS. On 7 August, Calenda broke the alliance with the PD. On 11 August, Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva (IV) and A signed an agreement to create a centrist alliance led by Calenda, using IV's symbol to avoid the requirement to collect signatures for Calenda's party. Early August polls speculated that the formation of the Third Pole would not be influential in single-member constituencies but could cost the centre-left coalition votes in some competitive districts.

Despite Draghi's dismissal, Calenda and Renzi said they would push for Draghi to remain as prime minister, should they win enough seats. They also ran a pro-nuclear power and pro-regasification campaign as solutions for the ongoing energy crisis. In the general election on 25 September, the Third Pole obtained 21 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 9 seats in the Senate of the Republic, having polled about 8%. On 3 October, Calenda announced that the two parties would form a joint parliamentary group in the next parliament and start a federation between the two movements.

Establishing a joint electoral list and parliamentary groups was supposed to be the first step towards forming a unitary Italian liberal party. A first constituent assembly held in January 2023 resulted in promising results, with the attendance of many figures from that area and the definition of a formal path towards the merger. However, increasing tensions between the two groups and their leaders about the structure and leadership of the proposed unitary party developed into a crisis in April 2023, leading a halt in the merger negotiations. Despite the crisis looking like a schism, the two parties managed to maintain the joint parliamentary groups. It was later announced that talks with other liberal movements were still underway towards the creation of a joint list for the 2024 European Parliament election involving Renew Europe, potentially including More Europe. However, in the following months, the two parties did not reach an agreement regarding the upcoming European election and, on 19 October 2023, Renzi officially announced the formation of IV's own parliamentary groups, marking the end to the Action – Italia Viva alliance.

Composition

Main parties

Party Ideology Leader Seats
Chamber Senate
Action (A) Liberalism Carlo Calenda
12 / 400
4 / 200
Italia Viva (IV) Liberalism Matteo Renzi
9 / 400
6 / 200

Associate parties

Party Ideology Leader
Christian Democracy (DC) Christian democracy Renzo Gubert
Italian Republican Party (PRI) Social liberalism Corrado De Rinaldis Saponaro
Liberal Democratic Alliance for Italy (ALI) Liberism Flavio Pasotti
Social Democrats (SD) Social democracy Umberto Costi
Together Christian democracy Collective leadership

Regional partners

Party Region Ideology Leader
Sicilian Socialist Party (PSS) Sicily Social democracy Antonio Matasso

Former partners

Party Region Ideology Leader Member between Source
Popular Apulia (PP) Apulia Christian democracy Massimo Cassano 2022
Good Right (BD) Liberalism Filippo Rossi 2020 - 2023

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Election Leader Chamber of Deputies Senate of the Republic
Votes % Seats +/– Position Votes % Seats +/– Position
2022 Carlo Calenda 2,339,722 7.78
21 / 400
New 6th 2,213,957 7.73
9 / 200
New 6th

Regional Councils

Region Election Candidate Votes % Seats +/–
Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2023 Alessandro Maran 10,869 2.75
0 / 48
New
Lazio 2023 Alessio D'Amato 75,272 4.9
2 / 51
New
Lombardy 2023 Letizia Moratti 122,356 4.3
3 / 80
New
Sicily 2022 Gaetano Armao 39,788 2.1
0 / 70
New

See also


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