European Choice

European Choice Scelta Europea

Leaders	Michele Boldrin Bruno Tabacci Stefania Giannini
Founded	4 March 2014
Ideology	Liberalism Pro-Europeanism
Political position	Centre
European affiliation	ALDE
European Parliament group	No MEPs
European Parliament	0 / 73
Website
www.sceltaeuropea.it
Politics of Italy Political parties Elections

European Choice (Italian: Scelta Europea, SE) was a Pro-European and primarily liberal electoral alliance of political parties in Italy formed to contest the 2014 European election.

History

In early March 2014 the list received support from Guy Verhofstadt, former Prime Minister of Belgium and candidate of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) Party and the European Democratic Party for President of the European Commission,^[4] and the endorsement of Romano Prodi, former Prime Minister of Italy, former President of the European Commission and former president of the Democratic Party.^[5]^[6] Later, on 19 March, CD, FiD and other groups agreed to go forward with the creation of the list without SC ^[7] whose members criticised the deal and Verhofstadt himself.^[8] In particular, senator Pietro Ichino explained that his party could not be part of a grouping so heterogeneous to include groups as diverse as the Conservatives and Social Reformers, whose MEP Cristiana Muscardini, a "nationalist", sat in the European Conservatives and Reformists Group, or MEP Sonia Alfano, a left-winger who had previously tried to join The Other Europe, a "far-left" anti-austerity list.^[9] However, the list went ahead with the participation of SC (as originally planned) and the exclusion of Italy of Values, the main Italian member of the ALDE Party, and controversial candidates, including Muscardini and Alfano.

In the election SE received 0.7% of the vote, being stronger in the South (CD's heartland),^[10] and failed to return any MEPs.^[11]

	Main ideology	Leader
Civic Choice (SC)	Liberalism	Stefania Giannini
Democratic Centre (CD)	Social liberalism	Bruno Tabacci
Act to Stop the Decline (FiD)	Libertarianism	Michele Boldrin
Conservatives and Social Reformers (CSR)	Conservatism	Cristiana Muscardini
Italian Liberal Party (PLI)	Liberalism	Enzo Palumbo
Italian Republican Party (PRI)	Social liberalism	Francesco Nucara
The Liberals	Conservative liberalism	Edoardo Croci
Federation of Liberals (FdL)	Liberalism	Raffaello Morelli

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–	Leader
2014	197,942 (#9)	0.72	0 / 73	–	Bruno Tabacci

Historical political parties in Italy

Communist

Communist Party of Italy Italian Communist Party Union of Italian Communists (Marxist–Leninist) Proletarian Unity Party Communist Party of Italy (Marxist–Leninist) Proletarian Democracy Movement of Unitarian Communists Movement for the Left Unite the Left Critical Left Party of Italian Communists

Socialist and social-democratic

Green

Green Lists Rainbow Greens Federalist Greens

Centrist

Populars for Reform Segni Pact Italian Democratic Movement Italian Renewal United Consumers Union for the Republic Pact of Liberal Democrats Southern Democratic Party Middle Italy

Christian-democratic

Conservative-liberal

Liberal Union Economic Party Democratic Union for the New Republic Italian Liberal Party Italian Unionist Movement National Democratic Alliance Liberal Democratic Foundation Liberal Democratic Pole Union of the Centre The Liberals-Sgarbi Forza Italia Liberal Reformers Italian Liberal Right Labour and Freedom List The People of Freedom Future and Freedom

Conservative

Conservative Catholics Combatants' Party Agrarian Party Common Man's Front Italian Democratic Party Monarchist National Party People's Monarchist Party Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity National Democracy National Alliance Movement for Italy I Love Italy

Fascist

Italian Nationalist Association National Fascist Party Republican Fascist Party Italian Social Movement National Front (1967) National Front (1990) National Front (1997) Social Action

Regionalist and Federalist

Slavs and Germans Federalists and Liberal Democrats Federalist Party Federalist Italian League Federal Italy Autonomists for Europe Force of the South

Coalitions of parties

Leftist coalitions	Popular Democratic Front Alliance of Progressives Together with the Union The Left – The Rainbow For the Common Good Anticapitalist and Communist List Federation of the Left Civil Revolution

Centre-left coalitions	Organic Centre-left Socialist Unity Pact of Democrats The Olive Tree The Sunflower United Socialists for Europe The Union Rose in the Fist Italy. Common Good

Centrist coalitions	Centrism Pentapartito Pact for Italy White Flower The Clover New Pole for Italy With Monti for Italy European Choice

Centre-right coalitions	National Democratic Union National Bloc Pole of Freedoms Pole of Good Government Pole for Freedoms Segni Pact – National Alliance House of Freedoms The Autonomy

Rightist coalitions	National Blocs National List National Bloc of Freedom Social Alternative The Right–Tricolour Flame

Mixed coalitions	Historic Compromise Grand Coalition

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