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La Casa delle Libertà
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Italian National Coalition
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Silvio Berlusconi
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Center - Right coalition
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, or '''House of Freedoms''' in
English , is an
Italian Right Of Center Party alliance led by national media tycoon
Silvio Berlusconi . It is composed of:
The alliance won the
1994 Elections under the name "Polo delle Liberta'", but the resulting
Government was short-lived, as the Northern League withdrew their support and went to opposition. Particularly edgy had been the relationship within the populist pro-independence Northern League movement and the post-fascist, pro-central government right wing Alleanza Nazionale. As such, the first Berlusconi government lasted a mere 9 months.
After a 5-year
Left-wing government, Berlusconi managed to keep at bay some of the most uncompromising Northern League's policies and won the elections again (
2001 ), this time with a view to create a stable government. It sought to undermine the proportionality rules of the Italian
Additional Member System of elections by running many of its constituency candidates under a decoy list called ''Abolizione Scorporo'', a title which explicitly stated its opposition to the counting rules; its tactic largely worked because it had more support than the
Left-wing Olive Tree (''Uniti nell'Ulivo'') alliance.
In 2003 Cdl was routed in local elections by the Olive Tree alliance, and the League threatened to pull out of the House of Freedoms. In
2005 , once again, Cdl was severely routed in regional elections, losing 6 (of 8) Italian regions. This led to a crisis of the government, particularly after the UDC pulled its four ministers out. A few weeks later, a new government was formed on
April 23 2005 with the same six parties (FI, AN, LN, UDC, NPSI, PRI) and a minor Cabinet reshuffle.
In February 2006, two months ahead of the general elections of 2006, UDC secretary
Lorenzo Cesa and others protested against the inclusion of
Neo-fascists such as
Adriano Tilgher ,
Roberto Fiore ,
Alessandra Mussolini ,
Gaetano Saya and
Pino Rauti in the alliance, branding them
"impresentabili" (unsuitable).
It appeared for some time that these neo-fascist leading figures were going to receive a few almost-guaranteed seats in the Parliament on Forza Italia's ticket.
as claimed by political opposers, while Chairman Silvio Berlusconi definitely ruled out this possibility.[http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/politica/articoli/articolo296617.shtml
Berlusconi confirmed negotiating with Alessandra Mussolini (Benito Mussolini's granddaughter), but claimed he would request her not to include people like Tilgher and Fiore.
Mussolini had previously contended she would not accept any veto. Berlusconi had been photographed with Gaetano Saya's wife, who is also secretary of an extremist neo-fascist party that claims to have such an agreement with the House of Freedoms. [http://www.destranazionale.org/deleg1.htm
Eventually, Mussolini declared that neither she nor other neo-fascists would be candidates, but her alliance of neo-fascist movements,
Alternativa Sociale , would support the House of Freedoms.
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