Italy Politics

The center-left parties created the Olive Tree coalition while the centre-right is united under the House of Freedoms colation. The coalitions continued into the 2001 and 2006 national elections with the Olive Tree coaltion winning the latter and being the current ruling group.

The most important political party has been the Christian Democratic Party (Partito Democrazia Cristiana—DC), which is considered to be around the centre of the political spectrum. It can be described as a religious and an anti-class party. The other really important party is the Italian Communist Party (Partito Comunista Italiano—PCI), Western Europe’s biggest Communist party.

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