Civics of Italy (, Cd'I), officially Civics of Italy – UDC – Us Moderates (Us with Italy, Coraggio Italia, Italy in the Centre) – MAIE – Popular Centre (), is a centre-right parliamentary group in the Senate of the Republic, established in the XIX legislature of the Italian Parliament on 18 October 2022.
History The group was established on 18 October 2022 by six senators elected with the center-right coalition, which had won the 2022 Italian general election on 25 September. Two members had been elected with Us Moderates (a list which would become a political party afterwards), one for the Associative Movement of Italians Abroad and the other three, for technical reasons, hailed from Brothers of Italy, the coalition's largest party.
In October 2022 Antonio De Poli of the Union of the Centre was unanimously elected president of the group. In March 2023 he was replaced by Michaela Biancofiore.https://www.senato.it/composizione/senatori/elenco-alfabetico/scheda-attivita?did=22871
Between October and November 2024, two new members, who had defected from Action, joined the group.https://www.senato.it/composizione/gruppi-parlamentari/variazioni-nella-composizione-dei-gruppi-del-senato-nella-xix
Composition PartyMain ideologyLeaderSenatorsBeginningCurrent Brothers of Italy (FdI) National conservatism Giorgia Meloni33 Us Moderates (NM) Liberal conservatism Maurizio Lupi–2 Union of the Centre (UdC) Christian democracy Lorenzo Cesa11 Coraggio Italia (CI) Liberal conservatism Luigi Brugnaro11 Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE) Ricardo Merlo11Total 6 8https://www.senato.it/leg/19/BGT/Schede/Gruppi/00000092.htm Gruppo Civici d'Italia - Noi Moderati (UDC - Coraggio Italia - Noi con l'Italia - Italia al Centro) - MAIE
Leadership President: Antonio De Poli (2022–2023), Michaela Biancofiore (2023–present) Vice President: Giorgio Salvitti (2022–present), Antonio De Poli (2023–present)
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