Template:Italian general election, 2006-House of Freedoms

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Party Description 2001[1] 2004[2]
Forza Italia
Forza Italia
Personality-driven party led by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. 29.4% 20.1%
National Alliance
Alleanza Nazionale, AN
Conservative party led by Gianfranco Fini, then Minister for Foreign Affairs and vice-premier. 12.0% 11.5%
UDC
UDC
Moderate Catholic centrist party, officially led by Lorenzo Cesa; however its main member is Pierferdinando Casini, then the Speaker of the Lower House. 3.2% 5.9%
Lega Nord-Movement for Autonomy
Lega Nord-Movimento per l'Autonomia
Joint ticket of Northern League, an autonomous regionalist Northern Italian party, led by former Reform Minister Umberto Bossi, and Movement for Autonomy, a Southern Italy-based, centrist minor party led by Raffaele Lombardo. 3.9%[3] 5.0%[4]
New DC-NPSI
Nuova DC-Nuovo PSI
Joint ticket of Christian Democracy for the Autonomies (sometimes New DC), a centrist minor party led by Gianfranco Rotondi, and Socialist Party New PSI, a minor socialist party led by Gianni De Michelis. 1.0%[5] 2.0%[6]
Social Alternative
Alternativa Sociale
Confederation of far right and fascist movements, led by Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the former dictator of Italy. 1.2%
Tricolour Flame
Fiamma Tricolore
Small neo-fascist party led by Luca Romagnoli, an MEP elected in 2004 for Social Alternative.
Liberal Reformers
Riformatori Liberali
Small libertarian movement, born as split of the Italian Radicals and led by Benedetto Della Vedova. It is closely associated to Forza Italia.
No Euro Movement
No Euro
Negligible eurosceptic movement led by Renzo Rabellino. < 0.1%[7]
  1. ^  Result in the Italian general election of 2001
  2. ^  Result in the European election of 2004
  3. ^  Only Northern League; the Movement for Autonomy was not present in these elections.
  4. ^  Only NPSI; the Christian Democracy for the Autonomies was not present in these elections.
  5. ^  Present only in the North-Western costituency, in which it took 0.8% of votes.