Template:Italian general election, 2006-The Union

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Party	Description	2001[1]	2004[2]
Olive Tree L'Ulivo	Confederation of three national parties: Democrats of the Left, the major social-democratic party of Italy, led by Piero Fassino; The Daisy, centre-left party led by Francesco Rutelli; and the MRE, a minor centre-left party led by Luciana Sbarbati. The coalition is present only in the Chamber of Deputies, whereas the single parties will present their own symbols for the Senate.	31.1% [3]	31.1%
Communist Refoundation Party Rifondazione Comunista, PRC	Reformed communist party led by Fausto Bertinotti. Their refusal to join the Union at the last election kept it from winning and allowed Berlusconi to stay in office.	5.0%	6.0%
Rose in the Fist Rosa nel Pugno	Liberal and libertarian movement, composed by the Italian Democratic Socialists of Enrico Boselli and the Italian Radicals of Daniele Capezzone.	1.2%[4]	2.2%[5]
Party of Italian Communists Comunisti Italiani, PdCI	Euro-communist party led by Oliviero Diliberto. It is part of a joint ticket with the Greens and the Consumers' List for the Senate.	1.7%	2.4%
Federation of the Greens Federazione dei Verdi, Verdi	Green party led by Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio. It is part of a joint ticket with the Party of Italian Communists and the Consumers' List for the Senate.	2.2%[6]	2.5%
Italy of Values Italia dei Valori	Moderate centre-left movement led by former magistrate Antonio Di Pietro.	4.0%	2.1%
Popular-UDEUR Popolari-UDEUR	Small centrist party led by Clemente Mastella.	—[7]	1.3%
The Socialists I Socialisti	Small socialist party, born in January 2006 as split of the NPSI, and led by Bobo Craxi, son of the late Bettino.	—	—
Pensioners' Party Partito dei Pensionati	Small single issue party for the defence of retirement plans, led by MEP Carlo Fatuzzo. It was allied with the House of Freedoms in 2001.	< 0.1%	1.1%
^  Result in the Italian general election of 2001 ^  Result in the European election of 2004 ^  Sum of the results of Left-Wing Democrats (16.6%) and The Daisy (14.5%). The MRE was not present in the election. ^  Result of the Italian Radicals; the SDI was part of an electoral alliance with the Greens, which obtained 2.2% of #votes. ^  Result of the Italian Radicals; the SDI joined the Olive Tree in the election. ^  Result of the joint list with the SDI (Italian Democratic Socialists). ^  Not present in the election, as the party was part of the Daisy.