Liberal Democrats (Italy)

Liberal Democrats Liberal Democratici
President	Italo Tanoni
Vice President	Francesco Pifferi
Coordinator	Alessandro Campagnioli
Founder	Lamberto Dini
Founded	18 September 2007
Split from	Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy
Headquarters	via di Ripetta, 142 00186 Rome
Ideology	Liberalism
Political position	Centre
Website
http://www.liberal-democratici.it
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The Liberal Democrats (Italian: Liberal Democratici, LD), whose complete name is Liberal Democrats for Renewal (Liberal Democratici per il Rinnovamento), is a liberal and centrist political party in Italy.

The party, whose current leader is Italo Tanoni, traces its roots in Italian Renewal, which was folded into Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy in 2002.^[1] Italian Renewal's and the Liberal Democrats' leader was Lamberto Dini, who had previously served as Director-General of the Bank of Italy (1979–1994) under Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Minister of the Treasury (1994–1995) under Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister (1995–1996) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1996–2001) under Romano Prodi, Massimo D'Alema and Giuliano Amato.

In the run-up of the foundation of the Democratic Party in 2007, Dini and his group quit and formed the Liberal Democrats, which would temporarily join The People of Freedom. In 2008 Dini stayed in that party, partying ways from his Liberal Democrats, who continued to be active as an autonomous party.