Civics of Italy

Civics of Italy (Italian: Civici d'Italia, Cd'I), officially Civics of Italy – UDC – Us Moderates (Us with Italy, Coraggio Italia, Italy in the Centre) – MAIE – Popular Centre (Italian: Civici d'Italia – UDC – Noi Moderati (Noi con l'Italia, Coraggio Italia, Italia al Centro) – MAIE – Centro Popolare), 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.

Civics of Italy Civici d'Italia
Legislature(s)	Senate of the Republic
Member parties	FdI (3 of 65) NM UdC CI MAIE
National affiliation	Centre-right coalition
President	Michaela Biancofiore
Representation	8 / 206
Political position	Centre-right

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.^[1][2][3]

In October 2022 Antonio De Poli of the Union of the Centre was unanimously elected president of the group.^[4][5] In March 2023 he was replaced by Michaela Biancofiore.^[6]

Between October and November 2024, two new members, who had defected from Action, joined the group.^[7]

Composition

Party		Main ideology	Leader	Senators
				Beginning	Current
	Brothers of Italy (FdI)	National conservatism	Giorgia Meloni[a]	3	3[b]
	Us Moderates (NM)	Liberal conservatism	Maurizio Lupi	–	2[c]
	Union of the Centre (UdC)	Christian democracy	Lorenzo Cesa	1	1[d]
	Coraggio Italia (CI)	Liberal conservatism	Luigi Brugnaro	1	1[e]
	Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE)	Italians abroad interests	Ricardo Merlo	1	1[f]
Total				6	8[8]

1. Not in the group, like the rest of the 65 senators
2. Antonio Guidi, Giovanna Petrenga, Giorgio Salvitti (vice president)
3. Mariastella Gelmini, Giusy Versace
4. Antonio De Poli (vice president)
5. Michaela Biancofiore (president)
6. Mario Borghese (treasurer)

Leadership

• President: Antonio De Poli (2022–2023), Michaela Biancofiore (2023–present)
• Vice President: Giorgio Salvitti (2022–present), Antonio De Poli (2023–present)