Forza Italia

Forza Italia (FI; translated to "Forward Italy"^{[2][9][10][11][12][13]} or "Let's Go Italy"^{[14][15][16][17]}) was a centre-right^[8] political party in Italy with liberal-conservative,^{[2][3][18][19]} Christian-democratic,^[4][8][20] liberal,^{[4][8][20][21]} social-democratic^[4] and populist^[5][6][7] ideas. Its leader was Silvio Berlusconi, who was Prime Minister of Italy four times.

Forza Italia
President	Silvio Berlusconi
Vice President	Giulio Tremonti (2004–2009) Roberto Formigoni (2008–2009)
Founded	18 January 1994
Dissolved	27 March 2009
Merged into	The People of Freedom
Headquarters	Via dell'Umiltà 36, Rome
Student wing	Students for the Freedoms
Youth wing	Forza Italia – Young People for Freedom
Membership (2007)	400,000[1]
Ideology	Liberal conservatism[2][3] Christian democracy[4] Liberalism[4] Populism[5][6][7] Social democracy[4] (minority)
Political position	Centre-right[8]
National affiliation	Pole of Freedoms/Pole of Good Government (1994), Pole for Freedoms (1996–2001), House of Freedoms (2001–2008)
European affiliation	European People's Party (1999–2009)
European Parliament group	Forza Europa (1994–1995), Union for Europe (1995–1998), EPP–ED (1998–2009)
Colours	Azure
Political parties