Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (Italy)

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The Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (Italian: Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e dei Democratici di Centro), commonly abbrieviated to UDC, is a political party in Italy formed by a merger of the former Christian Democratic Centre (CCD, led by Pierferdinando Casini from 1994 to 2001, then by Marco Follini), United Christian Democrats (CDU, a split of Italian People's Party, led by Rocco Buttiglione from 1995) and European Democracy (DE, founded by Sergio D'Antoni) in 2002. Its headquarters are in Rome.

The new party was led by Marco Follini, secretary until October 15 2005 and by Rocco Buttiglione, president from the foundation to nowadays. The new secretary, elected on October 27, is Lorenzo Cesa, a MEP for the party, although the true leader and head of the list for the April election is Pierferdinando Casini. The party is part of the House of Freedoms coalition.

In the 2004 European Parliamentary Elections it gained 5.9% of the vote and returned 5 MEPs, while in 2001 elections the three parties scored 5.6% (sum of 3.2%, result of CCD and CDU, and 2.4%, result of DE).

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The party will be present in the general election of April 9 and 10, 2006, with a new logo, characterized by the inclusion of the name of Casini, by far the most prominent member of the UDC. Casini himself will be the leading candidate on many of the electoral costituencies

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