Liberal Reformers

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Liberal Reformers Riformatori Liberali
Italian national party
Leader	Benedetto Della Vedova

Coalition	House of Freedoms
Political ideology	Libertarianism, Classical liberalism
Official newspaper	none
Website	www.riformatoriliberali.org
See also	Politics of Italy Political parties in Italy Elections in Italy

Liberal Reformers (Italian: Riformatori Liberali) is a minor Italian libertarian political party founded in 2005, by a split from Italian Radicals of those radicals that were opposed to the formation of the Rose in the Fist together with the Italian Democratic Socialists, and instead supported an alliance with the House of Freedoms. Its headquarters are in Rome.

The party, led by Benedetto Della Vedova (Radical MEP from 1999 to 2004) and member of the Transnational Radical Party, is strongly in favour of free-market and is staunchly pro-US. The party slogan is: "America, Market, Individual".

The party unites former Radicals, as many former members of the Italian Liberal Party and of Forza Italia.

After 2006 general elections (in which Della Vedova was elected MP on Forza Italia's list), the explict aim of the grouping is to unite the centre-right in a single party and to strenghten liberal and secular positions in it. Liberal Reformers act both as a faction of Forza Italia both as a unifying agent of centre-right liberals.

In October 2006 year, Liberal Reformers launched a manifesto called "Give a libertarian soul to the centre-right" together with famous journalists (Vittorio Feltri, Arturo Diaconale, Filippo Facci and Giordano Bruno Guerri), academics and politicians from both Forza Italia and National Alliance.

[edit] Party leaderhip

President: Benedetto Della Vedova
Spokesman: Marco Taradash
Coordinator: Giuseppe Calderisi
Secretary: Carmelo Palma

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[edit] External links

(Italian) Official party website
(Italian) Manifesto "Give a libertarian soul to the centre-right"
(Italian) Official website of Benedetto Della Vedova

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