| Civics of Italy | |
| Native Name: | Civici d'Italia |
| Abbreviation: | Cd'I |
| President: | Michaela Biancofiore |
| Position: | Centre-right |
| National: | Centre-right coalition |
| Seats1 Title: | Senate of the Republic |
| Affiliation1 Title: | Group members |
| Country: | Italy |
Civics of Italy (Cd'I), officially Civics of Italy – UDC – Us Moderates (Us with Italy, Courage Italy, Italy in the Centre) – MAIE – Popular Centre, 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.
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]
| Party | Main ideology | Leader | Senators | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beginning | Current | |||||
| Brothers of Italy (FdI) | National conservatism | Giorgia Meloni | 3 | 3 | ||
| Us Moderates (CI) | Liberal conservatism | Maurizio Lupi | – | 2 | ||
| Union of the Centre (UdC) | Christian democracy | Lorenzo Cesa | 1 | 1 | ||
| Coraggio Italia (CI) | Liberal conservatism | Luigi Brugnaro | 1 | 1 | ||
| Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE) | Ricardo Merlo | 1 | 1 | |||
| Total | 6 | 6[8] | ||||