The Pensioners' Party (Partito Pensionati, PP) is a centrist Italian political party, whose aim is to represent the interests of pensioners.
History The Pensioners' Party was founded in 1987 in Milan, and its current leader is Carlo Fatuzzo.
In the 2004 European Parliament election, it gained 1.1% of the national vote and elected its leader to the European Parliament, where he sits in the European People's Party–European Democrats group.
On 4 February 2006, the party joined The Union, the centre-left coalition led by Romano Prodi, and was decisive in the result of the 2006 general election (the PP scored 0.9% and the centre-left won by a 0.1% margin), but soon after the election the alliance with the centre-left turned cold and tense. In the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani (Forza Italia, Vice President of the European People's Party), tried successfully to convince Fatuzzo to return to the centre-right coalition.
Finally, on 20 November 2006, Carlo Fatuzzo, in a press conference along with Antonio Tajani and Fabrizio Cicchitto (national deputy-coordinator of Forza Italia), announced that its party was re-joining the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition.
In the 2008 general election the Pensioners' Party presented its candidates into The People of Freedom, but it didn't gained any seat.
In the 2009 European Parliament election, the party ran as part of The Autonomy, an electoral coalition including The Right, the Movement for the Autonomies and the Alliance of the Centre.
In 2012 the party enters for the first time in the Italian Parliament with one deputy, Lino Miserotti, who replaces the outgoing deputy Marco Airaghi, and with one senator, Giacinto Boldrini, who replaces the deceased senator Gianpiero Carlo Cantoni.
In the 2013 general election the Pensioners' Party ran with the Centre-right coalition, getting only the 0.16% of the vote for the Chamber and the 0.40% for the Senate.
In the 2018 general election the party signed a cooperation Agreement with Forza Italia and some members of the party were candidate in FI's lists, including party's secretary Carlo Fatuzzo, who was elected in the Chamber of Deputies.
Electoral results Italian Parliament Election Leader Chamber of Deputies Senate of the Republic Votes % Seats +/– Votes % Seats +/– 1992Carlo Fatuzzo220,509 0.56New215,889 0.65New199415,6710.04 0250,6370.76 01996Did not compete60,6400.19 0200168,4390.18 078,5720.23 02006333,2780.87 0340,5651.00 02008Into PdL 0Into PdL 0201354,8540.16 0123,4570.40 02018Into FI 1Did not compete
European Parliament ElectionLeaderVotes%Seats+/–EP Group1989Carlo Fatuzzo162,2930.47New –1999233,8740.75 1EPP-ED2004374,3431.15 02009Into The Autonomy 0–2019Into FI 0
Regional Councils Region Latest election # ofoverall votes % ofoverall vote # ofoverall seats won Abruzzo 2014 Aosta Valley 2013 Apulia 2015 Basilicata 2013 Calabria 2014 Campania 2015 Emilia-Romagna 2014 Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2013 3,741 (#13) 0.9 Lazio 2013 Liguria 2015 Lombardy2018 20,259 (#13) 0.38 Marche 2015 Molise 2013 Piedmont 2014 13,837 (#12) 0.7 Sardinia 2014 Sicily 2012 Tuscany 2015 Trentino-Alto Adige 2013 Umbria 2015 Veneto 2015 14,625 (#14) 0.8
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