Italian Radicals (Italian: Radicali Italiani) is an Italian political party which describes itself as a liberale, liberista e libertario political movement (liberista means economic liberal or, better, libertarian in the American sense; libertario, here, denotes a form of social liberalism concerning moral issues, with some ideological connection with historical left-libertarianism).
It was founded on 14 July 2001, with Daniele Capezzone as the original party secretary, replaced in 2006 by Rita Bernardini. The party intends to be the Italian section of the Transnational Radical Party, that is to say the continuation of the Radical Party founded in 1955 by the left-wing of the Italian Liberal Party and re-launched in the 1960s by Marco Pannella.
The Radical Party having become a transnational NGO working at the UN level, which by statute does not participate in national political elections, its Italian members organised themselves into the Pannella List (Lista Pannella) between 1992 and 1999 and into the Bonino List (Lista Bonino) until 2001, when they re-established themselves as a party.
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