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==History== The CdL was the successor of the [[Pole of Freedoms]]/[[Pole of Good Government]] and the [[Pole for Freedoms]]. The former two-headed coalition had won the [[1994 Italian general election|1994 general election]] and formed the [[Berlusconi I Cabinet]], which fell in December 1994, when the LN, whose relations with AN were quite tense, withdrew its support. The latter coalition, which did not include the LN, lost the [[1996 Italian general election|1996 general election]] to [[The Olive Tree (Italy)|The Olive Tree]], the [[centre-left politics|centre-left]] coalition led by [[Romano Prodi]]. In the run-up of the [[2001 Italian general election|2001 general election]], after a six-year spell in opposition, which Berlusconi called "the crossing of the desert", he managed to re-unite the coalition under the "House of Freedoms" banner. According to its leader, the alliance was a "broad democratic arch, composed of the democratic right, namely AN, the great democratic centre, namely Forza Italia, CCD and CDU, and the democratic left represented by the League, the New PSI, the PRI and, at least I hope so, [[Francesco Cossiga|Cossiga]]".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2001/01/25/polo-lo-sgarbo-di-bossi.html|title=Polo, lo sgarbo di Bossi - la Repubblica.it|date=25 January 2001 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2001/gennaio/25/Debutta_arco_democratico_Martusciello_anti_co_8_010125309.shtml|title=Archivio Corriere della Sera}}</ref> The CdL won the 2001 general election by a landslide and, consequently, the [[Berlusconi II Cabinet]] was formed. In government, FI, whose strongholds included [[Lombardy]] as well as [[Sicily]], and the LN, which was active only in the Centre-North, formed the so-called "axis of the North", through the special relationship between three Lombards leaders, Berlusconi, [[Giulio Tremonti]] and [[Umberto Bossi]]; on the other side of the coalition, AN and the [[Union of the Centre (2002)|Union of Christian and Centre Democrats]] (UDC), the party emerged from the merger of the CCD and the CDU in late 2002, became the natural representatives of Southern interests.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2003/giugno/10/Maggioranza_alla_prova_della_verifica_co_0_030610015.shtml|title=Archivio Corriere della Sera}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2003/giugno/12/Non_vanno_piu_bene_romani_co_0_030612017.shtml|title=Archivio Corriere della Sera}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2003/settembre/10/centristi_puntano_piedi_sul_Mezzogiorno_co_0_030910007.shtml|title = Archivio Corriere della Sera}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2004/giugno/19/Contro_accerchiamento_Resiste_asse_del_co_9_040619051.shtml|title = Archivio Corriere della Sera}}</ref> In 2003 the CdL was routed in local elections by The Olive Tree and the LN threatened to pull out. Also the [[2004 European Parliament election in Italy|2004 European Parliament election]] were disappointing for FI and the coalition as a whole, even though AN, the UDC and the LN did better than five years before. As a result, Berlusconi and FI were weaker within the CdL. In 2005 the coalition lost heavily in [[2005 Italian regional elections|regional elections]], losing six of the eight [[Regions of Italy|regions]] it controlled. The defeat was particularly damaging in the South, while the only two regions which the coalition managed to keep, Lombardy and [[Veneto]], were in the North, where the LN was decisive . This led to a government crisis, particularly after the UDC pulled its ministers out. A few days later, the [[Berlusconi III Cabinet]] was formed with minor changes from the previous cabinet. In the [[2006 Italian general election|2006 general election]] the CdL, which had opened its ranks to a number of minor parties, lost to [[The Union (Italy)|The Union]] coalition, led by [[Romano Prodi]]. In the run-up of the [[2008 Italian general election|2008 general election]] (caused by the break-up of The Olive Tree) FI, AN and minor parties joined forces and formed [[The People of Freedom]] (PdL), which would become a single party in early 2009. The PdL, allied with the LN in the Centre-North and the [[Movement for the Autonomies|Movement for Autonomy]] (MpA) in the Centre-South, won the election and the centre-right was thus returned to the national government through the [[Berlusconi IV Cabinet]]. The alliance has since been generically referred to as the [[Centre-right coalition (Italy)|centre-right coalition]].
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