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==