Us Moderates was launched as an electoral joint list within the
centre-right coalition in the
2022 Italian general election, which obtained 0.9% of the vote, seven deputies and two senators. NM was originally composed of four founding members:
Us with Italy (NcI),
Italy in the Centre (IaC), the
Union of the Centre (UdC) and
Coraggio Italia (CI). After the election, NM formed parliamentary groups both in the
Chamber of Deputies and the
Senate (
Civics of Italy), thanks to the influx of some elects from the
Brothers of Italy and the alliance with the
Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (MAIE). In May 2023 NM evolved into a unitary party, causing the splits of CI and the UdC.
Maurizio Lupi, leader of NcI, became NM's leader and president, while
Giovanni Toti, leader of IaC, was appointed president of the party's national council during the party's first congress, held in October 2023. In January 2024
Italy of Values (IdV), formerly aligned with the
centre-left, joined and its leader
Ignazio Messina became NM's spokesperson. In February UdC leader
Lorenzo Cesa aligned his party with the
League and subsequently left NM's group in the Chamber. In
2023 regional elections NM or its associate parties won 7.5% of the vote in
Molise, 2.0% in
Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 1.2% in
Lombardy and 1.1% in
Lazio. In the
2024 European Parliament election NM ran with
Forza Italia (FI), obtaining 9.6% of the vote, but no seats for the party. In the subsequent
Ligurian regional election two lists formed mostly by NM members ("
Bucci for President" and "Ligurian Pride") obtained a combined score of 15.2% in a region that had been governed by Toti from 2015 to 2024 and where his
Cambiamo! had obtained 22.9% in
2020. In the other
2024 regional elections where NM had fielded its own lists, the party had won 2.9% of the vote in
Umbria, 2.7% in
Abruzzo and 0.7% in
Piedmont, while
Sardinia 20Twenty, a regional partner of NM, formed mostly by former FI members, had obtained 5.5% in
Sardinia. In September 2024
Mara Carfagna,
Mariastella Gelmini and
Giusy Versace, all three former FI members who had joined
Action in 2022, formed an association named "Popular Centre". In October they officially joined NM, as well as its parliamentary groups in the Chamber and the Senate. In November 2024 NM changed its symbol, adding to its name also "Populars for Europe", and it was announced that the party was seeking to join the
European People's Party (EPP) in the coming months. The party was officially admitted into the EPP in January 2025. In March 2025 Carafagna was appointed secretary, while in July
Ilaria Cavo, Toti's number two in Cambiamo! and IaC, was selected president of the national council, replacing her mentor. In the
2025 regional elections the party fielded its own lists in most regions, aiming at strengthening its role as fourth pillar of the centre-right coalition and obtaining 4.0% of the vote and two regional councillors in
Calabria (down from a combined score of CI and NcI of 8.7% in
2021), 1.6% in
Marche, 1.3% in
Campania, 1.2% in
Tuscany, 1.1% in
Veneto and 0.8% in
Apulia. ==Composition==