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Go Italy!, Italy

Forza Italia

image by M. Schmöger, 16 August 2001

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Overview

A right-of-centre party
G. Vacca, 22 September 1997

I located a variant of this flag at www.racine.ra.it.
Dov Gutterman. 9 January 1999

Forza Italia, the ruling party of Silvio Berlusconi. Image is using the following sources: www.smev.de and www.forza-italia.it.
M. Schmöger, 16 August 2001

FI ("Forza Italia" = Go, Italy http://www.forza-italia.it) - The FI has been founded for the 1994 elections as a new force on the center-right, instead of the already moribund Democrazia Cristiana. Founding-father and leader was and is Silvio Berlusconi, the current Italian prime minister (and by far most influential single person in the Italian television and other media). Originally a merger movement of the right center without the usual party organization, it has become a more or less normal party over the years, however largely focused on Berlusconi.
It currently holds 176 out of 630 seats in the Chamber of Deputies (Camera dei Deputati) and 81 seats out of 325 in the Senate (Senato). In the European Parliament the FI deputies belong to the European People's Party (Christian Democrats).
The logo shows the fluttering FI flag on a white circle; it can be found at cedweb.mininterno.it:8890.
The flag is diagonally divided green-white-red with the diagonal inscription (in white) "FORZA ITALIA". Fotos of the flag (with Berlusconi) at:
www.forza-italia.it/foto15.html, foto19.html and foto21.html.
M. Schmöger, 19 July 2002

Forza Italia Giovani (Go, Italy Youth)

image by M. Schmöger, 23 July 2002

Flag of the "Forza Italia Giovani" (Go, Italy Juveniles), the Youth Organization of the Forza Italia. The flag shows on a white background the round logo of the Forza Italia, around it the black inscriptions "Giovani" (juveniles) and "Per la libertá" (for the freedom). Fotos of this flag in use can be found at 018.jpg, congressogiovani01.gif and copertina008z.jpg.
M. Schmöger, 23 July 2002