1999 European election marked a turning point in relations between Forza Italia and the Northern League.

In fact, the assembly works in Parliament had highlighted a growing programmatic convergence between the two parties.

And so, in view of the 2001 general election, Berlusconi and Umberto Bossi put aside the old, and even bloody quarrels, and formed a new coalition: the Pole for Freedoms, which found in the regional elections, also in Tuscany, its first test.

The combination of what were the major forces of regional politics, securing an appointment to Claudio Martini, which ensured stability of the Regional Cabinet that the new regulations wanted to coincide in term with the legislature.

Like 1995 election, Communist Refoundation Party run lonely with its candidate.