was a founding member of a new joint party named Coraggio Italia (CI), whose main leaders were Toti and Luigi Brugnaro, mayor of Venice.

[5] In less than a year, CI, which had failed to attract substantial support among voters according to opinion polls, experienced an internal crisis.

[11] In February 2022, CI's sub-group within the Mixed Group, previously named "IDeA–Cambiamo!–Europeanists", was re-named "Italy in the Centre".

[13] During a meeting of the national leadership in May 2022, a provisional statute of IaC was approved and regional coordinators and a secretariat were appointed,[14] entirely supplanting Cambiamo!.

CI obtained relevant results only in Veneto, Brugnaro's home-region, most notably 5.2% in Verona and 4.4% in Padua, while IaC won 9.2% in Genoa, 8.5% in La Spezia, 3.7% in Rieti, 5.2% in L'Aquila, and 4.3% in Catanzaro.