Us of the Centre

Led by Clemente Mastella, Minister of Labour in Berlusconi I Cabinet (1994–1995), minister of Justice in Prodi II Cabinet (2006–2008), and mayor of Benevento (since 2016), the party is the successor of the Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR).

In the summer of 2020, Mastella re-organised his followers under the banner of Us Campanians,[1][2] which obtained 4.4% of the vote and 2 regional councillors, in support of the incumbent president Vincenzo De Luca of the Democratic Party (PD) in the 2020 Campania regional election.

[4] In December 2021, during a party assembly in Rome, Mastella was elected secretary and Giorgio Merlo, a journalist and former long-time deputy of the Italian People's Party (PPI), Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, and the PD from Piedmont, president.

's sub-group in the Senate's Mixed Group, whose name was changed in order to include "Us of the Centre (Us Campanians)".

[6] In June 2022, during a party convention in Naples, Mastella proposed an alliance with Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva (IV) and Giovanni Toti's Italy in the Centre (IaC), in a sort of re-edition of the Daisy, which put the UDEUR together with the PPI, The Democrats, and Italian Renewal in the run-up of the 2001 Italian general election.