Editing Italy of Values (section)

===Populist turn and discontents (2009–2013)===
[[File:Antonio Di Pietro Siena 2010.JPG|thumb|180px|[[Antonio Di Pietro]] in 2010]]
Since de Magistris's strong showing in the 2009 European election there was talk of an underground row between him and Di Pietro for the leadership of the party. Moreover, as some members of the party were entailed with corruption charges, others like [[Francesco Barbato]] urged Di Pietro to be more earnest in cleaning up the party.<ref name="Corriere 4-11">{{cite web |last=Fregonara |first=Gianna |date=4 November 2009 |title=I dipietristi a de Magistris "Così il partito va in pezzi" |url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/novembre/04/dipietristi_Magistris_Cosi_partito_pezzi_co_9_091104001.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531081344/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/novembre/04/dipietristi_Magistris_Cosi_partito_pezzi_co_9_091104001.shtml |archive-date=31 May 2012 |access-date= |website=[[Corriere della Sera]] |publisher=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Franchi |first=Paolo |date=5 November 2009 |title=Il "partito personale" di Di Pietro alle prese con la questione morale |url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/novembre/05/partito_personale_Pietro_alle_prese_co_9_091105014.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120531081425/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/novembre/05/partito_personale_Pietro_alle_prese_co_9_091105014.shtml |archive-date=31 May 2012 |access-date= |website=[[Corriere della Sera]] |publisher=}}</ref> De Magistris, keen on aligning the party with the far left and the most radical groups in opposition to Berlusconi, dubbed Di Pietro as too moderate and denounced that the party "risks of becoming the [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|DC]] of the third millennium".<ref name="Corriere 10-02"/> While the party's grassroots supported a change of leadership and de Magistris initially did not rule this out,<ref name="Corriere 7-11"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilgiornale.it/interni/la_sinistra_fa_10_domande_di_pietro/micromega-pietro/10-11-2009/articolo-id=397778-page=0-comments=1 |title=La sinistra fa 10 domande a Di Pietro - Interni - ilGiornale.it del 10-11-2009 |publisher=Ilgiornale.it |access-date=2010-12-14}}</ref> the party's old guard ([[Silvana Mura]],<ref name="Corriere 4-11"/> [[Massimo Donadi]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/novembre/14/Magistris_faccia_retromarcia_Oppure_dovra_co_9_091114052.shtml |title=De Magistris faccia retromarcia Oppure dovrà lasciare il partito |publisher=Archiviostorico.corriere.it |date=2009-12-24 |access-date=2010-12-14}}</ref> [[Felice Belisario]], [[Luigi Li Gotti]] and [[Leoluca Orlando]]) staunchly defended the leader. Finally an agreement was reached between the two: during 5–7 February 2010 party congress de Magistris would support Di Pietro in exchange of a leading role in the party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2009/novembre/17/Mossa_Magistris_iscrivo_all_Idv_co_8_091117032.shtml |title=Mossa di De Magistris: mi iscrivo all' Idv e sosterrò Di Pietro |publisher=Archiviostorico.corriere.it |date=2009-12-24 |access-date=2010-12-14}}</ref> In any event Di Pietro was re-elected as party president unopposed, while de Magistris did not become party secretary as he wanted.<ref name="Corriere 10-02">{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2010/febbraio/10/Magistris_deluso_volevo_fare_segretario_co_8_100210031.shtml |title=De Magistris deluso: volevo fare il segretario |publisher=Archiviostorico.corriere.it |date=2009-12-24 |access-date=2010-12-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2010/febbraio/08/Pietro_governo_con_nuovi_compagni_co_8_100208027.shtml |title=Di Pietro: al governo con il Pd Sì a nuovi compagni di viaggio |publisher=Archiviostorico.corriere.it |date=2009-12-24 |access-date=2010-12-14}}</ref>

The populist course taken by the party, that enforced its co-operation with the far left, and the emergence of more "extreme" figures like de Magistris led [[Pino Pisicchio]] and his centrist faction to leave the party in order to join [[Francesco Rutelli]]'s [[Alliance for Italy]] (ApI) in November 2009. While leaving the party along with other three MPs, Pisicchio told the press that lining up IdV in the "antagonist camp" was a departure from its original nature of a "centrist party of liberal-democratic inspiration".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asca.it/news-IDV__PISICCHIO__PRESTO_LASCIO_DI_PIETRO__CON_LUI_MISITI__RAZZI_E_ASTORE-872489-ORA-.html |title=Idv Pisicchio Presto Lascio Di Pietro Con Lui Misiti Razzi E Astore – Agenzia Di Stampa Asca |publisher=Asca.it |date=2004-05-26 |access-date=2010-12-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716235225/http://www.asca.it/news-IDV__PISICCHIO__PRESTO_LASCIO_DI_PIETRO__CON_LUI_MISITI__RAZZI_E_ASTORE-872489-ORA-.html |archive-date=16 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ilriformista.it/stories/Prima%20pagina/121235/ |title=Il Riformista |publisher=Ilriformista.it |date=2009-11-06 |access-date=2010-12-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722035947/http://www.ilriformista.it/stories/Prima%20pagina/121235/ |archive-date=22 July 2011}}</ref> [[Giuseppe Astore]], a senator, offered similar views: "De Magistris is too far on the left for me ... . I want a reformist not an extremist party".<ref name="Corriere 7-11"/> In the summer of 2010 two MEPs, Arlacchi and [[Vincenzo Iovine]], left IdV citing the lack of democracy in the party.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2010/settembre/07/Idv_autoritario_altro_addio_tra_co_9_100907011.shtml |title="Idv autoritario" Un altro addio tra gli eurodeputati |publisher=Archiviostorico.corriere.it |date=2009-12-24 |access-date=2010-12-14}}</ref> Arlacchi, a former senator of the PDS, joined the PD,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.affaritaliani.it/politica/pino_arlacchi300910.html |title=L'europarlamentare Pino Arlacchi lascia l'Idv e aderisce al Pd |publisher=Affaritaliani.it |date=2010-09-30 |access-date=2010-12-14}}</ref> while Iovine, a former Christian Democrat, the ApI.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2010/ottobre/31/Strasburgo_Iovine_lascia_Idv_per_co_8_101031015.shtml |title=A Strasburgo Iovine lascia l' Idv per andare con Rutelli |publisher=Archiviostorico.corriere.it |date=2009-12-24 |access-date=2010-12-14}}</ref> In December two deputies, [[Antonio Razzi]]<ref name="corriere1">{{cite web|url=http://archivio.corriere.it/Archivio/interface/landing.html|title=Archivio Corriere della Sera|website=archivio.corriere.it}}</ref> and [[Domenico Scilipoti]],<ref name="corriere1"/> left the party in order to support [[Berlusconi IV Cabinet|Berlusconi's government]].

In early 2011 IdV proposed three [[referendum]]s. Thanks to its activists, the party was able to collect two million signatures among the Italian population in support of these referendums, which were concerned with the abrogation of the so-called ''legittimo impedimento'' (an Italian law which permits the Prime Minister to postpone potential trials if prosecuted by the judiciary), the abrogation of a law allowing the construction of [[nuclear power|nuclear power plants]] in Italy and the abrogation of a law allowing the [[Water privatization|privatisation of water]] [[water management|management]]. The [[2011 Italian referendums|referendums]] took place in June 2011 and the "yes" prevailed in all three cases.

On 30 May 2011 de Magistris was elected [[List of mayors of Naples|mayor of Naples]] by a landslide. The IdV candidate, who had received just 27.5% of the vote in the first round (enough to beat the Democratic candidate off the second round), won a thumping 65.4% of the vote against the centre-right candidate in the run-off. This was a huge success for IdV and its main ally, the [[Federation of the Left]], which together also gained the majority in the municipal council.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://comunali.interno.it/comunali/amm110515/C0510490.htm |title=Comune di NAPOLI (NAPOLI) - Elezioni Comunali del 15 - 16 maggio 2011 - Ministero dell'Interno |access-date=2011-05-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518160512/http://comunali.interno.it/comunali/amm110515/C0510490.htm |archive-date=18 May 2011}}</ref> On 21 May 2012 the party had another major electoral breakthrough when [[Leoluca Orlando]] was elected [[List of mayors of Palermo|mayor of Palermo]] with 72.4% of the vote in a run-off.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/Speciali/Politica/2012/elezioni12/SEAS/amministrative/comunali/comune_PALERMO.shtml|title=Corriere.it - Amministrative 2012|website=www.corriere.it}}</ref> Both mayors would distance from IdV in a few years.

In October 2012 IdV came under pressure after some news inquiries reported obscurities in party finances, while suffering heavy losses in opinion polls due to the success of a new protest party led by comedian [[Beppe Grillo]], the [[Five Star Movement]] (M5S). In an interview to ''[[Il Fatto Quotidiano]]'', Di Pietro declared IdV "dead" and, foreseeing its exclusion from Parliament after the next election, stated that the party would fight from the outside and would endorse the M5S.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2012/11/01/di-pietro-litalia-dei-valori-e-morto-con-report-ora-risorgiamo/400595/|title=Di Pietro: "L'Italia dei Valori è morta con Report. Ora risorgiamo"|date=1 November 2012|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano}}</ref><ref name="corriere1"/> Grillo proposed Di Pietro as [[President of Italy|President of the Republic]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beppegrillo.it/2012/11/antonio_di_piet_1.html |title=Blog di Beppe Grillo - Antonio di Pietro presidente della Repubblica |access-date=10 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104054207/http://www.beppegrillo.it/2012/11/antonio_di_piet_1.html |archive-date=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> but ruled out any alliance between M5S and IdV.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lastampa.it/2012/11/06/italia/grillo-nessuna-alleanza-con-di-pietro-HGQOEdyVHPicpG4xhyrDEP/pagina.html|title=Grillo: "Nessuna alleanza con Di Pietro" E vieta ai suoi di andare ai talk show|website=LaStampa.it|date=6 November 2012 }}</ref> The interview caused unrest within party ranks<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2012/11/01/idv-donadi-intervista-e-necrologio-e-pardi-e-ora-di-cambiare-leader/400744/|title=Idv, Donadi: "Di Pietro è finito. Mai più nello stesso partito"|date=1 November 2012|website=Il Fatto Quotidiano}}</ref> and led to the exit of a "moderate" wing led by Massimo Donadi, who was replaced as floor leader in the Chamber by [[Antonio Borghesi]].<ref name="corriere1"/> Donadi, along with other three deputies ([[Nello Formisano]], [[Giovanni Paladini]] and [[Gaetano Porcino]]) and one senator ([[Stefano Pedica]]), launched [[Rights and Freedom]] (DL),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.agi.it/politica/notizie/201211221148-pol-rt10098-donadi_lancia_diritti_e_liberta_caro_tonino_senza_rancore |title=Ultime Notizie Online &#124; Agenzia Giornalistica Italia &#124; AGI |access-date=28 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014303/http://www.agi.it/politica/notizie/201211221148-pol-rt10098-donadi_lancia_diritti_e_liberta_caro_tonino_senza_rancore |archive-date=5 March 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ivg.it/2012/11/i-fuoriusciti-dellidv-fondano-diritti-e-liberta-marylin-fusco-la-politica-del-fare-iniziava-a-scricchiolare/|title=I fuoriusciti dell'Idv fondano "Diritti e Libertà", Marylin Fusco: "La politica del fare iniziava a scricchiolare" - IVG.it|date=22 November 2012|website=Il Vostro Giornale}}</ref> which later joined the [[Democratic Centre (Italy)|Democratic Centre]] (CD).

In October 2012, de Magistris quit the party and formed the [[Orange Movement]] (MA), which was joined by many IdV left-wingers.<ref name="corriere1"/> As soon as late December, both IdV and MA were founding components of [[Civil Revolution]] (RC), a far-left coalition led by [[Antonio Ingroia]].<ref name="corriere1"/>