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{{About|the Italian political party formed in 2004|other parties with identical or similar name|Christian democracy (disambiguation)}}
{{Infobox political party
| name = Christian Democracy for Autonomies
| native_name = Democrazia Cristiana per le Autonomie
| logo = Christian Democracy for the Authonomies.png
| logo_size = 150px
| country = Italy
| leader = 
| leader1_title = Secretary
| leader1_name = [[Gianfranco Rotondi]]
| leader2_title = Deputy Secretary
| leader2_name = [[Mauro Cutrufo]]
| leader3_title = 
| leader3_name = 
| leader4_title = 
| leader4_name = 
| foundation = 25 June 2005
| dissolution = 27 March 2009
| split = [[Union of the Centre (2002)|Union of Christian and Centre Democrats]]
| merged = [[The People of Freedom]]
| headquarters = Piazza del Gesù, 46<br>00186 [[Rome]]
| newspaper = [http://www.la-discussione.it La Discussione]
| membership_year = 
| membership = 
| ideology = [[Christian democracy]]<ref name="Nordsieck">{{cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.de/italy.html|title=Italy|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|first=Wolfram|last=Nordsieck|year=2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071031081315/http://www.parties-and-elections.de/italy.html|archive-date=31 October 2007|access-date=20 April 2019|url-status=unfit}}</ref>
| national = [[House of Freedoms]] (2005–08)<br>[[The People of Freedom]] (2008–09)
| international = 
| european = 
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| website = [https://archive.today/20130121084831/http://www.democraziacristianaperleautonomie.com/ http://www.democraziacristiana<br />perleautonomie.com]
| colorcode = {{party color|Christian Democracy for the Autonomies}}
}}

'''Christian Democracy for Autonomies''' ({{langx|it|Democrazia Cristiana per le Autonomie}}, DCA) was a minor [[Christian democracy|Christian-democratic]] [[List of political parties in Italy|political party in Italy]],<ref name="Nordsieck"/> led by [[Gianfranco Rotondi]]. Later incarnations of the party, also led by Rotondi, include [[Christian Revolution]], [[Green is Popular]] and [[Christian Democracy with Rotondi]].

==History==
DCA was founded on 25 October 2004 by a split from the [[Union of the Centre (2002)|Union of Christian and Centre Democrats]] (UDC) led by [[Gianfranco Rotondi]], who wanted closer ties with [[Silvio Berlusconi]]'s [[Forza Italia]] and who criticised the political line of the then-leader of UDC [[Marco Follini]]. The party became part of the [[Centre-right coalition (Italy)|centre-right coalition]] following its foundation.

The party was part of the [[House of Freedoms]] coalition in the [[2006 Italian general election|2006 general election]], competing the election in an [[electoral list]] with the [[New Italian Socialist Party]]. The joint list gained 0.7% of the votes and, despite not having passed the 2% threshold, it still elected four deputies since it was the party which received more votes under the 2% in its coalition. Two of these deputies were members of DCA, while two more candidates were elected on the list of Forza Italia. Gianfranco Rotondi was too elected Senator on the list of Forza Italia, along with his colleague and deputy [[Mario Cutrufo]].

DCA was part of [[The People of Freedom]] (PdL) list for the [[2008 Italian general election|2008 general election]]. On 3 April 2008, during a meeting in [[Milan]], the party announced an alliance within the new party with the [[Liberal Populars]] of [[Carlo Giovanardi]].<ref>[http://notizie.alice.it/notizie/politica/2008/04_aprile/03/elezioni_giovanardi_rotondi_e_pomicino_faremo_del_pdl_la_dc,14453041.html     ALICE Notizie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> After the election, in which the party got three deputies and one senator elected, Gianfranco Rotondi joined the [[Berlusconi IV Cabinet]] as Minister without portfolio.

In 2009 the DCA was eventually merged into the PdL and its members launched a network of circles named after the party's newspaper, ''La Discussione'', led by [[Giampiero Catone]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.circoliladiscussione.it/ |title=Circoli la Discussione |access-date=2010-06-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100213024546/http://www.circoliladiscussione.it/ |archive-date=2010-02-13 }}</ref> In October 2012, the balance of accounts of the People of Freedom showed that DCA had received €96,000 of financial support from PdL.<ref>{{Citation |first=Annalisa |last=Cuzzocrea |title=Spuntano i fondi ai transfughi così il partito ha finanziato Scilipoti |newspaper=La Repubblica |date=31 October 2012}}</ref>

==Leadership==
*Secretary: [[Gianfranco Rotondi]] (2005–2009)
**Deputy-Secretary: [[Mauro Cutrufo]] (2005–2009)
**Organization Secretary: [[Giampiero Catone]] (2005–2009)
*President: [[Publio Fiori]] (2005–2006)

==Symbols==
<gallery>
Christian Democracy for the Authonomies.png|Party logo
Logo DC-NPSI 2006.png|[[2006 Italian general election|2006 general election]]
</gallery>

==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20130121084831/http://www.democraziacristianaperleautonomie.com/ Official website]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100213024546/http://www.circoliladiscussione.it/ ''La Discussione'' circles]

==References==
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{{Forza Italia (2013) factions}}
{{Historical Italian political parties}}

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