Party, FI would join the European People's Party in 1999. 1994: The Liberal Democratic Pole (PLD) merges into FI. 1998: The UdC merges into FI. 2003: Liberals within FI form Popular Liberalism, a liberal faction. 2007: Silvio Berlusconi announces the creation of The People of Freedom (PdL), a party merging FI with the more conservative National Alliance (AN) and other parties of the House of Freedoms, notably including the Liberal Reformers, Decide! and the Liberal Democrats (see below). 2009: FI is officially merged into the PdL. 2010: Former members of AN and some liberals too leave FI to form Future and Freedom (FLI). 2013: Silvio Berlusconi announces the revival of FI. Subsequently, the PdL is folded into the new Forza Italia (FI). A minority of FI's liberals take part to the creation of the New Centre-Right, an alternative, predominantly Christian-democratic party. 2015: Some of FI's liberals take part to two successive splits, Conservatives and Reformists (CR) and Liberal Popular Alliance (ALA). 2017: The CR launches a new centre-right party named Direction Italy (DI). SC, F!, the PLI, liberal splinters from Popular Alternative and DI form Us with Italy (NcI) for the 2018 general election allied with the centre-right coalition. 2017: Energies for Italy (EpI), led by Stefano Parisi and including former members of FI and Giannino, is formed. 2019: Splinters from FI launch a new centre-right liberal party, Cambiamo! (C!). NcI becomes a party. 2020: EpI is dissolved. 2020: Cambiamo! forms with Identity and Action Coraggio Italia (CI). 2022: C! and IDeA leave CI and form Italy in the Centre (IaC), CI dissidents form Vinciamo Italia joining IaC. From Democratic Alliance to the Democratic Party 1992: Democratic Alliance (AD) is launched as a proposed coalition of centre-left political parties. 1993: AD is officially founded, by former PRI, PSI, PCI and DC members. Soon after, Mario Segni leaves to form the Segni Pact. 1994: AD takes part to the Alliance of Progressives, while the Segni Pact to the Pact for Italy. 1996: The social-liberal Democratic Union (UD) and the centrist-liberal Italian Renewal (RI) are formed. AD joins the former, the Segni Pact the latter. 1999: The Democrats, a centrist and social-liberal party, is formed by the union of the UD with Romano Prodi's supporters (some of which splinters from the Christian-democratic Italian People's Party, PPI). For its part, the Segni Pact forms an alliance with AN. 2002: The Democrats, the PPI