Alliance for Italy (Italian: Alleanza per l'Italia, ApI) is a centrist political party in Italy. The party, which is described in its manifesto as "democratic, liberal, popular" as opposed both to "right-wing populism" and the "social-democratic left", an experience with high and memorable value, yet by now run out", was launched on 11 November 2009 by Francesco Rutelli, senator for the Democratic Party (PD) and former leader of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (DL). The core of the party is composed by the Free Democrats, the faction Rutelli launched some months before leaving the PD. The party was an observer member of the Liberal International.