Rutelliani referred to the followers of Francesco Rutelli, a former leading member of the Democratic Party, and later leader of Alliance for Italy. The followers of Rutelli were mainly centrists who wanted the party to be modelled on the Democratic Party of the United States and to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and the Alliance of Democrats. They included both liberals and Christian-democrats. Some groups considered close to Rutelli were: * Liberal PD (also close to Walter Veltroni) * Democratic Ecologists (also close to Walter Veltroni) * Teodem/