Complex sentence: The party contested the 2006 general election as Third Pole ("Terzo Polo"), independently from the two major coalitions and, in January 2008, it formed a political pact with Raffaele Lombardo's Movement for Autonomy, strong in Sicily.
Split into simpler sentences: The party contested the 2006 general election as Third Pole ("Terzo Polo"), independently from the two major coalitions. In January 2008 IdC formed a political pact with Raffaele Lombardo's Movement for Autonomy (MpA), whose power base is in Sicily.