Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party
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| Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party | |
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| Secretary | Ugo Rossi |
| President | Walter Kaswalder |
| Founded | 25 July 1948 |
| Headquarters | Corso 3 Novembre, 72 38100 Trento |
| Ideology | Regionalism, Christian democracy |
| Coalition | with the Democratic Party |
| International | none |
| European party | none |
| European Parliament Group | currently no MEPs |
| Website | http://www.patt.tn.it |
The Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese, PATT) is a regionalist christian-democratic Italian political party based in Trentino.
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[edit] History
The party was founded in 1948 as Trentino Tyrolean People's Party (Partito Popolare Trentino Tirolese, PPTT). In 1982 a split between the conservative, led by Franco Tretter, and the centrist wings of the party, led by longstanding leader Enrico Pruner. The first group retained the name of the party, while second one took the name of Integral Autonomy (Autonomia Integrale, AI). Soon later a third party, named Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Union (Unione Autonomista Trentino Tirolese, UATT), emerged. In 1988 the three groups were re-united with the current name.
[edit] Golden age
In the 1993 provincial election the party had its best result ever (20.2%), thanks to the crisis of Christian Democracy (DC), and its leader Carlo Andreotti was President of the Province of Trento for the successive five years, at the head of a coalition composed of PATT and the Italian People's Party, one of the successors of DC, and some minor parties.
In 1998 the party suffered a reatret to 12.4%, due to the big result of the newly-formed Daisy Civic List (22.2%), with which it entered in coalition. Despite this PATT formed an alliance with the House of Freedoms and especially Lega Nord Trentino for the 2001 general election, but Giacomo Bezzi was narrowly defeated in the single-seat-constituency of Lavis.[1]
In the last provincial elections of 2003, PATT scored 9.0%, down from its best result ever in 1993 (20.2%).[2] Indeed in 2002, when it entered in alliance with the centre-left coalition (in Trentino dominated by the Daisy Civic List, Civica), it suffered the split of those who wanted to continue to collaborate with the centre-right. These splinters, led by former leader and President of Trentino Carlo Andreotti, formed a much minor group called Autonomist Trentino, closely tied with Forza Italia, which scored 2.2%. In that occasion Andreotti was the candidate for President of the centre-right and he was soundly defeated (60.8% to 30.7%) by incumbent Lorenzo Dellai (Civica).[3]
[edit] Recent events
After the 2006 general election, thanks to an electoral pact with the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), PATT was for the second time ever represented in the Chamber of Deputies by its former secretary Giacomo Bezzi (PPTT had a Senator from 1972 to 1976, Sergio Fontanari).
For the 2008 general election PATT formed an alliance with Daisy Civic List and SVP for the Senate (Sergio Muraro, PATT, will be the candidate in the single-seat constituency of Pergine Valsugana)[4], while for the Chamber of Deputies PATT will support the SVP. Prior to the electoral campaign Giacomo Bezzi, who did not stay for re-election, announced that he will form a new regionalist party allied with the People of Freedom and Lega Nord and that he will vote for the centre-right in the election.[5] This does not mean that PATT will suffer a new split, after that of Autonomist Trentino in 2003, indeed also would-be Senator Muraro did not rule out the possibility of an alliance with the centre-right, if Silvio Berlusconi will become again Prime Minister.[6]
In the general election the centre-left was for the first time defeated in Trentino[7] and Sergio Muraro was not elected[8]. This bad result brought PATT into a bitter turmoil. Giacomo Bezzi, who did not leave the party yet, proposed to launch a new regionalist party along with Autonomist Trentino and PATT itself. The likely name of the new party is "Popular Autonomists". He also proposed an alliance with the centre-right for the October provincial election, in which the centre-left is advantaged, and that Sergio Divina, Senator and leader of Lega Nord Trentino, could be the candidate for President.[9]
[edit] Leadership
- Secretary: Carlo Andreotti (1988–1994), unknown (1994–2001), Giacomo Bezzi (2001–2003), Ugo Rossi (2003–...)
- President: Enrico Pruner (1988–1989), Franco Tretter (1988–1997), Carlo Andreotti (1997–1999), Luigi Panizza (1999–2003), Giacomo Bezzi (2003–2007), Walter Kaswalder (2007–...)
[edit] References
- ^ ::: Ministero dell'Interno ::: Archivio Storico delle Elezioni - Camera del 13 Maggio 2001
- ^ Parties and Elections in Europe
- ^ http://www.elezioni.provincia.tn.it/2003_10_26/index.html
- ^ Civica Margherita del Trentino
- ^ Lo strappo di Bezzi: "Io voto per Divina" | Trentino
- ^ Muraro: "Berlusconi? Non dico se lo voterei" | Trentino
- ^ http://politiche2008.interno.it/politiche/camera080413/C060830000.htm
- ^ http://politiche2008.interno.it/politiche/senato080413/S040030000.htm
- ^ Bezzi torna in pista con gli "Autonomisti popolari" | Trentino
[edit] Sources
- "Autonomists in Trentino", an essay by Franco Panizza
- Provincial Council of Trento – Legislatures
- Trentino Alto-Adige Region – Elections
- Provincial Government of Trento – Elections
- Cattaneo Institute – Archive of Election Data
- Parties and Elections in Europe – Province of Trento
- Ministry of the Interior – Historical Archive of Elections
[edit] External links
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