Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies

Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies
Alleanza Liberalpopolare – Autonomie
President Denis Verdini
Founded 28 July 2015
Split from Forza Italia
Ideology Centrism
Liberalism
Regionalism
Political position Centre
Chamber of Deputies
8 / 630
Senate
18 / 315

The Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies (Italian: Alleanza Liberalpopolare – Autonomie, ALA) is a centrist and liberal political party in Italy, active mainly through its parliamentary group in the Senate[1][2] and its sub-group in the Chamber of Deputies[3] of the Italian Parliament. Its president is Denis Verdini, a senator from Tuscany.

ALA members are often known as Verdiniani, from the name of their leader, who was formerly a long-time member and national coordinator of three successive centre-right parties led by Silvio Berlusconi (Forza Italia, The People of Freedom and Forza Italia) until July 2015, when he broke with Berlusconi and the party in order to support the Renzi Cabinet.[4]

Verdini aims at launching the "Moderates for Renzi", that would eventually include the other centrist parties supporting the government, namely the New Centre-Right, the Union of the Centre and Civic Choice[5][6][7][8][9][10] (the Christian leftist and centrist Solidary Democracy, currently in alliance with the kin Democratic Centre, ruled out any interest in the idea).[11] As of May 2016, ALA looked set to form a joint group in the Chamber with Civic Choice, in order to counter-balance Popular Area (the group composed of the New Centre-Right and the Union of the Centre) within the government coalition.[12][13]

History

The Liberal Popular Alliance emerged from a split from Forza Italia (FI), led by Denis Verdini, who wanted to support the reforms put forward by the Renzi Cabinet, and was joined by senators coming from different centre-right groups, including Great Autonomies and Freedom (GAL), Conservatives and Reformists (CR) and New Centre-Right (NCD).

Denis Verdini

Lucio Barani, who until then was the leader of the New Italian Socialist Party (NPSI),[14][15] was elected president of the senatorial group. "Autonomies" was added to "Liberal Popular Alliance" as a reference to the presence of two senators of the Movement for the Autonomies–Party of Sicilians (MpA–PdS) in the group.[16] Other than Barani, who continued to be a member of the NPSI, and the two MpA–PdS senators, the other group members were independent from any party affiliation.

Between September and October, four senators and seven deputies left FI and joined Verdini; the deputies formed a joint sub-group with the Associative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE) named "Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies – MAIE.[2][17][18][19] Between December and January 2016, the party was joined by five more senators,[2] including Sandro Bondi, another former FI national coordinator.[20][21] Also in January, three ALA members were elected deputy chairpersons of three Senate committees.[22] A twentieth senator and an eight deputy joined in May.[2][3] Bondi and his partner, senator Manuela Repetti, left in June.[23][24]

In April 2016 the presence of two senators of the MpA, who had broken ties with FI while joining ALA and are direct members of it,[25] was marked by a new name of the group in the Senate: Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies (Movement for the Autonomies).[2]

ALA fielded some lists for the 2016 local elections, especially in the South and usually in support of Democratic candidates.[26] In Naples, the largest city in which the party was present, ALA obtained a mere 1.4% of the vote.[27]

References

  1. ↑ Verdini presenta nuovo gruppo Ala: "Ddl Boschi va approvato così com'è"
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Composizione del Gruppo Alleanza Liberalpopolare-Autonomie (Movimento per le Autonomie) nella XVII Legislatura". senato.it. 2015-07-29. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  3. 1 2 "XVII Legislatura - Deputati e Organi Parlamentari - Composizione gruppi Parlamentari". Camera.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  4. ↑ Senato, a Verdini tre vicepresidenti di commissione. Minoranza dem insorge. Renzi: "Non entra in maggioranza"
  5. ↑ Pubblicato: 19/10/2015 19:58 CEST (2015-10-19). "Finanziaria: iniziano le prove generali dei Moderati per Renzi. Verdini fissa il prezzo del sì. Altri tre senatori in arrivo". Huffingtonpost.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  6. ↑ "Verdini dà la linea ai centristi | l'Occidentale" (in Italian). Loccidentale.it. 2014-01-24. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  7. ↑ "Chi sono i Moderati per Renzi? - Termometro Politico". Termometropolitico.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  8. ↑ "Il triste destino di Ncd finisce in balia di Verdini" (in Italian). IlGiornale.it. 2015-10-21. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  9. ↑ "Moderati per Renzi, il progetto di Cicchitto - Termometro Politico". Termometropolitico.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  10. ↑ Francesco Verderami. "Verdini contro Alfano, la battaglia dei centri con Matteo Renzi alla regia". Corriere.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  11. ↑ http://www.democraziasolidale.it/#!Dellai-i-moderati-per-Renzi-non-ci-interessano-abbiamo-unaltra-cultura-politica/c5g8/562767530cf21850812b2393
  12. ↑ http://espresso.repubblica.it/palazzo/2016/05/30/news/alla-camera-scatta-l-operazione-verdini-in-maggioranza-coi-montiani-di-scelta-civica-1.268294
  13. ↑ http://www.affaritaliani.it/politica/palazzo-potere/meglio-puntare-su-verdini-obiettivo-di-renzi-ora-rottamare-angeli-424908.html
  14. ↑ Nuovo PSI il segretario Barani aderisce al gruppo di Verdini ma rischia l'espulsione
  15. ↑ Nuovo PSI, Lucio Barani si dimette da segretario nazionale
  16. ↑ Ponte sullo stretto, PdS-MpA chiede al parlamento il ripristino del progetto
  17. ↑ Redazione Online (2015-09-23). "Forza Italia, dieci parlamentari lasciano il partito per andare nel movimento di Verdini". Corriere.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  18. ↑ Altri articoli dalla categoria » (2015-09-23). "Forza Italia, altre sette deputati e un senatore lasciano il partito e passano con i verdiniani". Repubblica.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  19. ↑ Di Antonio Bucci. "Anche Iurlaro con Verdini, il senatore abbandona Forza Italia". Affaritaliani.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  20. ↑ Altri articoli dalla categoria » (2015-12-22). "Senato, Bondi e Repetti passano con Verdini". Repubblica.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  21. ↑ Pubblicato: 22/12/2015 14:35 CET (2015-12-22). "Bondi e Repetti con Verdini. L'ex "poeta di Arcore" supera i dissidi e aderisce ad Ala: "Non c'è alternativa a Renzi"". Huffingtonpost.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  22. ↑ Altri articoli dalla categoria » (2016-01-21). "Senato, a Verdini tre vicepresidenti di commissione. Minoranza dem insorge. Renzi: "Non entra in maggioranza"". Repubblica.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  23. ↑ http://www.repubblica.it/speciali/politica/elezioni-comunali-edizione2016/2016/06/20/foto/nuovo_trasloco_per_coppia_bondi-repetti_addio_a_gruppo_di_ala-142443898/1/#1
  24. ↑ http://espresso.repubblica.it/palazzo/2016/06/21/news/verdini-addio-i-renziani-bondi-e-repetti-abbandonano-denis-1.273763
  25. ↑ "Rotta intesa FI-Mpa, Scavone: "Vertici siciliani non adeguati" - LiveSicilia Catania". Catania.livesicilia.it. Retrieved 2016-05-06.
  26. ↑ http://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2016/05/05/comunali-2016-la-fase-2-dellalleanza-pd-verdiniani-gli-uomini-di-denis-con-renzi-ovunque-napoli-campania-e-non-solo/2699776/
  27. ↑ http://www.repubblica.it/static/speciale/2016/elezioni/comunali/napoli.html#risultati
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