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History

Foundation

National Alliance was formed by current secretary Gianfranco Fini from the Italian Social Movement (MSI), the ex-neo-fascist party, which was declared dissolved in January 1995, and conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year. Former MSI members were however still the bulk of the new party. Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952 in Bologna) is an Italian politician, currently Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the Government led by Silvio Berlusconi. ... The Italian Social Movement (Movimento sociale italiano ) (MSI) was a neo-Fascist party formed 1946 in the post-World War II period by supporters of the executed dictator Benito Mussolini under the lead of Giorgio Almirante. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, DC), the Christian democratic party of Italy, dominated government for nearly half a century until its demise amid a welter of corruption allegations in 1992-94. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Mani pulite (Italian for clean hands) was a nationwide Italian police investigation into political corruption held in the 1990s, following the scandal of Banco Ambrosiano in 1982, which implicated mafia, Vatican Bank and P2. ... The Italian Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI) was an Italian liberal party. ...

The logo followed a template very similar to the Democratic Party of the Left, with the previous logo in a small circle (as a means of legally preventing others from using it). The name was suggested by an article on the Italian newspaper Il Tempo written in 1992 by Domenico Fisichella, a prominent conservative academic. In January 1995 a party congress officially proclaimed the dissolution of MSI, the rejection of most MSI's ideological stances and the establishment of National Alliance. The Democratic Party of the Left (Italian: Partito democratico della Sinistra, or PdS) was the evolution in a social-democratic direction of the Italian Communist Party, or PCI. It was founded by Achille Occhetto, last secretary of the PCI and first of the PdS. The logo of the PdS consisted... Il Tempo is a thoroughbred racehorse, and is probably New Zealands greatest stayer. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ...

Government participation

The party was part of all three House of Freedoms coalition governments led by Silvio Berlusconi. Gianfranco Fini was notably nominated Deputy Prime Minister after the 2001 general election and was Foreign Minister from November 2004 to May 2006. Casa delle Libertà (CDL; Italian for House of Freedoms), was a major Italian center-right political alliance led by Silvio Berlusconi. ...   (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, media proprietor, and Prime Minister of Italy (President of the Council of Ministers of Italy), a position he has held three times; 1994-1995, 2001-2006 and since 2008. ... A national general election was held in Italy on May 13, 2001 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Logo of National Alliance for the 2006 general election.

When Gianfranco Fini visited Israel in late November 2003 in the function of Italian Deputy Prime Minister, he labeled the racial laws issued by the fascist regime in 1938 as "infamous", as also Giorgio Almirante, historic leader of MSI, had done before^[2]. He also referred to the Italian Social Republic as belonging to the most shameful pages of the past, and considered fascism part of an era of "absolute evil", something which was hrdly acceptable to the few remaining hardliners of the party. As a result, Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of the former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who had been at odds with the party on a number of issues for a long-time, and some hardliners left the party and formed Social Action. Image File history File links Logo_AN_2006. ... Image File history File links Logo_AN_2006. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Giorgio Almirante. ... Anthem Giovinezza (The Youth)¹ From the Gustav Line to the Gothic Line Capital Salò Language(s) Italian Religion None defined. ... Photograph of Alessandra Mussolini from the European Parliament. ... Mussolini redirects here. ... Azione Sociale (Social Action), previously known as Libertà di Azione (Freedom of Action), is an Italian extremely-conservative and neo-fascist political party, led by Alessandra Mussolini, and a splinter group from Alleanza Nazionale. ...

In occasion of the 2006 general election, AN ran within the House of Freedoms (with new allies). Surprisingly the centre-right lost by just 24,000 votes in favor of the centre-left The Union. Individually AN received nearly 5 million votes, amounting to 12.3%. On 27 July 2007, a group of splinters, led by Francesco Storace, formed The Right party, which was officially founded on 10 November. Seven MPs of AN, including Teodoro Buontempo and Daniela Santanchè, joined the new party. A general election for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy was held on April 9 and April 10, 2006. ... The Union (Italian: LUnione) is an Italian centre-left political party coalition. ... is the 208th day of the year (209th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... Francesco Storace (Cassino, 25 January 1959) is an Italian politician. ... The Right (La Destra) is an Italian political party which is to be founded in October 2007 by Francesco Storace after he decided to leave the National Alliance, claiming that it had become too centrist and moderate and in protest against the lack of internal democracy in the party. ... is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Road to a new party

On 18 November, after that Forza Italia collected the signatures of more than 7 million Italians (including Umberto Bossi) against the Romano Prodi's government and in order to ask to the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano to call a fresh election^[3], Silvio Berlusconi announced that Forza Italia would have soon merged or transformed into the The People of Freedom party.^[4][5][6] is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Forza Italia (Forward Italy, FI) [1] is an Italian political party. ... Umberto Bossi (born September 19, 1941) is an Italian politician, leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy or independence for northern Italy. ... The Prodi II Cabinet has been the cabinet of the government of Italy since May 17, 2006. ... The President of the Italian Republic is the head of State of Italy, and represents national unity. ... Giorgio Napolitano (born June 29, 1925), is an Italian politician and former lifetime senator, the eleventh and current President of the Italian Republic. ...   (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, media proprietor, and Prime Minister of Italy (President of the Council of Ministers of Italy), a position he has held three times; 1994-1995, 2001-2006 and since 2008. ...

After the sudden fall of Prodi II Cabinet on 24 January, the break up of The Union coalition and the subsequent political crisis which lead to a fresh general election, Berlusconi hinted on 25 January that Forza Italia would have probably contested its last election and the new party will be officially founded only after that election. In an atmosphere of reconciliation with Gianfranco Fini, Berlusconi also stated that the new party could see the participation of other parties.^[7] Finally, on 8 February, Berlusconi and Fini agreed to form a joint list under the banner of the "The People of Freedom", allied with Lega Nord.^[8] The Prodi II Cabinet has been the cabinet of the government of Italy since May 17, 2006. ... is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Union (Italian: LUnione) is an Italian centre-left political party coalition. ... is the 25th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Ideology

National Alliance's political program emphasizes:

• traditional values, being often close to the position of the Roman Catholic Church, despite some socially liberal and secular attitudes;
• law and order, especially laws aimed at controlling immigration and implementing punishment;
• support for Israel, the United States and European integration;
• prohibitionism about any kind of drugs, including marijuana.

Distinguishing itself from the MSI, the party has distanced itself from Benito Mussolini and Fascism and made efforts to improve relations with Jewish groups. With most hardliners leaving the party, it seeks to present itself as a respectable conservative party and to join forces with Forza Italia in the European People's Party and, eventually, in a united party of the centre-right. A tradition is a story or a custom that is memorized and passed down from generation to generation, originally without the need for a writing system. ... Catholic Church redirects here. ... Social liberalism is either a synonym for new liberalism or a label used by progressive liberal parties in order to differentiate themselves from the more conservative liberal parties, especially when there are two or more liberal parties in a country. ... This article is about secularism. ... In politics, law and order refers to a political platform which supports a strict criminal justice system, especially in relation to violent crime and property crimes, through harsher criminal penalties. ... Look up Punishment in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... European integration is the process of political and economic (and in some cases social and cultural) integration of European states into a tighter bloc. ... Prohibitionism is the belief that citizens will abstain from enjoyable and/or profitable actions if these are typed as illegal, and/or prohibitions are supported by force (enforcement). ... Mussolini redirects here. ... Italian fascism (in Italian, fascismo) was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... For other uses, see Jew (disambiguation). ... Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favor tradition and gradual change, where tradition refers to religious, cultural, or nationally defined beliefs and customs. ... Forza Italia (Forward Italy, FI) [1] is an Italian political party. ... The European Peoples Party (EPP) is the largest transnational European political party. ...

Although the party approves market economy and hold favourable views on liberalizations and the privatization of state industries, however AN is more to the left than Forza Italia on economic issues and sometimes supports statist policies. That is why the party is strong in Rome and Lazio, where most public administrations are. Moreover AN presents itself as a party promoting national cohesion, national identity and patriotism. A market economy (also called a free market economy or a free enterprise economy) is an economic system in which the production and distribution of goods and services take place through the mechanism of free markets (though completley useless to some dumbasses) guided by a free price system. ... In general, liberalization refers to a relaxation of previous government restrictions, usually in areas of social or economic policy. ... Origins People Theories Ideas Movements Topics Related Philosophy Portal Politics Portal        Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of business from the public sector (government) to the private sector (business). ... This article is about state ownership. ... Statism (or Etatism) is a term that is used to describe: Specific instances of state intervention in personal, social or economic matters. ... For other uses, see Rome (disambiguation). ... For the football club, see S.S. Lazio Lazio (Latium in Latin) is a regione of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzi, Marche, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... For other uses, see Nation (disambiguation). ... Defence of the fatherland is a commonplace of patriotism: The statue in the courtyard of École polytechnique, Paris, commemorating the students involvement in defending France against the 1814 invasion of the Coalition. ...

Regarding institutional reforms, the party is a long-time supporter presidentialism and first-past-the-post, and, recently, it came to support also federalism and to fully accept the alliance with Lega Nord, although the relations with that party can be tense at times, especially about issues regarding national unity. A presidential system, or a congressional system, is a system of government of a republic where the executive branch is elected separately from the legislative. ... An example of a plurality ballot. ... For theological federalism, see Covenant Theology. ... The Lega Nord (Northern League, LN), whose complete name is Lega Nord for the Independence of Padania, is an Italian political party founded in 1991 as a federation of several regional parties in northern Italy, most of which had arisen, and all of which had expanded their share of the...

Gianfranco Fini, a modernizer, has impressed an ambitious political line to the party, combining the pillars of conservative ideology like security, family values and patriotism with a progressive approach in other areas such as stem-cell research and supporting voting rights for legal aliens. Anyway some of these positions are not shared by many members of the party, most of whom staunchly oppose stem-cell research and artificial insemination. Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952 in Bologna) is an Italian politician, currently Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the Government led by Silvio Berlusconi. ... Mouse embryonic stem cells. ... AIH redirects here. ...

Factions

National Alliance is a heterogeneous political party and within it members are divided in different factions, some of them very organized:

• Protagonist Right (Destra Protagonista), headed by Maurizio Gasparri and Ignazio La Russa, is the bigger faction and the closest to Forza Italia, due to its liberal-conservative stances.
• New Alliance (Nuova Alleanza), formerly called Right and Freedom (Destra e Libertà), headed by Altero Matteoli and Adolfo Urso, is formed by the staunchest supporters of Gianfranco Fini within the party and supports a liberal political agenda.
• Social Right (Destra Sociale), led by Gianni Alemanno, advocates a more "social" approach to economic policy and is considered at the right of the party. It has close ties with the General Union of Labour.
• Christian Reformists (Cristiano Riformisti), led by Antonio Mazzochi (ex-DC) and Pietro Armani (ex-PRI), is a new Christian-democratic faction within the party, which campaigns for Catholic values and for the admission of the party into the European People's Party.

In the party there is also a group named Ethic-Religious Council, whose board members include Gaetano Rebecchini (Founder, ex-DC), Riccardo Pedrizzi (President), Franco Tofoni (Vice President), Luigi Gagliardi (General Secretary), Alfredo Mantovano, Antonio Mazzocchi and Riccardo Migliori. This is not a faction but an official organism within the party and express the official position of the party on ethical and religious matters. Sometimes the group criticizes Gianfranco Fini for his liberal views on abortion, artificial insemination and stem-cell research, which led some notable ex-DC members as Publio Fiori to leave the party. Some members of the Council, such as Pedrizzi and Mantovano are described as members of an unofficial Catholic Right faction. Maurizio Gasparri (Rome, 18th July 1956) is an italian politician. ... Forza Italia (Forward Italy, FI) [1] is an Italian political party. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Altero Matteoli is the Italian Environment Minister as of October 2005. ... Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952 in Bologna) is an Italian politician, currently Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the Government led by Silvio Berlusconi. ... Liberalism is an ideology, philosophical view, and political tradition which holds that liberty is the primary political value. ... Christian Democracy (Democrazia Cristiana, DC), the Christian democratic party of Italy, dominated government for nearly half a century until its demise amid a welter of corruption allegations in 1992-94. ... The Italian Republican Party (Partito Repubblicano Italiano) is an old left liberal party in Italy, with roots to Giuseppe Mazzini. ... Christian democracy is a diverse political ideology and movement. ... The European Peoples Party (EPP) is the largest transnational European political party. ... Gianfranco Fini Gianfranco Fini (born January 3, 1952 in Bologna) is an Italian politician, currently Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the Government led by Silvio Berlusconi. ...

Popular support

The party has roughly 10-15% support across Italy, having its stongholds in Central and Southern Italy (Lazio 18.6%, Umbria 15.2%, Marche 14.3%, Abruzzo 14.3%, Puglia 13.2%, Sardinia 12.9%, Tuscany 12.6% and Campania 12.6% in the last general election), scoring badly in Lombardy (10.2%) and Sicily (10.9%), while competiting in the North-East (Friuli-Venezia Giulia 15.5% and Veneto 11.3%). Central Italy, encompasses six of the countrys 20 autonomous regions: Abruzzo Lazio Marche Molise Toscana Umbria Although the regions of Abruzzo and Molise are geographically located in Central Italy, the European office for statistics (Eurostat) lists these two regions within Southern Italy. ... Southern Italy, often referred to in Italian as the Mezzogiorno (a term first used in 19th century in comparison with French Midi ) encompasses six of the countrys 20 regions: Basilicata Campania Calabria Puglia Sicilia Sardinia Sicilia although it is geographically and administratively included in Insular Italy, it has a... For the football club, see S.S. Lazio Lazio (Latium in Latin) is a regione of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany, Umbria, Abruzzi, Marche, Molise, Campania and the Tyrrhenian Sea. ... Umbria is a region of central Italy, bordered by Tuscany to the west, the Marche to the east and Lazio to the south. ... // The Marche (plural, originally le marche de Ancona = the Marches of Ancona) are a region of Central Italy, bordering Emilia-Romagna north, Tuscany to the north-west, Umbria to west, Abruzzo and Latium to the south and the Adriatic Sea to the east. ... “Abruzzi” redirects here. ... Apulia is a region of Italy (called Puglia in Italian), bordering on Molise to the north-west, Campania to the south-west, Basilicata to the south, the Adriatic Sea to the east and the Ionian Sea to the south-east. ... Sardinia (pronounced ; Italian: ; Sardinian: or ) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea (after Sicily). ... For other uses, see Tuscany (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Campania (disambiguation). ... A general election for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy was held on April 9 and April 10, 2006. ... For the village of the same name in Ontario, Canada, see Lombardy, Ontario. ... Sicily ( in Italian and Sicilian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,708 km² (9,926 sq. ... Look up North in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Veneto is my fatherland. ...

The party had a good showing in the first general election to which it took part (13.5% in 1994) and reached 15.7% in 1996, when Fini tried for the first time to replace Silvio Berlusconi as leader of the centre-right. From that moment the party suffered an electoral decline, but remains the third force of Italian politics. An early national general election was held in Italy on March 27, 1994 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. ... An early national general election was held in Italy on April 21, 1996 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. ...   (born 29 September 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, media proprietor, and Prime Minister of Italy (President of the Council of Ministers of Italy), a position he has held three times; 1994-1995, 2001-2006 and since 2008. ...

In the 2006 general election, the last election to which the party took party with its own list, it won 12.3% of the vote, securing 71 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 41 in the Senate. In the 2008 general election the party got 90 deputies^[9] and 48 senators^[10] elected. A general election for the renewal of the two Chambers of the Parliament of Italy was held on April 9 and April 10, 2006. ...

The electoral results of National Alliance in the 10 most populated Regions of Italy are shown in the table below. These are ranked lists of the regions of Italy. ...

Leadership

• President: Gianfranco Fini (1995–2008), Ignazio La Russa (regent, 2008–...)
  • Head of Political Secretariat: Donato Lamorte (1995–2002), Andrea Ronchi (2002–2004), Carmelo Briguglio (2002–2004), Donato Lamorte (2004–...)
  • Spokesman: Maurizio Gasparri (1995–1997), Adolfo Urso (1997–2001), Antonio Landolfi (2001–2005), Andrea Ronchi (2005-...)
• President of National Assembly: Domenico Fisichella (1995–2005), Marcello Perina (2005–2006), Francesco Servello (2006–...)
• Organizational Coordinator: Giuseppe Tatarella (1995–1998), Altero Matteoli (1998–2002), Donato Lamorte (2002–2004), Italo Bocchino (2004–2005), Marco Martinelli (2005–...)

• Party Leader at the Chamber of Deputies: Raffaele Valesinese (1994–1996), Giuseppe Tatarella (1996–1998), Gustavo Selva (1998–2001), Ignazio La Russa (2001–2003), Gian Franco Anedda (2003–2004), Iganzio La Russa (2004–2008), Italo Bocchino (deputy-leader of PdL's group, 2008–...)
• Party Leader at the Senate: Giulio Maceratini (1994–2001), Domenico Nania (2001–2006), Altero Matteoli (2006-2008), Maurizio Gasparri (leader of PdL's group, 2008–...)
• Party Leader at the European Parliament: Cristiana Muscardini (1994–2004), Roberta Angelilli (2004–...)

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External links

• Official website
• Azione Giovani

Factions

• Protagonist Right
• New Alliance
• Social Right
• Christian Reformists

Sources

• Continuity or change in the ideology of the Alleanza Nazionale
• The annual report of Anti-semitism worldwide, 1997, 1999, 2003 and between.

References

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