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I The South
I the South (''Io Sud'', IS), was a conservative regionalist political party in Italy, which has been a faction of Brothers of Italy since 2014. The party emerged in 2009 as an Apulian split from National Alliance (AN) led by Adriana Poli Bortone, shortly before AN was merged into The People of Freedom (PdL). Soon after the party approached to the Union of the Centre (UdC) in order to form a centrist party as an alternative to the PdL, and in this perspective Poli Bortone joined UdC in a common group in the Senate. At the 2009 provincial elections the party won 7.3% in Lecce (while Poli Bortone won 21.9% as candidate for President supported also by the UdC), 3.4% in Taranto and 2.0% in Brindisi. In the 2010 Apulian regional election Poli Bortone ran for President supported also by the regional section of the Union of the Centre, that is the main component of UdC. Poli Bortone gained 8.7% of the vote, while IS gained a mere 2.9%. Since then, Poli Bortone distanced herself from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Poli Bortone
Adriana Poli Bortone (born 25 August 1943) is an Italian politician who was a member of the European Parliament from 1999 to 2008. She represented Southern Italy. She was mayor of Lecce from 1998 to 2007 and since 2024. Biography Born in Lecce, she became Assistant lecturer in Latin literature at the University of Lecce in 1965. In 1985, she became an associate professor of the same subject. From 1967 to 1998, she was a member of the Lecce Municipal Council and, from 1981 to 1990, National secretary for women of the Italian Social Movement. From 1990 to 2000, she was also a member of the national executive of MSI and, subsequently, the National Alliance. Poli Bortone was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies in 1983, and in 1994, she was appointed for a month as Vice President of the Chamber. In 1994, she also served as Agriculture Minister in the Berlusconi I Cabinet. In 1998, she was elected mayor of Lecce and re-confirmed in 2002. In the 1999 European Parli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Taranto
The province of Taranto (; Tarantino: ; Salentino: ), previously known as the province of the Ionian, is a province in the Apulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Taranto. It has an area of , and a total population of 581,092 (2017). The province contains 29 ''comuni'' (: ''comune''). The coat of arms of the province contains a scorpion, which Pyrrhus is thought to have seen when looking down at Taranto. History When Italy was unified, the province of Lecce was formed; the western section of this later became the current province of Taranto. On 23 September 1923, Taranto became the capital of a new province based on the ancient Terra d'Otranto, in recognition of the important role the city had served since ancient times. Until 1951, the new province was called the "Province of the Ionian". The scorpion on the city's coat of arms may have been used as its emblem in ancient times, on the suggestion of Pyrrhus of Epirus, who was an ally of Taranto in a war against Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future And Freedom For Italy
Future and Freedom (), whose full name was Future and Freedom for Italy (''Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia'', abbreviated to FLI), was a political party in Italy, comprising both liberal and national conservative elements. FLI was formed by followers of Gianfranco Fini in July 2010 as a split from The People of Freedom (PdL), the major Italian centre-right party of the time, led by Silvio Berlusconi. Fini, former leader of the Italian Social Movement (MSI) and National Alliance (AN) and co-founder of the PdL in 2009, had taken a long journey from post-fascism to become a liberal conservative. Soon after the PdL's foundation, he started to become a critic of Berlusconi's government and leadership style. The core of FLI was constituted by Generation Italy (GI), led by Italo Bocchino, who was also appointed vice president of the party by Fini. FLI members were mostly former MSI/AN stalwarts, with some notable exceptions. History Background Somewhat surprisingly, Gianfranco Fini, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Storace
Francesco Storace (born 25 January 1959) is an Italian politician and journalist. Biography Born in Cassino, in the Lazio region, Storace began his career at the right-wing newspaper '' Il Secolo d'Italia'' until entering the ranks of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party, and later of National Alliance (AN), a post-fascist party that repudiated of extremism. He was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for the first time in 1994. At the time, he was the spokesman of Gianfranco Fini. From 1996 to 2000, he was chairman of the bicameral Commission supervising the RAI. In April 2000, Storace was elected president of Lazio. Among the measures taken by Storace, there was the opening of Sant'Andrea hospital and other health centres.Paghiamo ancora i debiti di Badaloni'', "Il quotidiano della Tuscia"]. His health management of Lazio won praise for Giulio Andreotti and some members of the Vatican curia. In 2005, he failed the re-election, defeated by the centre-l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right (Italy)
The Right () was a neo-fascist and national-conservative political party in Italy. Its founder and leader was Francesco Storace. History Foundation On 3 July 2007 Storace announced his resignation from National Alliance (AN) in a letter posted on his website, claiming that AN had become too centrist and moderate and in protest against the lack of internal democracy in the party, and on 27 July he announced the formation of a new party. On 10 November the party was founded in a constituent congress in Rome. On that occasion the Sicilian Alliance of Nello Musumeci merged into The Right, and Daniela Santanchè, a leading female member of AN, left the party to join The Right, broadening its appeal, as she was close to the Italian Liberal Party (PLI) and never joined the Italian Social Movement (MSI). In January 2008 Unitalia, a minor party in South Tyrol, and Taverna List, a minor party in the province of Trentino, merged into The Right. As the party was organised as a federa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Movement For National Alliance
The Movement for the National Alliance () was a coalition of right-wing political parties in Italy, which was an unsuccessful attempt to refound the National Alliance. History On 8 November 2013, Luca Romagnoli, secretary of Tricolour Flame, together with the secretary of The Right Francesco Storace, the regent of Future and Freedom Roberto Menia, the leader of I the South Adriana Poli Bortone, Domenico Nania of the association ''Nuova Alleanza'', Oreste Tofani of the association ''Nazione Sovrana'', Antonio Buonfiglio of the association ''Il Popolo della Vita'' and Roberto Buonasorte, editor of the online newspaper ''Il Giornale d'Italia'', founded the Movement for National Alliance, a federation of right-wing movements inspired by National Alliance (AN), a party which had merged with Forza Italia to form The People of Freedom in 2009. The Social Right was formed on the 16 December 2013 following the expulsion of Luca Romagnoli from the Tricolour Flame, after he joined togethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calabria
Calabria is a Regions of Italy, region in Southern Italy. It is a peninsula bordered by the region Basilicata to the north, the Ionian Sea to the east, the Strait of Messina to the southwest, which separates it from Sicily, and the Tyrrhenian Sea to the west. It has 1,832,147 residents as of 2025 across a total area of . Catanzaro is the region's capital. Calabria is the birthplace of the name of Italy, given to it by the Ancient Greeks who settled in this land starting from the 8th century BC. They established the first cities, mainly on the coast, as Greek colonisation, Greek colonies. During this period Calabria was the heart of Magna Graecia, home of key figures in history such as Pythagoras, Herodotus and Milo of Croton, Milo. In Roman times, it was part of the ''Regio III Lucania et Bruttii'', a region of Roman Italy, Augustan Italy. After the Gothic War (535–554), Gothic War, it became and remained for five centuries a Byzantine empire, Byzantine dominion, fully recove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campania
Campania is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy located in Southern Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian Peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the island of Capri. The capital of the region is Naples. Campania has a population of 5,575,025 as of 2025, making it Italy's third most populous region, and, with an area of , its most densely populated region. Based on its Gross domestic product, GDP, Campania is also the most economically productive region in Southern Italy List of Italian regions by GDP, and the 7th most productive in the whole country. Naples' urban area, which is in Campania, is the List of urban areas in the European Union, eighth most populous in the European Union. The region is home to 10 of the 58 List of World Heritage Sites in Italy, UNESCO sites in Italy, including Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Amalfi Coast, the Longobardian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basilicata
Basilicata (, ; ), also known by its ancient name Lucania (, , ), is an administrative region in Southern Italy, bordering on Campania to the west, Apulia to the north and east, and Calabria to the south. It has two coastlines: a 30-kilometre stretch on the Gulf of Policastro (Tyrrhenian Sea) between Campania and Calabria, and a longer coastline along the Gulf of Taranto (Ionian Sea) between Calabria and Apulia. The region can be thought of as "the arch" of "the boot" of Italy, with Calabria functioning as "the toe" and Apulia "the heel". The region covers about . In 2021, the population was slightly over 540,000. The regional capital is Potenza. The region comprises two provinces: Potenza and Matera. Its inhabitants are generally known as Lucanians (), and to a lesser extent as or by other very rare terms. In ancient times, part of its territory belonged to Magna Graecia, subject to coastal Greek colonies (including Sybaris). Later the region was conquered by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
We The South
We the South (, NS), whose complete name is Freedom and Autonomy - We the South (), is a regionalist political party in Italy based in the Campania but seeking to represent the whole South. History The party emerged in January 2010 as a split from the Movement for the Autonomies (MpA). MpA, a Sicilian-based regionalist party active all around Southern Italy, had been in coalition, both at national and regional level, with The People of Freedom (PdL), the centre-right party led by Silvio Berlusconi since 2006, but had become critical of him. In December 2009 Raffaele Lombardo, leader of MpA and President of Sicily, had formed his third cabinet including ministers from his MpA party, the PdL–Sicily and the newly formed regional section of Alliance for Italy, plus some independents, including one who was close to the opposition Democratic Party (PD). No members of the "official" PdL were included. The break-up of the alliance with the official PdL in Sicily and all around the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Force Of The South
Force of the South (, FdS) was a liberal-conservative political party in Italy based in Sicily. In September 2010, after years of weighting, Gianfranco Micciché, long-time leader of Forza Italia and, later, The People of Freedom (PdL) in Sicily and Under-Secretary in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet, announced his exit from the PdL and his intention to launch a "Sicilian people's party", which would have then merged with other southern "people's parties" to form the "Party of the South". In October 2010 Force of the South was launched. Only five out of 16 regional deputies of the PdL–Sicily, the faction of the PdL led by Micciché, followed their leader into the new party. The party was officially launched during a convention in Palermo on 30 October 2010, which was attended also by Stefania Prestigiacomo, who, although very supportive of Micciché, chose to stay in the PdL. In that occasion Micciché announced that some 25 deputies and senators were ready to join FdS. Finally only ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Cohesion
National Cohesion (''Coesione Nazionale'', CN) was a centre-right parliamentary group active in the Italian Senate. Launched on 2 March 2011, the group was supportive of Berlusconi IV Cabinet. The group's president was Pasquale Viespoli, formerly leader of Future and Freedom in the Senate, and its counterpart in the Chamber of Deputies was People and Territory. Most of its members were elected in Southern Italy. From 5 May to 12 November 2011 the group was represented in government by Riccardo Villari, under-secretary at the Ministry of Culture. Composition The group included: *former members of Future and Freedom (''Future and Freedom'', FLI) **ideology: National conservatism, liberal conservatism **leader: Pasquale Viespoli **3 senators: Giuseppe Menardi, Maurizio Saia, Pasquale Viespoli *Force of the South (''Forza del Sud'', FdS) **ideology: Liberal conservatism, regionalism **leader: Gianfranco Micciché **3 senators: Roberto Centaro, Mario Ferrara, Salvo Fleres *The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
