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Protagonist Right
Protagonist Right (''Destra Protagonista'') was a national-conservative faction within National Alliance, a political party in Italy. The faction was founded in July 1999 by the followers of Giuseppe Tatarella, one of the party's charismatic leader who had died in February of that year. The faction was very close to Silvio Berlusconi, leader of Forza Italia and the People of Freedom/ House of Freedoms coalition, and it was somewhat critical to Gianfranco Fini, leader of National Alliance, instead. Its main members included Ignazio La Russa Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa (born 18 July 1947) is an Italian politician who is serving as President of the Senate of the Republic (Italy), president of the Senate of the Republic since 2022 President of the Italian Senate election, 13 Octob ..., Maurizio Gasparri, Mario Landolfi, Salvatore Tatarella and Italo Bocchino. Protagonist Right was the party's largest faction and in the 2002 congress had more than 40% of the delegates. Si ...
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National Conservatism
National conservatism is a nationalist variant of conservatism that concentrates on upholding national and cultural identity, communitarianism and the public role of religion. It shares aspects of traditionalist conservatism and social conservatism, while departing from economic liberalism and libertarianism, as well as taking a more pragmatic approach to regulatory economics and protectionism. It opposes the basic precepts of enlightenment liberalism such as individualism and the universality of human rights, and in America and Europe is majoritarian populist. National conservatives usually combine conservatism with nationalist stances, emphasizing cultural conservatism, family values and opposition to illegal immigration or opposition to immigration per se. National conservative parties often have roots in environments with a rural, traditionalist or peripheral basis, contrasting with the more urban support base of liberal conservative parties. In Europe, national co ...
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Mario Landolfi
Mario Landolfi (born 6 June 1959) is an Italian politician, served as a member of the parliament and minister of communications. Early life Landolfi was born in Mondragone, the province of Caserta, on 6 June 1959. Career Landolfi was a council member of Mondragone beginning in 1983. He became a member of the Italian parliament in June 2001, being part of the National Alliance party. In addition, Landolfi served as the spokesman of the AN. He was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013. He served as the member of different parliamentary commissions. He was appointed Minister of communications to the cabinet led by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in a reshuffle on 23 April 2005, replacing another AN deputy Maurizio Gasparri in the post. On 17 May 2006, Landolfi's term ended, and Paolo Gentiloni Paolo Gentiloni Silveri (; born 22 November 1954) is an Italian politician who was European Commissioner for Economy in the von der Leyen Commission from 1 December 2 ...
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Our Right
Our Right (''La Nostra Destra'') was a short-lived national-conservative faction within The People of Freedom (PdL), a political party in Italy. Founded on 3 May 2010 by Ignazio La Russa on the ashes of Protagonist Right, a major faction within National Alliance (merged into PdL in 2009), Our Right was active primarily in Lombardy, where La Russa and his brother Romano had their power base, despite hailing from Sicily. The faction was launched as a response to Generation Italy, the minority faction around Gianfranco Fini which opposed Silvio Berlusconi and eventually left the party in order to launch Future and Freedom. Soon after the establishment of the faction, La Russa joined forces with his long-time faction-mate Maurizio Gasparri Maurizio Gasparri (born 18 July 1956) is an Italian politician. Career Gasparri was born in Rome to parents of Campania, Campanian origins. He was educated at the Liceo Torquato Tasso in the city. In his civilian life he worked as a journa ...
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Protagonist Italy
Protagonist Italy (''Italia Protagonista'') is a national conservative foundation and think tank connected to Forza Italia (formerly PdL), a political party in Italy. Founded in 2009 by Maurizio Gasparri, it can be seen as a continuation of Protagonist Right, a major faction within National Alliance (merged into PdL in 2009), through the PdL. In June 2010 the group was joined by Ignazio La Russa, who was the leader of Protagonist Right along with Gasparri. Protagonist Italy is a keen supporter of the leadership of Silvio Berlusconi and opposes the moves of Generation Italy, the minority faction around Gianfranco Fini. In this respect the faction collaborates with the two other main groups coming from National Alliance which are loyal to Berlusconi, New Italy (leader: Gianni Alemanno) and Foundation of Freedom (leader: Altero Matteoli), along with some minor groups (Christian Reformists, Movement for Italy Movement for Italy (''Movimento per l'Italia'', MpI) was a conservative p ...
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Future And Freedom
Future and Freedom (), whose full name was Future and Freedom for Italy (''Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia'', abbreviated to FLI), was a list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy, comprising both liberal conservatism, liberal and national conservatism, 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 (Italy), National Alliance (AN) and co-founder of the PdL in 2009, had taken a long journey from post-Italian Fascism, fascism to become a liberal conservatism, liberal conservative. Soon after the PdL's foundation, he started to become a critic of Berlusconi IV Cabinet, 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 pres ...
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Generation Italy
Generation Italy (''Generazione Italia'', GI) or ''Finiani'' was an association connected to Future and Freedom (FLI), a political party in Italy, and earlier to The People of Freedom (PdL). Although most of its members came from the conservative National Alliance (AN) and were earlier members of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), GI was a social liberal wing within the PdL. The faction's members identified themselves as close supporters of Gianfranco Fini, former leader of MSI/AN and frequent critic of Silvio Berlusconi from his post of President of the Chamber of Deputies. During the years, the former post-fascist leader had taken controversial stances on stem cell research, end of life issues, advance health care directive and immigration. Fini was also an outspoken supporter of the principle of separation of church and state and of a more structured party organisation. Although most ''Finiani'', such as Bocchino, Adolfo Urso, Fabio Granata, Carmelo Briguglio, Flavia Perina a ...
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The People Of Freedom
The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later transformed into a party during a party congress on 27–29 March 2009. The party's leading members included Angelino Alfano (national secretary), Renato Schifani, Renato Brunetta, Roberto Formigoni, Maurizio Sacconi, Maurizio Gasparri, Mariastella Gelmini, Antonio Martino, Giancarlo Galan, Maurizio Lupi, Gaetano Quagliariello, Daniela Santanchè, Sandro Bondi, and Raffaele Fitto. The PdL formed Italy's government from 2008 to 2011 in coalition with Lega Nord. After having supported Mario Monti's technocratic government in 2011–2012, the party was part of Enrico Letta's government with the Democratic Party, Civic Choice and the Union of the Centre. Alfano functioned as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. In Ju ...
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Italo Bocchino
Italo Bocchino (born 6 July 1967) is an Italian politician and journalist. Biography Bocchino was born in Naples, and in his youth, he was a member of the Italian Social Movement (a post-fascist formation) and worked as a spokesman for the member of parliament Giuseppe Tatarella, and subsequently as a journalist for '' Il Secolo d'Italia''. In 1996, 2001 and 2006 he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for National Alliance, the party founded by Gianfranco Fini to replace MSI. In 2005 he was the centre-right candidate for the presidency of the Campania region, but was defeated by Antonio Bassolino. In 2007 he founded ''Con'', a conservative magazine. Despite having been elected to the Italian Parliament into The People of Freedom lists in 2008, Bocchino in 2010 followed Gianfranco Fini to found Future and Freedom, a centre-right party which aims to counter Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; 29 September 193612 June 2023) was an Italian Media pro ...
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Salvatore Tatarella
Salvatore Tatarella (11 October 1947 – 28 January 2017) was an Italian politician. Biography and career Graduated in law at the University of Bari, in 1972 he became a member of the central committee of the Italian Social Movement. From 1993 to 1999 he was Mayor of Cerignola and in the 1994 European Parliament election he was elected MEP. In 1999 he resigned as MEP and was candidate to the Chamber of Deputies in the supplementary election of Bari, in the vacant district for the death of his brother Pinuccio, and he was elected. In the 2001 Italian general election he was candidate in the district of Cerignola, but he wasn't re-elected. In the European Parliament Election of 2004 he was again elected MEP with National Alliance for the Southern electoral district, and in the 2009 European Parliament election he was re-elected with The People of Freedom. In 2010 he left the PdL and joined Future and Freedom, the new party of Gianfranco Fini. He sat on the European Parliament's ...
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Maurizio Gasparri
Maurizio Gasparri (born 18 July 1956) is an Italian politician. Career Gasparri was born in Rome to parents of Campania, Campanian origins. He was educated at the Liceo Torquato Tasso in the city. In his civilian life he worked as a journalist, becoming editor-in-chief of the ''Secolo d'Italia'', the daily paper of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI). Political career Gasparri was formerly a member of the MSI - where he was deputy secretary of the movement's Youth Front (Italy), Youth Front (''Fronte della Gioventù''; FdG) throughout the mid-1980s - and the National Alliance (Italy), National Alliance (AN). From 2001 to 2005 he served as the Italian Minister of Communications, Minister of Communications in the Berlusconi II Cabinet. It was during his time in this role that he pushed for controversial amendments to the country's telecommunications legislation, known collectively as the ''legge Gasparri''. Following a weak showing in the regional elections of 2005, he ...
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National Alliance (Italy)
National Alliance (, AN) was a national conservative political party in Italy.Luciano Bardi - Piero Ignazi - Oreste Massari, ''I partiti italiani'', Egea 2007, pp. 151, 173n. It was the successor of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by former followers of Benito Mussolini that had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideology, a move known as ', during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolving into the new party in 1995. Gianfranco Fini was the leader of AN from its foundation through 2008, after being elected President of the Chamber of Deputies (Italy), President of the Chamber of Deputies. Fini was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed the merger of the party with Forza Italia (FI) into The People of Freedom (PdL) in 2009. During AN's last congress, it was decided that a Foundation (nonprofit), foundation would manage the assets and the political legacy of MSI/AN; as a result, the Nationa ...
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Ignazio La Russa
Ignazio Benito Maria La Russa (born 18 July 1947) is an Italian politician who is serving as President of the Senate of the Republic (Italy), president of the Senate of the Republic since 2022 President of the Italian Senate election, 13 October 2022. He is the first politician with a neo-fascist background to hold the position of President of the Senate, the second highest-ranking office of the Italian Republic. La Russa also served as Italian Minister of Defence, Minister of Defence in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet from 2008 to 2011, and as Vice President of the Senate of the Republic (Italy), Senate of the Republic from 2018 until 2022. Moreover, during his long-time career, he held various posts within his parties. In 2008, he became acting president of the National Alliance (Italy), National Alliance, which on 29 March 2009 merged into The People of Freedom, of which he was one of the three national coordinators until 17 December 2012, when he launched Brothers of Italy (FdI). ...
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