Alto Adige in the Heart (, AAC) was a

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active in

South Tyrol South Tyrol ( , ; ; ), officially the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol, is an autonomous administrative division, autonomous provinces of Italy, province in northern Italy. Together with Trentino, South Tyrol forms the autonomo ...

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. The party was led by Alessandro Urzì and sought to represent the Italian-speaking minority in the province, whose official Italian name is ''Alto Adige''. AAC was formed in January 2013 as a locally based party upon the fragmentation of

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 t ...

(PdL), Italy's main centre-right party, in the Province. Its leader Alessandro Urzì, a long-time conservative politician who had been a member of the

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, the PdL and finally

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, was the most voted candidate among Italian-speakers in the 2008 provincial election. In June Urzì broadened the base of his party by welcoming Maurizio Vezzali, another dissenting PdL provincial councillor who had been previously active with

Forza Italia (FI; ) was a centre-right liberal-conservative political party in Italy, with Christian democratic,Chiara Moroni, , Carocci, Rome 2008 liberalOreste Massari, ''I partiti politici nelle democrazie contempoiranee'', Laterza, Rome-Bari 2004 (esp ...

. In the 2013 provincial election AAC obtained 2.1% of the vote and Urzì was re-elected to the Provincial Council, while all his former opponents in the PdL lost (the only elect of the Forza Alto Adige– Lega Nord Alto Adige/Südtirol– Team Autonomie list was Elena Artioli, member of the League and multi-lingual). In the run-up of the 2018 general election Urzì aligned the party with

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at the country-level. On 6 July the party merged into Brothers of Italy.L’ALTO ADIGE NEL CUORE ADERISCE A FRATELLI D’ITALIA. COSÌ GLI ITALIANI PIÙ FORTI

References

External links

Official webpage
{{South Tyrolean political parties Defunct political parties in South Tyrol National conservative parties Defunct nationalist parties in Italy Political parties established in 2013 Political parties disestablished in 2020