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Great Autonomies and Freedom (, GAL) was a miscellaneous and highly heterogeneous, mainly
centre-right Centre-right politics is the set of right-wing politics, right-wing political ideologies that lean closer to the political centre. It is commonly associated with conservatism, Christian democracy, liberal conservatism, and conservative liberalis ...
, regionalist and
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,
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active in the
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. The group was formed in March 2013 by senators elected with
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(PdL) and
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(LN) to counterbalance the
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group, a
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outfit allied with the Democratic Party (PD). Only three senators were members of the group for five years: Mario Ferrara, Giovanni Mauro and Giulio Tremonti (the first two elected with the PdL in representation of Great South; the latter elected with the LN and member of the group since May 2013). In the following years, the group changed its scope, as several of its members started to support the Renzi Cabinet, and, almost completely, its composition: the LN members returned to their home group, most PdL and, later,
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 ...
(FI) members switched to other parties and groups (in July 2015, in particular, five senators left to join a fully pro-Renzi group, the
Liberal Popular Alliance The Liberal Popular Alliance, whose full name was Liberal Popular Alliance – Autonomies (, ALA), was a centrist and liberal political party in Italy. ALA members were known as ''Verdiniani'', from the name of their leader Denis Verdini, who w ...
, ALA), and senators of different ideological and electoral backgrounds joined, including, for some time, members of the
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and
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(IdV), both left-leaning. In May 2017 the group was joined by seven senators of
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(DI) and left by five senators, including the four senators of Identity and Action (IdeA), who launched the alternative Federation of Freedom (FdL) group. In December the group was finally left by the seven DI senators, who were founding members of
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(NcI), and joined by four senators of the Union of the Centre (UdC). IdeA and the UdC were partners in the
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. As a result, after several changes in its composition (see below) and naming, as of December 2017 the group's full name was Great Autonomies and Freedom – Union of Christian and Centre Democrats. In its final composition, the group was overwhelmingly opposed to
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.


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