The Autonomy () was a heterogeneous

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, formed in the run-up to the

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in order to overcome the 4% threshold introduced in the electoral law in February 2009. The list was affiliated to

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and disbanded after the European election. The list included: * The Right (LD,

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, leader: Francesco Storace), including

Sicilian Alliance The Sicilian Alliance ( it.: ''Alleanza Siciliana''; sic.: ''Allianza Siciliana'') was a minor autonomist and national-conservative political party in Sicily, Italy. It was founded in 2005 and was led by Nello Musumeci Sebastiano "Nello" Mu ...

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(MpA, regionalist/

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, leader: Raffaele Lombardo) * Pensioners' Party (PP,

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/ pensioners' interests, leader: Carlo Fatuzzo) * Alliance of the Centre (AdC,

, leader: Francesco Pionati) *candidates of minor regionalist parties: Max Ferrari (

Lombardia Autonoma Lega Padana Lombardia (Padanian League Lombardy), briefly in 2008 part of the Lombardia Autonoma (''Self-Governing Lombardy'') coalition, was a Padanism, Padanist and autonomist list of political parties in Italy, political party active in Lombardy, ...

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( Autonomist Trentino),

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( S.O.S. Italy). *disgruntled former members of

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, Francesco Musotto, Eleonora Lo Curto,

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, Paolo Ricciotti, etc. The alliance between The Right and the MpA was made possible also by the common views on Sicilian autonomy of Raffaele Lombardo, leader of the MpA and President of Sicily, and

Nello Musumeci Sebastiano "Nello" Musumeci (born 21 January 1955) is a right-wing Italian politician. Musumeci is serving as Minister for Civil Protection and Maritime Policies since 22 October 2022 in the government of Giorgia Meloni. He previously served as ...

, MEP for The Right and formerly leader of

, an autonomist party. Nello Musumeci and Carlo Fatuzzo, leader of the PP, were the only two outgoing MEPs of the coalition. Tricolour Flame was also to have been part of the coalition, but declined.

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