Bonino List
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Bonino List
Lista Bonino |
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| Leader | Emma Bonino |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Dissolved | 2004 |
| Preceded by | Pannella List |
| Succeeded by | Bonino-Pannella List |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Libertarianism Pro-Europeanism |
| European Parliament group | Technical Group of Independents (1999–2001) |
The Bonino List (Italian: Lista Bonino) was a libertarianelectoral list active in Italy from 1999 to 2004. Named after Emma Bonino, a leading who had been European Commissioner in 1995–1999 (appointed by Silvio Berlusconi), after the unsuccessful "Emma for President" campaign, the list was the successor of the Pannella List, active from 1992 to 1999.
In the 1999 European Parliament election the Bonino List, thanks to its standard-bearer's popularity and a massive use of commercials, won a surprisingly high 8.5% of the vote and 7 MEPs (Emma Bonino, Marco Pannella, Benedetto Della Vedova, Marco Cappato, Olivier Dupuis, Maurizio Turco and Gianfranco Dell'Alba), thus becoming the fourth largest party in the country by European representation. The MEPs co-founded the short-lived Technical Group of Independents.
The list, which gathered the support of disgruntled voters, women and young people, did particularly well in Northern Italy (13.2% in Piedmont, 13.0% in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 11.9% in Veneto, 11.6% in Lombardy, 10.8% in Liguria), where its proposed libertarian policies were very popular, especially among disappointed Lega Nord's supporters, while it did fairly worse in the conservative and statist South (below 4% in Basilicata, Calabria and Sicily).
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