Free Alternative
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Free Alternative
Alternativa Libera |
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| Spokesperson | Massimo Artini |
| President | Claudio Pizzuto |
| Founded | January 2015 |
| Split from | Five Star Movement |
| Headquarters | Via Della Missione 10, Rome |
| Ideology |
Direct democracy, Green politics, Democratic socialism. |
| Chamber of Deputies |
5 / 630
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| Senate |
0 / 315
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| Website | |
| www.alternativalibera.org | |
Free Alternative (Alternativa Libera, AL) is a political party in Italy, originally including left-wing, centrist, and right-wing elements. The party was formed in January 2015 by splinters of the Five Star Movement
The party was launched in January 2015 by ten deputies who had left (or had been expelled from) the Five Star Movement (M5S), a populist party which had come first in the 2013 general election, over disagreements with Beppe Grillo's and Gianroberto Casaleggio's leadership. According to AL's leader, Walter Rizzetto, at its foundation, the party counted also on seven senators (possibly including Italy Work in Progress and the X Movement), but the notion was never confirmed by the Senate's website and other news sources. Besides Rizzetto, the other main leader of the party was Massimo Artini.
In April 2015, Gessica Rostellato, one of the party's ten deputies, left in order to join the Democratic Party and, a few days later, was replaced by Toni Matarrelli, a splinter from Left Ecology Freedom, in the group.
As of mid-July 2015, the party looked divided between its left-wing, led by Artini, whose members had been crescently involved in a dialogue with Giuseppe Civati and were pondering over joining his Possible party, and its right-wing, led by Rizzetto, a conservative liberal, who had been building bridges with Lega Nord and the Brothers of Italy (FdI) instead.
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