Movement for the Autonomies
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Movement for the Autonomies
Movimento per le Autonomie |
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| Leader | Raffaele Lombardo |
| Founded | 30 April 2005 |
| Split from | Union of Christian and Centre Democrats |
| Headquarters | via dell'Oca, 27 00186 Rome |
| Newspaper | none |
| Membership | unknown |
| Ideology |
Regionalism Autonomism Christian democracy |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation |
PdL–LN–MpA (2008–10) New Pole for Italy (2010–12) Centre-right coalition (2013) |
| European affiliation | none |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | EPP–ED (2005–09) |
| Chamber of Deputies |
0 / 630
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| Senate |
2 / 315
(in ALA) |
| Sicilian Regional Assembly |
4 / 90
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| Website | |
| http://www.mpa-italia.it/ | |
The Movement for the Autonomies (Italian: Movimento per le Autonomie, MpA) is a regionalist and Christian democraticpolitical party in Italy. The party demands economic development, greater autonomy and legislative powers for Sicily and the other regions of Southern Italy. Its Sicilian section is named Party of Sicilians.
The party was founded on 30 April 2005 as the Movement for Autonomy (Movimento per l'Autonomia) by Sicilian splinters from the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) led by Raffaele Lombardo, as well as people from other centre-right parties, notably including Forza Italia (FI), the Italian Republican Party (PRI) and New Italian Socialist Party (NPSI).
At the 2006 general election the party joined the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition and formed a joint-list, the Pact for Autonomies, with Lega Nord, a regionalist movement based in Northern Italy, and the Sardinian Action Party. The MpA elected five deputies (two in the lists of FI) and two senators (one in the lists of FI). Lombardo claimed to have discarded the possibility of an alliance with the centre-left coalition The Union mainly because of the latter's opposition to the building of the Strait of Messina Bridge and their support for civil unions. In January 2008 the MpA formed a political pact with Italy of the Centre (IdC), under which Vincenzo Scotti, leader of IdC, became president of the party.
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