National Alliance (Italy)
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National Alliance
Alleanza Nazionale |
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| President |
Gianfranco Fini (1995–2008) |
| Regent |
Ignazio La Russa (2008–2009) |
| Founded | 27 January 1995 |
| Dissolved | 22 March 2009 |
| Preceded by | Italian Social Movement |
| Merged into | The People of Freedom |
| Newspaper | Secolo d'Italia |
| Membership (2004) | 250,000 |
| Ideology | Conservatism National conservatism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| National affiliation |
Pole of Good Government (1994) Pole for Freedoms (1996–2001) House of Freedoms (2001–2008) |
| European affiliation | Alliance for Europe of the Nations |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | Union for Europe of the Nations |
National Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Nazionale, AN) was a conservativepolitical party in Italy. It was the successor of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement that distanced itself from its former ideology on its convention in Fiuggi ("Fiuggi turning point") and dissolved in favour of the new National Alliance.
Gianfranco Fini was the leader of the party following its foundation in 1995, however he stepped down in 2008 after being elected to the nominally non-partisan post of President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed the merger of the party into The People of Freedom (PdL), which happened in 2009.
The AN's official newspaper was Secolo d'Italia.
National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement (MSI), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year. Former MSI members were however still the bulk of the new party and former MSI leader Gianfranco Fini was elected leader of the new party.
The AN logo followed a template very similar to that of the Democratic Party of the Left, with the logo of the direct predecessor party in a small circle, as a means of legally preventing others from using it. The name was suggested by an article on the Italian newspaper Il Tempo written in 1992 by Domenico Fisichella, a prominent conservative academic. Starting in the 1990s, the MSI gradually transformed into a mainstream right-wing party, culminating in its 1995 dissolution into AN.
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