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Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party

Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party
Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese
Secretary Franco Panizza
President Linda Tamanini
Founded 17 January 1988
Merger of Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Union
Integral Autonomy
Preceded by Trentino Tyrolean People's Party
Headquarters corso 3 Novembre, 72
38122 Trento
Ideology Regionalism
Autonomism
Christian democracy
National affiliation SVP–PATT
European affiliation European People's Party
International affiliation none
European Parliament group no MEPs
Colors      Black
Chamber of Deputies
0 / 630
Senate
1 / 315
European Parliament
0 / 73
Regional Government
1 / 20
Provincial Council
7 / 35
Website
www.patt.tn.it

The Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (Italian: Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese, PATT) is a regionalist,autonomist, and Christian-democraticpolitical party in Trentino, Italy.

The PATT is the unofficial counterpart of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) in Trentino and the two parties contested together several general and European elections. Through its alliance with the SVP, the PATT applied to be admitted in the European People's Party (EPP), becoming an observer member in 2016 and later an ordinary one.

Franco Panizza is the party's current secretary, Linda Tamanini president. Ugo Rossi, a former leader, has served as President of Trentino since 2013. Panizza and Rossi are centrists and strongly support the alliance with the Democratic Party and the Union for Trentino (PATT's coalition partners since 2002), while former president Walter Kaswalder held a more conservative (and traditional) position, that resonated well with the party's grassroots, until his eviction in January 2017. Another minority faction is led by Giuseppe Corona, standard-bearer of the "Tyrolean" nationalist and separatist wing.

The party was founded on 25 July 1948 as the Trentino Tyrolean People's Party (PPTT).

Between 1972 and 1976, the PPTT was represented in the Italian Senate by Sergio Fontanari.

In 1982 a split between the conservative wing, led by Franco Tretter, and the centrist wing of the party, led by longstanding leader Enrico Pruner, occurred. The first group retained the name of the party, but then changed it to Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Union (UATT), while the latter took the name of Integral Autonomy (AI).


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