Valdostan Union
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Valdostan Union
Union Valdôtaine |
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| President | Ennio Pastoret |
| Founded | 13 September 1945 |
| Headquarters | 29, avenue des maquisards 11100 Aosta |
| Newspaper | Le Peuple Valdôtain |
| Youth wing | Jeunesse Valdôtaine |
| Ideology | Regionalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| National affiliation | Aosta Valley coalition |
| European affiliation | none |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | no MEPs |
| Chamber of Deputies |
0 / 630
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| Senate |
1 / 315
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| European Parliament |
0 / 73
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| Council of the Valley |
11 / 35
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| Regional Government |
1 / 20
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Valdostan Union, also Valdostian Union or Valdotanian Union, (French: Union Valdôtaine, UV) is a regionalist and centristpolitical party in Aosta Valley, Italy. It respresents mainly the French-speaking minority in the Region and its leaders are Ennio Pastoret, party president, and Augusto Rollandin, President of Aosta Valley.
UV has been steadily represented in the Italian Parliament since 1976 and, due to the disappearance of Christian Democracy in the early 1990s, it has become the catch-all party of the Region, similarly to the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) in South Tyrol. Indeed, the party steadily increased its share of vote from the 11.5% of 1973 to the 47.2% of 2003, but has since decreased its share of vote. UV has led the regional government since 1974 (with the exception of only three years).
The party was founded on 3 September 1945. Originally a close ally of Christian Democracy (DC), with which it shared government between 1946 and 1954, it soon distanced itself from that party, while approaching the left-wing.
After five years of opposition, in 1959 UV won the regional election in coalition with the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) with 51.6% against the 48.6% of a coalition composed of DC, the Italian Liberal Party (PLI), the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PSDI) and the Italian Republican Party (PRI).
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