We the South

We the South Noi Sud
Secretary	Antonio Milo
President	Vincenzo Scotti
Founded	21 January 2010
Split from	Movement for the Autonomies
Headquarters	Via Cervantes, 55 Naples
Newspaper	none
Membership	unknown
Ideology	Autonomism, Regionalism, Conservatism.
European affiliation	none
International affiliation	none
European Parliament group	no MEPs
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 630
Senate	1 / 315 (in ALA)
European Parliament	0 / 73
Website
http://www.noisud.it/
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We the South (Italian: Noi Sud, NS), whose complete name is Freedom and Autonomy - We the South (Italian: Libertà e Autonomia - Noi Sud), is a regionalist political party in Italy based in the Campania but seeking to represent the whole South.

The party emerged in January 2010 as a split from the Movement for the Autonomies (MpA). MpA, a Sicilian-based regionalist party active all around Southern Italy, had been in coalition, both at national and regional level, with The People of Freedom (PdL), the centre-right party led by Silvio Berlusconi since 2006, but had become critical of him. In December 2009 Raffaele Lombardo, leader of MpA and President of Sicily, had formed his third cabinet including ministers from his MpA party, the PdL–Sicily and the newly formed regional section of Alliance for Italy, plus some independents, including one who was close to the opposition Democratic Party (PD). No members of the "official" PdL were included.

The break-up of the alliance with the official PdL in Sicily and all around the South led to a painful split within the MpA. In January 2010 Vincenzo Scotti and four deputies out of eight (Arturo Iannaccone, Elio Belcastro, Antonio Milo and Luciano Sardelli), who wanted to continue the alliance with the PdL, were expelled from the party and formed their own movement.

In the 2010 regional elections the party gained 3.6% of the vote in Campania (electing two regional councilors) and 3.1% in Calabria.

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