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National Area
National Area (''Area Nazionale'', AN) was an association connected to Future and Freedom (FLI), a political party in Italy, and earlier to The People of Freedom. Founded by Roberto Menia and Silvano Moffa (who was also a leading member of Open Space), it represented the right-wing of the so-called ''arcipelago finiano'', that is to say the area around Gianfranco Fini. Most members of the group, whose acronym was identical to that of National Alliance (AN), the party Fini founded from the Italian Social Movement (MSI) in 1995 and finally led into the PdL in 2009, were members of Generation Italy too. In July 2010 virtually all National Area members left the PdL groups in the Chamber and the Senate in order to join FLI, the new parliamentary party animated by GI. Menia and Moffa became coordinators of the political platform and the parliamentary groups of FLI, respectively. In December 2010 Moffa left FLI, which had become a staunch opponent of Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Future And Freedom
Future and Freedom ( it, Futuro e Libertà), whose full name was Future and Freedom for Italy (''Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia'', abbreviated to FLI), was a political party in Italy, comprising both liberal and national conservative elements. FLI was formed by followers of Gianfranco Fini in July 2010 as a split from The People of Freedom (PdL), the major Italian centre-right party of the time, led by Silvio Berlusconi. Fini, former leader of the Italian Social Movement (MSI) and National Alliance (AN) and co-founder of the PdL in 2009, had taken a long journey from post-fascism to become a liberal conservative. Soon after the PdL's foundation, he started to become a critic of Berlusconi's government and leadership style. The core of FLI was constituted by Generation Italy (GI), led by Italo Bocchino, who was also appointed vice president of the party by Fini. FLI members were mostly former MSI/AN stalwarts, with some notable exceptions. History Background Somewhat surpris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Political Parties In Italy
This article contains a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861. Throughout history, numerous political parties have been operating in Italy, and since World War II no party has ever gained enough support to govern alone: parties thus form political alliances and coalition governments. In the 2022 general election four groupings obtained most of the votes and most of the seats in the two houses of the Italian Parliament: a centre-right coalition, composed of Brothers of Italy, Lega, Forza Italia, and minor allies; a centre-left coalition, composed of the Democratic Party and minor allies; the anti-establishment Five Star Movement; the liberal Action – Italia Viva. Coalitions of parties for regional elections can be slightly different from those for general elections, due to different regional conditions (for instance, in some regions the Five Star Movement and the Democratic Party are in coalition, but not in other ones) and the presence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The People Of Freedom
The People of Freedom ( it, Il Popolo della Libertà, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL, launched by Silvio Berlusconi on 18 November 2007, was initially a federation of political parties, notably including Forza Italia and National Alliance, which participated as a joint election list in the 2008 general election. The federation was later transformed into a party during a party congress on 27–29 March 2009. The party's leading members included Angelino Alfano (national secretary), Renato Schifani, Renato Brunetta, Roberto Formigoni, Maurizio Sacconi, Maurizio Gasparri, Mariastella Gelmini, Antonio Martino, Giancarlo Galan, Maurizio Lupi, Gaetano Quagliariello, Daniela Santanchè, Sandro Bondi, and Raffaele Fitto. The PdL formed Italy's government from 2008 to 2011 in coalition with Lega Nord. After having supported Mario Monti's technocratic government in 2011–2012, the party was part of Enrico Letta's government with the Democratic Party, Civic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Menia
Roberto Menia (born 3 December 1961 in Pieve di Cadore, Veneto) is an Italian politician. Biography Roberto Menia has a law degree and he is a publicist journalist. Son of an istrian exile of Buje, who moved to Trieste after the war, Menia began his political activity in the youth organization of the Italian Social Movement, under the leadership of Almerigo Grilz. In 1994 Menia was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies and he was re-confirmed as deputy until 2013. In 2004 Menia was the first promoter of the law which established 10 February as Day of Remembrance dedicated to the martyrs of Foibe. On 12 May 2008 he was appointed Undersecretary for the Environment in the Berlusconi IV Cabinet. On 21 March 2009, in the last Congress of National Alliance, Menia was the only one to vote against the dissolution of the party and its merge into The People of Freedom. In 2010, he left the PdL and he resigned as Undersecretary to follow Gianfranco Fini into his ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvano Moffa
Silvano Moffa (born 21 April 1951 in Rome, Lazio) is an Italian politician and journalist. Biography Moffa joined the Italian Social Movement in 1970 and in 1973 he was elected municipal councilor in Colleferro. In 1975 he became journalist of the newspaper Secolo d'Italia, of which he became editor-in-chief in 1977. He left the newspaper in 1989 to devote himself more to politics. In 1993 Moffa was elected Mayor of Colleferro with the 51.0% of the vote and he was reconfirmed in 1997, with the 66.5% of the vote. He remained Mayor of Colleferro until 2001. In 1998 he was also elected President of Province of Rome with the 51.1% of the vote, but he was defeated by Enrico Gasbarra. In 2004 he was elected for the third time Mayor of Colleferro, with the 50.6% of the vote. On 30 December 2004 he was appointed Undersecretary to the Ministry of Infrastructure in the Berlusconi II Cabinet. In 2006 Moffa was elected for the first time to the Chamber of Deputies with National Alliance, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Space (Italy)
Open Space (''Spazio Aperto'') was an association connected to The People of Freedom (PdL), a political party in Italy. Led by Andrea Augello and Silvano Moffa, it was one of the factions of the so-called ''arcipelago finiano'', that is to say the area around Gianfranco Fini. Open Space represented the more conciliatory wing of ''Finiani'', especially if compared to Generation Italy (GI). Its members included mainly former members of National Alliance close to Fini (Augello, Moffa, Pasquale Viespoli, Cesare Cursi, Oreste Tofani, Marcello De Angelis, Giuseppe Valditara, Maurizio Saia, Luca Bellotti, Tommaso Foti) and few ''Berlusconiani'' coming from Forza Italia ( Debora Bergamini, Romano Comincioli, Ferruccio Saro, Enrico Musso). Moffa was also a founding member of National Area and joined GI too, while the former refused to do so because of his disagreement with Italo Bocchino. In fact most members of Open Space (Augello, Viespoli, Cursi, Tofani, De Angelis, Foti and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianfranco Fini
Gianfranco Fini (born 3 January 1952) is an Italian politician who served as the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2013. He is the former leader of the far-right Italian Social Movement, the conservative National Alliance, and the center-right Future and Freedom party. He was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Silvio Berlusconi's government from 2001 to 2006. Biography Family origins Fini was born on 3 January 1952 in Bologna. His grandfather, a communist activist, died in 1970. His father, Argenio "Sergio" Fini (Bologna, 1923 – Rome, 1998), was a volunteer with the Italian Social Republic, a fascist state in Northern Italy allied with Germany during 1943–45; he later declared feeling close to the centre-left Italian Democratic Socialist Party (PDSI), but withdrew from political activity after his son became involved in the Italian Social Movement (MSI). His mother Erminia Marani (Ferrara, 1926 – Rome, 2008) was the daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Alliance (Italy)
National Alliance ( it, Alleanza Nazionale, AN) was a conservative political party in Italy.Luciano Bardi - Piero Ignazi - Oreste Massari, ''I partiti italiani'', Egea 2007, pp. 151, 173n. It was the successor of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by former followers of Benito Mussolini that had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideology, a move known as ', during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolving into the new party in 1995. Gianfranco Fini was the leader of AN from its foundation through 2008, after being elected President of the Chamber of Deputies. Fini was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed the merger of the party with Forza Italia (FI) into The People of Freedom (PdL) in 2009. A group of former AN members, led by La Russa, left PdL in 2012 in order to launch the Brothers of Italy (FdI), while others remained in the PdL and were among the founding members of the new Forza It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Social Movement
The Italian Social Movement ( it, Movimento Sociale Italiano, MSI) was a neo-fascist political party in Italy. A far-right party, it presented itself until the 1990s as the defender of Italian fascism's legacy, and later moved towards national conservatism. In 1972, the Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity was merged into the MSI and the party's official name was changed to Italian Social Movement – National Right ( it, Movimento Sociale Italiano – Destra Nazionale, italics=no, MSI–DN). Formed in 1946 by supporters of the former dictator Benito Mussolini, most of whom took part in the experience of the Italian Social Republic and the Republican Fascist Party, the MSI became the fourth largest party in Italy by the early 1960s. The party gave informal local and eventually national support to the Christian Democracy party from the late 1940s and through the 1950s, sharing anti-communism. In the early 1960s, the party was pushed to the sidelines of Italian politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Generation Italy
Generation Italy (''Generazione Italia'', GI) or ''Finiani'' was an association connected to Future and Freedom (FLI), a political party in Italy, and earlier to The People of Freedom (PdL). Although most of its members came from the conservative National Alliance (AN) and were earlier members of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), GI was a social liberal wing within the PdL. The faction's members identified themselves as close supporters of Gianfranco Fini, former leader of MSI/AN and frequent critic of Silvio Berlusconi from his post of President of the Chamber of Deputies. During the years, the former post-fascist leader had taken controversial stances on stem cell research, end of life issues, advance health care directive and immigration. Fini was also an outspoken supporter of the principle of separation of church and state and of a more structured party organisation. Although most ''Finiani'', such as Bocchino, Adolfo Urso, Fabio Granata, Carmelo Briguglio, Flavia Peri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Berlusconi
Silvio Berlusconi ( ; ; born 29 September 1936) is an Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006 and 2008 to 2011. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013, and has served as a member of the Senate of the Republic since 2022, and previously from March to November 2013, and as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since 2019, and previously from 1999 to 2001. Berlusconi is the controlling shareholder of Mediaset and owned the Italian football club A.C. Milan from 1986 to 2017. He is nicknamed ''Il Cavaliere'' (The Knight) for his Order of Merit for Labour; he voluntarily resigned from this order in March 2014. In 2018, ''Forbes'' ranked him as the 190th richest man in the world with a net worth of US$8 billion. In 2009, ''Forbes'' ranked him 12th in the list of the World's Most Powerful People due to his domination of Italian politics throughout more than twenty ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
