Alfredo Covelli (22 February 1914 – 25 December 1998) was an

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. He was the leader of the

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. Covelli was born in Bonito, Campania. He graduated in

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, in

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and

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in the second half of the 1930s, and in 1940 he was a teacher of

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. He took part in the

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as official in the

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, and after a series of operations in

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and

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, he received a decoration for military valor. In 1946 he was elected a

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as a candidate for the

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and in the

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of 2 June he voted to keep the

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as the royal house of Italy. In July of the same year he founded the

, of which he was elected to the

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in 1948, and so would be until 1976. In the meantime he also devoted himself to journalism, becoming director of the Nation Courier. In 1964 Covelli also held a management role in football, becoming advisor of the SS Lazio. In the 1970s he merged his party into the

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, which then became the MSI-DN (the DN standing for ''destra nazionale'' or national right). After the merger he duly became chairman of the MSI. In 1977 Covelli split from the MSI and founded

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political party. After receiving a meager result of 0.6% of the vote in the election of 1979 Covelli retired from the political scene. On 15 January 1998 he was appointed by Victor Emmanuel of Savoy honorary president of the honorific Council of the Senators of the Kingdom. At his request, he was buried in Bonito, his birthplace.

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