Cuoritaliani ("Italian Hearts") was a

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based in

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, led by

Andrea Augello Andrea Augello (born 24 February 1961) is an Italian politician. Political career In 1995 he was elected Regional Councilor of Lazio with about 7,000 votes, within the list of National Alliance; in 2000 he was re-elected with 15,000 votes, and ...

History

The party was launched by Senator

and MP Vincenzo Piso in December 2015. In February 2016, the party was joined in the

Regional Council of Lazio The Regional Council of Lazio (''Consiglio Regionale del Lazio'') is the legislative assembly of Lazio. It was first elected in 1970, when the ordinary regions were instituted, on the basis of the Constitution of Italy of 1948. Composition Th ...

, with all the four regional councillors from the

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and one regional councillor from the mixed group. In June 2016, the party supported the candidacy of mayor of Nicola Calandrini in the municipal election of

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(who lost in the ballot), getting 6.6% of the vote and one seat. In the 2017 local elections the party scored good results in

Frosinone Frosinone (, local dialect: ) is a town and ''comune'' in Lazio, central Italy, the administrative seat of the province of Frosinone. It is located about south-east of Rome close to the Rome-Naples A1 Motorway. The city is the main city of the Va ...

(4.3% of the vote),

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(5.4%), where it get the election for mayor of its member Daniele Natalia, and

Ladispoli Ladispoli is a town and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Rome, Lazio, central Italy. It lies about west of Rome, on the Mediterranean Sea. History Modern Ladispoli includes the site of the ancient ''Alsium'' at nearby Palo Laziale, the po ...

(10.7%), where its member Alessandro Grando was elected mayor too. On the occasion of the 2018 Lazio regional election, following a series of negotiations, Cuoritaliani announced the candidacy of one of its members from the ranks of

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. In the 2018 local elections, the results in cities like

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and

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were really disappointing, causing the anger of Augello who relieved local leaders of their positions. In December 2018, Augello finally announced the merger of Cuoritaliani into

Brothers of Italy Brothers of Italy ( it, Fratelli d'Italia, FdI) is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Italy. It is led by Giorgia Meloni, the incumbent Prime Minister of Italy and the first woman to serve in the position. Accor ...

References

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