''Diventerà Bellissima'' (lit. " icilyWill Become Very Beautiful") is a regionalist and

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active in

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. The party is led by Nello Musumeci, the

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, who is also affiliated to

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. Acco ...

. The party's name was inspired by a statement about

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Paolo Borsellino Paolo Emanuele Borsellino (; scn, Pàulu Borsellino; 19 January 1940 – 19 July 1992) was an Italian judge and prosecuting magistrate. From his office in the Palace of Justice in Palermo, Sicily, he spent most of his professional life trying t ...

, an Italian judge and prosecuting

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killed by

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in 1992.

History

Diventerà Bellissima was founded in November 2014 by Nello Musumeci, former MEP and President of Catania Province and Fabio Granata, former Vice President of

Sicily (man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = Ethnicity , demographics1_footnotes = , demographi ...

. In the

2017 Sicilian regional election The 2017 Sicilian regional election for the renewal of the Sicilian Regional Assembly and the election of the President of Sicily was held on 5 November 2017. Incumbent President Rosario Crocetta was not his party's candidate due to his low popu ...

, the party won 6.0% of the vote and 6 seats in the Regional Assembly, contributing to elect Musumeci at the head of the regional government. Few months later, on 18 December, DB had its constituent congress in Palermo, in which Nello Musumeci was elected president and Raffaele Stancanelli, coordinator. The party run in the 2018 general election within

(FdI), a

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party led by

Giorgia Meloni Giorgia Meloni (; born 15 January 1977) is an Italian politician who has been serving as the Prime Minister of Italy since 22 October 2022, the first woman to hold this position. A member of the Chamber of Deputies since 2006, she has led the ...

. In the election, Stancanelli succeeded in being elected in the Senate, thus he left his role as coordinator. On 24 February 2019, he was replaced by Gino Ioppolo during the second party's congress.Diventerà Bellissima: eletti i vertici regionali. Musumeci presidente, Ioppolo coordinatore
/ref> In 2022 joined the

party and Musumeci became minister of the

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Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Sicilian Regional Assembly

References

Notes

{{notelist Political parties in Sicily Regionalist parties in Italy Political parties established in 2017