Fortza Paris ("Forward Together") is a
regionalist political party in Sardinia.
The party was launched in 2004 at the merger of the
Sardinian People's Party
The Sardinian People's Party (''Partito del Popolo Sardo'', PPS) was a political party in Sardinia.
The PPS was founded in 2000 by a split of Italian People's Party. In the Regional Council of Sardinia three councilors joined the party: ''Pietri ...
(PPS), Sardistas and Unity of Sardinian People. Its self-proclaimed ideology comprises "all what the 20th Century had it good", including
Christian democracy
Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism.
It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ...
,
liberalism
Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality and equality before the law."political rationalism, hostility to autocracy, cultural distaste for c ...
,
social democracy
Social democracy is a Political philosophy, political, Social philosophy, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports Democracy, political and economic democracy. As a policy regime, it is described by academics as advocati ...
and
federalism
Federalism is a combined or compound mode of government that combines a general government (the central or "federal" government) with regional governments (Province, provincial, State (sub-national), state, Canton (administrative division), can ...
, but it is basically a Christian-democratic party. In fact, its main component, the PPS, had emerged from the regional section of the
United Christian Democrats
The United Christian Democrats ( it, Cristiani Democratici Uniti, CDU) was a minor Christian democratic political party in Italy. The CDU was a member of the European People's Party from 1995 until 2002.
History
The party was started in 1995 by ...
.
History
In the
2004 regional election FP won 4.6% of the vote and three regional councillors. In the
2005 provincial elections a member of FP,
Pasquale Onida, was elected President of the
province of Oristano
The province of Oristano ( it, provincia di Oristano, sc, provìntzia de Aristanis) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Oristano. It has an area of , a total population of 160,746 (2016), ...
, where the party's share reached 11.4%.
In the
2008 general election party leader
Silvestro Ladu was an unsuccessful candidate for
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 a ...
(PdL) for the
Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
. Later that year, several FP members, including Onida, Ladu and other two regional councillors (one coming from the
Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
The Union of the Centre ( it, Unione di Centro, UdC), whose complete name is "Union of Christian and Centre Democrats" (''Unione dei Democratici Cristiani e Democratici di Centro'', UDC), is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy. Lore ...
) joined the PdL, while a minority, led by
Gianfranco Scalas, did not.
In the
2009 Sardinian regional election
The Sardinian regional election of 2009 took place on 15–16 February 2009.
The election was called few months before the natural end of the legislature because of the resignation of the incumbent President Renato Soru. Ugo Cappellacci, the cent ...
FP won 2.2% in a joint list with the regional section of the
Movement for Autonomies (a Sicilian-based party), but neither Scalas nor any other party members were elected to the Regional Council. However, two FP dissidents,
Domenico Gallus and
Renato Lai, who stood for the PdL, did get in. Later that year a former leader of FP,
Adriano Aversano, launched
Lega Sarda, that aimed at becoming the Sardinian "national section" of
Lega Nord
Lega Nord (; acronym: LN), whose complete name is (), is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy. In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the party was rebranded as (), without changing its official n ...
. In fact, in that very year the federal leadership of Lega Nord supported the creation of
Lega Nord Sardinia
Lega Sardegna ( en, Sardinia League; abbr. LS), whose complete name is ( en, Sardinia League for Salvini Premier), is a regionalist and Sardinian nationalist political party active in Sardinia, Italy.
The party was established as ( en, Northe ...
.
In the
2010 provincial elections the party was able to field candidates in only half of Sardinian provinces and suffered a general decline in term of votes, except in its stronghold province of Oristano, where it won 9.9% of the vote. In the
2014 regional election the party won a mere 0.7% of the vote and was evicted from the Regional Council.
Sardegna - Elezioni Regionali del 16 febbraio 2014 - la Repubblica.it
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In the 2019 regional election the party won 1.6% within the centre-right coalition and obtained one seat in the Regional Council.
References
External links
Official website
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Christian democratic parties in Italy
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