The Friuli Movement ( fur, Moviment Friûl; it, Movimento Friuli; MF) is a regionalist

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Friuli Friuli ( fur, Friûl, sl, Furlanija, german: Friaul) is an area of Northeast Italy with its own particular cultural and historical identity containing 1,000,000 Friulians. It comprises the major part of the autonomous region Friuli Venezia Giulia ...

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. The party, founded in 1966, is still active, but has lost importance. Most of its former members, notably including Roberto Visentin, Pietro Fontanini, Sergio Cecotti, Rinaldo Bosco and Alessandra Guerra, left to join Lega Nord Friuli, which was formed in 1990–1991. As of today, the party has little organisation and usually does not participate in elections.

History

In 1966 a group of Friulian nationalists led by Gino di Caporiacco, Fausto Schiavi and Corrado Cecotto, who benefited from the convinced support of part of the Catholic clergy, launched the Friuli Movement, in order to represent Friulian autonomism in the newly-formed autonomous region of

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, composed of Friuli and

Venezia Giulia Venezia Giulia, traditionally called Julian March ( Serbo-Croatian, Slovene: ''Julijska krajina'') or Julian Venetia ( it, Venezia Giulia; vec, Venesia Julia; fur, Vignesie Julie; german: Julisch Venetien) is an area of southeastern Europe w ...

. The party was represented in the Regional Council of Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 1968 to 1993 and, again, from 1998 to 2003. Its best electoral result was in the 1968 regional election (the first after its foundation), when the MF won 5.1% of the vote (more than 10% in the

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, especially in

Carnia Carnia ( fur, Cjargne or ''Cjargna''/''Cjargno'' in local variants, vec, Ciargna, german: Karnien, sl, Karnija) is a historical-geographic region in the northeastern Italian area of Friuli. Its 27 municipalities all belong to the Province of Ud ...

) and three regional councillors. In the 1980s the party suffered a decline in term of votes and it was later replaced by Lega Nord Friuli, which was much more successful. In the 2003 regional election the MF externally supported the candidacy of Alessandra Guerra for President, while five years later it gave its support to the centre-left incumbent President

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. In both cases, the candidate supported by the MF was defeated. In

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the party, under the "Friuli Union" banner, obtained 3.6% and one seat. Since 1992 the party has been conducted by

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(secretary) and

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(president). Roberto Visentin, who left in 1990 to form Lega Nord Friuli, returned to the party in 2012 and was supposed to lead it in the 2013 regional election, to which the party finally did not take part. During the election, the alternative

Friulian Autonomist Movement The Friulian Autonomist Movement (''Movimento Autonomista Friulano'', MAF) was a regionalist political party active in Friuli, Italy. History The party was founded in 2008 by a promoting committee made up of 9 people, including engineer Valeria Gr ...

ran within the

Responsible Autonomy Responsible Autonomy ( it, Autonomia Responsabile, AR) is a centrist to centre-right political party active in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. The party was launched as a "civic list" in support of Renzo Tondo, incumbent President of The People of ...

list. In 2016 the MF celebrated its 50th anniversary, during which its leaders hinted an electoral comeback under the leadership of Sergio Cecotti.

References

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External links

Official website
Political parties in Friuli-Venezia Giulia Political parties established in 1966 1966 establishments in Italy Regionalist parties in Italy