The Ladin Autonomist Union ( lld, Union Autonomista Ladina; it, Unione Autonomista Ladina; UAL) is a minor
progressive
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centrist
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political party
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in
Trentino
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,
Italy
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, that seeks to represent the
Ladin
Ladin may refer to:
* Ladin language, a language in northern Italy, often classified as a Rhaeto-Romance language
*Ladin people, the inhabitants of the Dolomite Alps region of northern Italy
See also
*Laden (disambiguation)
* Ladino (disambigua ...
minority in the Province and especially that living in
Fassa Valley
The Fassa Valley (Ladin: ''Fascia'', it, Val di Fassa, german: Fassatal) is a valley in the Dolomites in Trentino, northern Italy. As an administrative valley community (Italian: ''Comunità di valle'', German: ''Talgemeinschaft'') of Trentino, it ...
. Its main leader is
Giuseppe Detomas
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from Latin Josephus, Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף.
It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it.
The feminine form of the name ...
.
The party was formed in 1983 and its founder
Ezio Anesi was elected that year provincial deputy for the
Italian Republican Party
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. In the
1992
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Anesi was elected to the
Italian Senate
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for the
Italian Socialist Party
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.
After the disappearance of the so-called
First Republic parties, including the Socialists, the UAL formed an alliance with the
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party
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(PATT) at the provincial level and with
The Olive Tree (''l'Ulivo'') at the national level. Under these agreements, Anesi was elected to the Provincial Council in 1993 from the PATT slate, while Detomas represented UAL in the
Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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from 1996 to 2006. That was the highest point for the party.
Since the introduction in 2003 of a seat for the Ladin minority, the UAL has always prevailed. In the
2013 provincial election it won 1.1% of the vote (51.8% in Fassa Falley). However, in 2015, the party was defeated by the
Fassa Association
Fassa Association (''Associazione Fassa''), often referred simply as Fassa, is a minor Christian-democratic political party in Trentino, Italy. The party seeks to represent the Ladin minority in the Province and especially Ladins living in Fassa Va ...
in the Fassa community elections, the first after the introduction of valley communities in 2006.
In the
2016 Italian constitutional referendum
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won Fassa supported the No with 57.9% against the UAL supported Yes
in Fassa Valley.
Electoral results
Results are expressed in %. Before 2003, the UAL usually did not contest the elections as a stand-alone list.
References
External links
Official website
{{Trentino political parties
Political parties in Trentino
Ladinia
Political parties established in 1983
1983 establishments in Italy
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