Open Space (''Spazio Aperto'') was an association connected to
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), a
political party in Italy
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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 ...
and
Silvano Moffa, it was one of the factions of the so-called ''arcipelago finiano'', that is to say the area around
Gianfranco Fini. Open Space represented the more conciliatory wing of ''Finiani'', especially if compared to
Generation Italy Generation Italy (''Generazione Italia'', GI) or ''Finiani'' was an association connected to Future and Freedom (FLI), a political party in Italy, and earlier to The People of Freedom (PdL).
Although most of its members came from the conservative ...
(GI). Its members included mainly former members of
National Alliance close to Fini (Augello, Moffa,
Pasquale Viespoli,
Cesare Cursi,
Oreste Tofani,
Marcello De Angelis,
Giuseppe Valditara
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Biography
Valditara was full professor of private and public Roman law at the Department of Law of ...
,
Maurizio Saia,
Luca Bellotti
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,
Tommaso Foti Tommaso is an Italian given name. It has also been used as a surname. Notable people with the name include:
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) and few ''Berlusconiani'' coming from
Forza Italia (
Debora Bergamini,
Romano Comincioli,
Ferruccio Saro,
Enrico Musso
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).
Moffa was also a founding member of
National Area and joined GI too, while the former refused to do so because of his disagreement with
Italo Bocchino
Italo Bocchino (born 6 July 1967) is an Italian politician and journalist.
Biography
Bocchino was born in Naples, and in his youth, he was a member of the Italian Social Movement (a post-fascist formation) and worked as a spokesman for the mem ...
. In fact most members of Open Space (Augello, Viespoli, Cursi, Tofani, De Angelis, Foti and, of course, the four ''Berlusconiani'') did not join GI.
In July 2010 only a third of Open Space members left the PdL groups in the Chamber and the Senate in order to join
Future and Freedom
Future and Freedom ( it, Futuro e Libertà), whose full name was Future and Freedom for Italy (''Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia'', abbreviated to FLI), was a political party in Italy, comprising both liberal and national conservative elements.
F ...
(FLI), the new parliamentary party animated by GI. Moffa, Viespoli, Valditara, Saia and Bellotti joined FLI, while Augello, Cursi, Tofani, De Angelis, Foti, Bergamini, Comincioli, Saro and Musso remained in the PdL. Musso, a committed liberal, left the PdL in November, while Moffa left FLI to return into the PdL's orbit in December. In that occasion he was followed also by
Giampiero Catone
Giampiero Catone (born 1 June 1956 in Naples, Campania) is an Italian politician and journalist.
Biography
Giampiero Catone was born on 1 June 1956 in Naples. He graduated in Political Sciences at the D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara. ...
,
Catia Polidori
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and
Maria Grazia Siliquini
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.
References
External links
Andrea Augello's official websiteSilvano Moffa's official website
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Organisations associated with The People of Freedom