The Autonomy ( it, L'Autonomia) was a heterogeneous

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, formed in the run-up to the

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in order to overcome the 4% threshold introduced in the electoral law in February 2009. The list was affiliated to

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and disbanded after the European election. The list included: * The Right (LD,

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, leader:

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), including

Sicilian Alliance The Sicilian Alliance ( it.: ''Alleanza Siciliana''; sic.: ''Allianza Siciliana'') was a minor autonomist and national-conservative political party in Sicily, Italy. It was founded in 2005 and was led by Nello Musumeci, an MEP who was elected ...

Movement for the Autonomies The Movement for Autonomy ( it, Movimento per l'Autonomia, MpA) is a regionalism (politics), regionalist, Christian democracy, Christian-democratic list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy, based in Sicily. The MpA, whose found ...

(MpA, regionalist/

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, leader:

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) *

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(PP,

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/ pensioners' interests, leader:

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) * Alliance of the Centre (AdC,

, leader:

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) *candidates of minor regionalist parties: Max Ferrari ( Lombardia Autonoma),

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( Autonomist Trentino),

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(

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). *disgruntled former members of

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, Francesco Musotto, Eleonora Lo Curto, Monica Stefania Baldi, Paolo Ricciotti, etc. The alliance between The Right and the MpA was made possible also by the common views on Sicilian autonomy of Raffaele Lombardo, leader of the MpA and

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, and

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, MEP for The Right and formerly leader of

, an autonomist party. Nello Musumeci and Carlo Fatuzzo, leader of the PP, were the only two outgoing MEPs of the coalition.

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was also to have been part of the coalition, but declined.

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