Power to the People! ( it, Potere al Popolo!, PaP) is a

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. It was launched in December 2017 as a

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joint electoral list of anti-capitalist parties and movements which ran in the 2018 general election. In its manifesto, PaP's membership is described as "

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and

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, anti-

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and

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and southernist

", whose goal as a coalition is "to create real democracy, through daily practices,

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experiments,

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of knowing and popular

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History

The coalition was initially proposed by Ex OPG Je so' pazzo, a

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. The proposal was endorsed by other social centers in the country, local committees and associations and finally some established parties whereas the idea of building a party and/or list was born during the Je so' pazzo Festival – 2016, which had as its name "Let's Build the Popular Power", held in Naples from 9 to 11 September 2016. The following year from 7 to 10 September 2017, there was in Naples the Je so' pazzo Festival – 2017, which had as its name "Power to the People!". On 18 November 2017, Je so' pazzo's activists held a national assembly for the construction of a truly democratic movement that would give representation to social battles and to the ideas of individuals, social centers, associations and parties that felt themselves to be without representation. On 17 December, the coalition was officially launched with the support of the two main Italian communist parties, the Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) and the

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(PCI). Contextually, that same day Viola Carofalo, a Naples-based university researcher in philosophy who had been a long-time activist of Ex OPG Je so' pazzo, was chosen as national spokesperson and as political leader on 6 January 2018. In the 2018 general election on 4 March, PaP obtained 1.1% of the vote and no seats. On 18 March, PaP held a national assembly in which it was decided to continue its program. In January 2019, PaP considered running either independently or in a wider coalition in the next European parliament election, but it ultimately decided not to run. In July 2021 senator

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, elected with the

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, joined the party, giving it representation in the

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Composition

While it currently contains three main parties, PaP was originally composed of eight main parties other than Ex OPG Je so' pazzo.

Former members

Additionally, PaP includes a number of little parties, movements, social centers, local trade unions, associations and committees, notably including Clash City Workers, Popular Front, Revolutionary Pirate Movement, Eurostop, representatives of the No TAV movement, the No TAP movement, the No MUOS movement and the No TRIV movement. PaP is also connected with

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(AET), an electoral list organised by intellectuals,

Left Ecology Freedom Left Ecology Freedom ( it, Sinistra Ecologia Libertà, SEL) was a democratic socialist political party in Italy whose bulk was formed by former members of the Communist Refoundation Party. The party's leader was Nichi Vendola, a former President ...

(SEL) and the PRC for the

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, which elected three

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(MEPs), including PRC's

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, who along with SEL's Curzio Maltese is still affiliated with AET. SEL was later incorporated in the

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(SI) and ran within the Free and Equal (LeU) list in the 2018 election.

International relations

After its founding in December 2017, PaP took inspiration from

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, the organisation supporting

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's leadership of the Labour Party in the

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and

La France Insoumise La France Insoumise (FI or LFI; ; "France Unbowed") is a left-wing populist political party in France, launched in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, then a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) and former co-president of the Left Party (PG). It aim ...

, whose leader

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spoke of a "common adventure for the construction of a people's alternative for Europe". In April 2018, PaP "lent its support" to Maintenant le Peuple, an alternative Europarty started by Mélenchon,

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and

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of the French La France Insoumise, Portuguese Left Bloc and Spanish Podemos respectively which was later joined by the Danish Red-Green Alliance, Finnish Left Alliance and Swedish Left Party. PaP called Maintenant le Peuple "a very important call proposed by three of the most popular alternatives from Europe eft Bloc, Podemos and La France Insoumise which we can not ignore".

Endorsements

PaP has been endorsed by the following public figures: *

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* Citto Maselli * Vauro Senesi *

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Election results

Italian Parliament

Regional Councils

Leadership

* National spokesperson: Viola Carofalo (17 December 2017 – 12 May 2021); Giorgio Cremaschi (12 January 2019 – 12 May 2021); Giuliano Granato (12 May 2021 – present); Marta Collot (12 May 2021 – present)

Logos

PaP used different logos: File:Potere al Popolo logo.png, Preliminary logo File:Potere al Popolo.png, Electoral logo

References

External links

Potere al Popolo! – Noi ci stiamo, chi accetta la sfida?
– official website
Potere al Popolo
– official Facebook page {{DEFAULTSORT:Power to the People (Italy) 2017 establishments in Italy Communist parties in Italy Eurosceptic parties in Italy Far-left politics in Italy Left-wing politics in Italy Political parties established in 2017