Rhaetian Populars ( it, Popolari Retici) was a

political party in Italy This article contains a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861. Throughout history, numerous political parties have been operating in Italy, and since World War II no party has ever gained enough support to govern ...

based in

Sondrio Sondrio (; lmo, Sùndri; rm, Sunder; archaic german: Sünders or ; la, Sundrium) is an Italian city and ''comune'' and Provincial Capital located in the heart of the Valtellina. , Sondrio counts approximately 21,876 inhabitants (2015) and it is ...

Eugenio Tarabini Eugenio Tarabini (2 May 1930 – 25 August 2018) was an Italian politician. Tarabini was born in Morbegno on 2 May 1930. He married Lucia, with whom he had three children, and was a lawyer. A member of Christian Democracy, he sat on the Italia ...

has been the leader of the party until his death (in 2018).

History

The party was founded around in 1997 by Eugenio Tarabini (former Undersecretary and MP) and

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(former president of the

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Region). The party was founded with the aim of obtaining the Valtellina autonomy and regularly appears in the

administrative elections. In 1999 the leader and founder of the party, Eugenio Tarabini, was elected President of the

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with the support of the Pole of Freedoms. In 2004 Tarabini lost re-election against

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, candidate of the

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. In 2003 Bianca Bianchini, member of the Rhaetian Populars, was elected Mayor of Sondrio. After the death of Eugenio Tarabini in 2018, Mauro Bianchini took over the leadership of the party.Consiglio provinciale, giuramento tra le assenze
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References

{{Reflist Political parties in Lombardy Christian democratic parties in Italy Catholic political parties 1997 establishments in Italy Political parties established in 1997