Sovereign and Popular Italy ( it, Italia Sovrana e Popolare, ISP) was a

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, sovereignist and

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political alliance in Italy, formed in July 2022 in order to participate in the

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. After the election, ISP was disbanded and some of its components gave birth to "Sovereign and Popular Democracy". Its leaders were Francesco Toscano and

Marco Rizzo Marco Rizzo (born 12 October 1959 in Turin) is an Italian politician, leader of the Communist Party (PC) and in 2022 with Sovereign and Popular Italy. Biography A graduate in political science in 1985, he was a lecturer in vocational guidance ( ...

History

In early 2022, several minor parties and groups including

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(PC),

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(AC), Stefano D'Andrea's Reconquer Italy (RI), Francesco Toscano's Italy Again (AI) and Adriano Duina's United Italy (IU) agreed on joining their forces in opposition to the policies of

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. ISP founding members especially contested Draghi's policies on mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in Italy. Moreover, they harshly condemned the government's response to the

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. The coalition was also supportive of Italy's exit from

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and the

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. On 5 July 2022, the parties announced a cooperation for the next general election; on 25 July, following Draghi's resignation as prime minister following the

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, the parties launched on

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their joint list for the upcoming

in September, named Sovereign and Popular Italy (ISP). On 1 August, the member parties officially launched ISP during a press conference in the Italian Senate; Rizzo described the alliance as "the only alternative against the liberist, warmonger and sanitary

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". On the following day, MEP Francesca Donato (leader of Republican Rebirth) announced that she will not run for the next elections, stating that the

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front was "fragmented and disorganized". The list was later joined by Socialist Homeland (PS), a

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movement. In November 2022 Toscano left AI and launched "Sovereign and Popular Italy Again" (AISP). In December D'Andrea announced that ISP was dissolved, by mutual agreement of the other two leading members, Rizzo and Toscano. In January 2023 the PC (whose leader Rizzo had stepped down from secretary and had become the party's honorary president), AC, AISP and the Front for Popular Sovereignty (a breakway group of RI) launched "Sovereign and Popular Democracy".

Composition

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

References

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