Trentino Project ( it, Progetto Trentino, PT) is a regionalist and

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Trentino Trentino ( lld, Trentin), officially the Autonomous Province of Trento, is an autonomous province of Italy, in the country's far north. The Trentino and South Tyrol constitute the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, an autonomous region ...

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History

PT was formed in July 2012 as a split, led by former regional minister Silvano Grisenti, from the

Union for Trentino The Union for Trentino ( it, Unione per il Trentino, UpT) is a regionalist, centrist and Christian-democratic political party active in Trentino, Italy. The party has its roots in the experience of Daisy Civic List and was founded on 7 June 2008 ...

(UpT). In the 2013 provincial election the party supported Diego Mosna, entrepreneur and president of

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, for president of Trentino.Mosna sarà candidato di Progetto Trentino - Cronaca - Trentino Corriere Alpi
/ref> Mosna was endorsed also by the Trentino Civic List,

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, Administer Trentino, Together for Autonomy and Autonomy 2020. Mosna won a 19.3% of the vote, coming a very distant second from

Ugo Rossi Ugo Rossi (born May 29, 1963 in Milan) is an Italian politician, member of the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party. Overview He was born in Milan where his parents had moved in the 1950s from Ossana in the Val di Sole. Ugo Rossi moved back to ...

of the

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, who was supported by the autonomist/

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and garnered a landslide 58.1%. PT however emerged as the fourth largest political force of Trentino, by winning 9.0% of the vote (the UpT got 13.3%) and four provincial councillors plus Mosna, who was elected as best-placed defeated candidate. In December 2014, during the party's first congress, Marco Bettega was elected president to replace Mauro Dorigoni. In March 2015 Grisenti was convicted of corruption and, as a result, temporarily abandoned politics. The PT participated in the subsequent Trento municipal election in coalition with Lega Nord Trentino (LNT), Trentino Civic List (CT),

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and the

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: in the event, the party won 3.8% of the vote, less than most of its coalition parties. In January 2016, during the party's second congress, Marino Simoni was elected as new president. In April the PT signed a federative pact with the

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(PpI), a minor Christian-democratic party represented in

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. In the 2018 provincial election the PT was part of the autonomist/

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of the LNT was elected president of Trentino and PT, with its 3.2%, was the coalition's third largest party. PT's Mario Tonina was appointed acting vice president by Fugatti, after the death of CT's Rodolfo Borga (who was supposed to function as vice president, due to CT's 4.6% of the vote), Tonina's appointment became permanent. In March 2019, during the party's third congress, Grisenti was elected president. In the 2023 provincial election the party ran in a joint list with the

and

Popular Autonomists The Popular Autonomists ( it, Autonomisti Popolari, AP) are regionalist, autonomist and Christian-democratic political party in Trentino, Italy. The party was formed in 2017 by Walter Kaswalder, after his ejection from the Trentino Tyrolean Aut ...

, in support of Fugatti's re-election.https://www.rainews.it/tgr/trento/video/2023/07/il-patt-si-allarga-entrano-progetto-trentino-e-autonomisti-popolari-0f8e40ce-fa98-4b09-a79e-40a267bb0d0a.html In the election, Fugatti was re-elected and the autonomist joint list obtained 8.2% of the vote and three councillors, including Tonina.

Leadership

*President: Mauro Dorigoni (2012–2014), Marco Bettega (2014–2016), Marino Simoni (2016–2019), Silvano Grisenti (2019–present)

References

External links

Official website
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