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Christian Popular Union
The Christian Popular Union ( it, Unione Popolare Cristiana, UPC) is a Christian-democratic political party in Italy. The UPC was launched in August 2009 by Antonio Satta, a former Christian Democrat who had been the regional leader of UDEUR and, later, of the Sardinian Autonomist Populars. The party is based in Sardinia, but has a national structure, consisting primarily of former members of the UDEUR, notably including Gianfranco Saraca, Luca Bagliani, Danilo Bertoli, Sergio Deorsola, and Antonio Potenza (leader of Basilicata's United Populars). In the 2010 Sardinian provincial elections the party did especially well in northern Sardinia: 10.7% in Sassari and 6.2% in Olbia-Tempio. Massimo Mulas, a regional councillor elected with the Union of Sardinians in the 2009 regional election, joined the party during the legislature. In June 2012, through Mulas, the UPC joined the newly formed parliamentary group Sardinia Tomorrow, along with other centrist councillors. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Democracy
Christian democracy (sometimes named Centrist democracy) is a political ideology that emerged in 19th-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching and neo-Calvinism. It was conceived as a combination of modern democratic ideas and traditional Christian values, incorporating social justice and the social teachings espoused by the Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Pentecostal, and other denominational traditions of Christianity in various parts of the world. After World War II, Catholic and Protestant movements of neo-scholasticism and the Social Gospel shaped Christian democracy. On the traditional left-right political spectrum Christian Democracy has been difficult to pinpoint as Christian democrats rejected liberal economics and individualism and advocated state intervention, but simultaneously defended private property rights against excessive state intervention. This has meant that Christian Democracy has historically been considered centre left on eco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Deorsola
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Sergio may refer to: * Sergio (given name), for people with the given name Sergio * Sergio (carbonado), the largest rough diamond ever found * ''Sergio'' (album), a 1994 album by Sergio Blass * ''Sergio'' (2009 film), a documentary film * ''Sergio'' (2020 film), a biographical drama film * Sergio, the mascot for the Old Orchard Beach Surge baseball team See also *Hurricane Sergio (other) The name Sergio has been used for four tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. * Tropical Storm Sergio (1978) – threatened Baja California. * Hurricane Sergio (1982) – never threatened land. * Hurricane Sergio (2006) – never threate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Council Of State
The Consiglio di Stato ( en, Council of State) is a legal-administrative consultative body that ensures the legality of public administration in Italy. The council has jurisdiction on acts of all administrative authorities, except when these authorities lack discretionary power, in which case the dispute is considered to be one of civil law. Authority The council derives its authority and powers from several articles in the Constitution of Italy. Article 100: :: ''The Council of State is a legal-administrative consultative body and ensures the legality of public administration.'' Article 103: :: ''The Council of State and the other organs of judicial administration have jurisdiction for safeguarding before the public administration legitimate rights and, in particular matters laid out by law, also subjective rights.'' Article 111: :: ''Appeals to Cassation against decisions of the Council of State and the Court of Accounts are permitted only for motives arising from judicial fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaetano Ledda
Gaetano (anglicized ''Cajetan'') is an Italian masculine given name. It is also used as a surname. It is derived from the Latin ''Caietanus'', meaning "from ''Caieta''" (the modern Gaeta). The given name has been in use in Italy since medieval period, although it also remained in use as a byname indicating people from Gaeta, as in Thomas Cajetan or ''Gaetanus'' (1469–1534). The modern given name can be traced to Saint Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene (1480–1547) who was canonized in 1671. Other variants of the name exist in other Romance languages, the French form of the name is ''Gaëtan, Gaétan'', the Portuguese form is ''Caetano'', and the Spanish form is ''Cayetano''. The feminine form is ''Gaetana'' (also ''Caetana'' and ''Cayetana''). People with the given name ''Gaetano'' Clergy and religious figures * Pope Nicholas III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini), Pope from 1277–1280 * Thomas Cajetan (Tomasso de Vio Cardinal Cajetan), (1469 – 1534), Italian philosopher, theol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2014 Sardinian Regional Election
The Sardinian regional election of 2014 took place on 16 February 2014. Francesco Pigliaru of the Democratic Party defeated incumbent Ugo Cappellacci of Forza Italia. The combined score of the highly fragmented Sardist parties was 26%. The Five Star Movement did not take part to the election, after Beppe Grillo refused to concede the use of his party's symbol. The notorious novelist Michela Murgia, who received more than the 10% of votes, wasn't elected because of the new high electoral threshold. New electoral system In 2013 Sardinian electoral law was changed once again. While the President of Sardinia and the first leader of the opposition are still elected at-large, 58 councillors, instead of 64 as it was before, are elected by party lists under a form of semi-proportional representation. The winning coalition receives a jackpot of additional seats, which are divided between all majority parties using the D'Hondt method, as it happens between the losing lists. Each ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia Tomorrow
Nanni Campus (born Gianvittorio Campus, 3 September 1952) is an Italian academic and politician, Mayor of Sassari from 2000 to 2005 and again since 2019. Biography After graduating in Medicine at the University of Sassari, Campus began his career teaching in his own alma mater. Meanwhile, he joined the Italian Social Movement and he later took part in the foundation of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, with which he is elected to the Italian Senate in 1994 and in 1996. During 1996, he left Berlusconi's party to join Gianfranco Fini's National Alliance. He left his seat in the Senate in 2000, once he was elected Mayor of Sassari, supported by the whole Pole for Freedoms. In 2005, at the end of his term, Campus did not run again for mayor. In June 2009, Campus was elected regional councilor of Sardinia for The People of Freedom (PdL), being the most voted candidate in the city of Sassari. In June 2012, together with other four regional councillors, he joined a new group in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Sardinian Regional Election
The Sardinian regional election of 2009 took place on 15–16 February 2009. The election was called few months before the natural end of the legislature because of the resignation of the incumbent President Renato Soru. Ugo Cappellacci, the centre-right candidate, defeated Soru by a large margin. Electoral system The electoral system used for this election was the national ''Tatarella Law'' of 1995, used by most of Italian regions to elect their Council. Sixty-four councillors were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists; remained seats and votes were grouped at regional level where a Hare quota is used, and then distributed to provincial party lists. Ten councillors were elected at-large using a general ticket: parties were grouped in alliances, and the alliance which received a plurality of votes elected all its candidates, its leader becoming the President of Sardinia. Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Of Sardinians
The Union of Sardinians – Nationalist Project (''Unione dei Sardi – Progetto Nazionalitario'', UDS–PN) is a regionalist Christian-democratic political party in Sardinia. Its leader is Mario Floris, a former Christian Democrat who was President of the Region from 1999 to 2001. History The Sardinian Democratic Union was founded in 1998 as Sardinian section of Democratic Union for the Republic of Francesco Cossiga, a Sardinian who had been Prime Minister and President of Italy. In the 1999 regional election Floris won 6.2% as candidate for president, while the party won 4.1% and three regional councillors. In the 2004 regional election the UDS, which had been re-established taking the current name, won 3.9% of the vote and two regional councillors. After that, the party became a stable regional ally of The People of Freedom (PdL). In the 2009 regional election, in coalition with the centre-right, the UDS won 3.5% of the vote and got two regional councillors elected (Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Mulas
Massimo, also Massimino, and Massimine () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name: *Massimo Agostinelli (Max Agos) (born 1987), Swiss based Italian American artist, entrepreneur and activist *Massimo Agostini (born 1964), Italian football manager and former striker * Massimo Alioto (born 1972), associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National University of Singapore * Massimo Allevi (born 1969), former Italian pole vaulter * Massimo Ambrosini Cavaliere OMRI (born 1977), Italian former professional footballer * Massimo De Ambrosis (born 1964), Italian actor and voice actor *Massimo Amfiteatrof (1907–1990), Russian-born Italian cellist * Paolo Massimo Antici (1924–2003), Italian diplomat, founder of the Antici Group *Massimo Aparo (born 1953), Italian nuclear engineer * Massimo Apollonio (born 1970), former Italian racing cyclist *Massimo Ardinghi (born 1971), former professional tennis player from Italy * Massi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Olbia-Tempio
The province of Olbia-Tempio (, , ) was a province in the autonomous region of Sardinia, Italy. It had two provincial capitals, Olbia (58,723 inhabitants) and Tempio Pausania (14,342 inhabitants). As of 2015, the province had a total population of 159,950 inhabitants and covered an area of , so had a population density of 46.96 inhabitants per square kilometer. The province contained 26 ''comuni'' (plural; singular: ''comune''), see list of communes of the former Province of Olbia-Tempio. The largest ''comuni'' in the province were Olbia (population of 45,366 as of 2001), Tempio Pausania (13,992 as of 2001), Arzachena (12,080 as of 2001) and La Maddalena (11,369 as of 2001). The former province of Olbia-Tempio was formed by a 2001 regional law that became effective in 2005. It contained a section of historic Gallura and was bordered by the provinces of Nuoro and Sassari. On 6 May 2012 the regional referendums of Sardinia took place regarding the abolition of certain provinces and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Province Of Sassari
The province of Sassari ( it, provincia di Sassari, sc, provìntzia de Tàtari, sdc, prubìnzia di Sàssari, ca, província de Sàsser, french: province de Sassari, co, pruvincia di Sassari) is a province in the autonomous island region of Sardinia in Italy. Its capital is the city of Sassari. , the province had a population of 493,357 inhabitants. History In ancient times, between 1600 and 1500 BC, the Nuraghi civilization was at its peak in this area. During the Roman domination, the Logudoro region was one of the main grain suppliers of the Western Roman Empire, and was the seat of several legions. In the Middle Ages, the Logudoro region was the center of one of the four quasi-kingdoms in which Sardinia was divided, the Giudicato di Torres or Logoduro, the first capital being Ardara, later replaced by Sassari. The numerous countryside Romanesque basilicas date from this period. After the conquest by the House of Aragon, Logoduro declined, but later, under the House of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Sardinian Provincial Elections
The 2010 provincial elections of Sardinia took place on 30–31 May 2010. A run-off took place in Cagliari, Nuoro and Ogliastra on 12–13 June. Six provinces were won by the centre-left, two by the centre-right, which gained Olbia-Tempio. Results Presidents , - !align=left rowspan=2 valign=center bgcolor="#E9E9E9", !colspan="3" align="center" valign=top bgcolor="lightblue", The People of Freedom and allies !colspan="3" align="center" valign=top bgcolor="pink", Democratic Party and allies !colspan="3" align="center" valign=top bgcolor="lightgreen", Independence Republic of Sardinia !colspan="1" align="center" valign=top bgcolor="#E9E9E9", Others , - , align="left" bgcolor="lightblue", candidate , align="center" bgcolor="lightblue", 1st round , align="center" bgcolor="lightblue", 2nd round , align="left" bgcolor="pink", candidate , align="center" bgcolor="pink", 1st round , align="center" bgcolor="pink", 2nd round , align="left" bgcolor="lightgreen", candidate , align="center" bg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
