Adriano Tilgher

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Adriano Tilgher (born 1 October 1947 in Taranto) is an Italian far right politician.

Tilgher began his career as a member of the Italian Social Movement, although in his youth he was also associated with the extremist National Vanguard, and attempted to refound it in 1970, a move which saw him arrested for attempting to refound the Fascist Party. He was arrested again for the same offence in 1982 and imprisoned until 1987 when he founded the Lega Nazionalpopolare, later rebranded as Alternativa Nazional Popolare. Both movements proved short-lived and lacking in support.

After giving up on the idea of leading his own movement he joined radical Fiamma Tricolore (a splinter-group of the newly constituted National Alliance) in 1996. He was, however, expelled from Fiamma Tricolore in 1997 for his criticism of the leadership of Pino Rauti and in September of that year he set up his own party, Fronte Nazionale, initially in imitation of the Front National, whose leader Jean-Marie Le Pen Tilgher invited to Rome during the elections of that year. The party is now known as Fronte Sociale Nazionale and, although Tilgher is still leader, he is subordinate to Alessandra Mussolini in the Alternativa Sociale coalition.