Edelweiss Aosta Valley
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Edelweiss Aosta Valley (Stella Alpina Valle d'Aosta, SA) is a christian-democratic and centrist Italian political party active in Aosta Valley.
It was founded in 2001 by the merger of the Autonomists and the Autonomist Federation. The Autonomists were basically the Valdotanian section of the Italian People's Party, one of the successors of Christian Democracy, while the Autonomist Federation was formed basically by former Autonomists Democrats Progressives, along with former Socialists and of the Republicans.
In the 2003 regional election, SA scored 19.8%[1] and got elected seven regional deputies[2]. Soon later the Autonomist Federation re-gained its independence from SA. From 2001 to 2006, SA was represented in the Italian Chamber of Deputies by Ivo Collé. The party currently controls five seats in the Regional Council. Of the five regional deputies, four are former members of Christian Democracy and one is a former Republican.
In the 2006 general election, the party formed an alliance with the Valdotanian Union and the Autonomist Federation (SA leader Marco Viérin was candidate for the Chamber of Deputies), the Autonomy Progress Federalism Aosta Valley, but was soundly defeated by the centre-left list Autonomy Liberty Democracy.
In the 2008 regional election the party, which included four candidates of the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats (UDC) in its list, won 11.4% of the vote and 4 regional deputies (out of 35), while the three-party regionalist coalition won 62.0% and a large majority, composed of 22 regional deputies.[3] No candidate of UDC was elected.
[edit] Leadership
- President: Maurizio Martin (2001–...)
- Secretary: Rudi Marguerettaz (2001–...)
