New Sicily

New Sicily (Nuova Sicilia, NS) is a regionalist social-democratic political party based in Sicily. Its founder and current leader is Bartolo Pellegrino. It is composed mainly by former members of the Italian Socialist Party

The party is affiliated to the House of Freedoms, the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi. It participated in the national general election, obtaining 33,437 votes, and the Sicilian regional election of 2006, in a joint ticket with the Movement for Autonomy, obtaining 308,219 (12.5% of regional votes) and ten seats in the Sicilian Regional Assembly.

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Major	The People of Freedom – Democratic Party

Medium	Lega Nord – Union of Christian and Centre Democrats – Italy of Values – Communist Refoundation Party

Minor	Movement for Autonomy – Italian Radicals – Italian Republican Party – White Rose – The Right – Party of Italian Communists – Socialist Party – Tricolour Flame – Federation of the Greens – Democratic Left – Workers' Communist Party – Associative Movement Italians Abroad – New Force

Regional	Valdotanian Union – Edelweiss Aosta Valley – Autonomist Federation – Valdotanian Renewal – Lively Aosta Valley – Moderates for Piedmont – South Tyrolean People's Party – The Libertarians – Union for South Tyrol – Daisy Civic List – Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party – North-East Project – Veneto for the EPP – UDEUR Populars – Democratic Populars – United Populars – Sardinian Reformers – Sardinian People's Party – Sardinian Democratic Union – Sardinian Action Party

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