Donato Seppi (born in Bolzano in 1953) is an Italian politician, who has founded the local party Unitalia.
Since his early days, Donato Seppi strongly supported the Italian-speaking population of South Tyrol, growing up in a period of ethnic tensions which culminated in terrorist acts by the South Tyrolean Liberation Committee like the Night of Fire. He was the owner of a small company engaged in the construction industry, and a former Alpini officer. He was elected in 1995 for the National Alliance in the Bolzano city council.
In 1996, Seppi founded with several like-minded persons the party Unitalia, whose current chairman he is. Since then he has defended the Bolzano Victory Monument (called in Italian Monumento alla Vittoria), as a symbol of the Italian community in Bolzano and province.[1]
Since January 2008 the party was the provincial section of The Right in South Tyrol[2], but left that party as soon as in November, when Seppi decided to join the Movement for Italy (Movimento per l'Italia/MpI), a split from "The Right" led by Daniela Santanchè and since then Unitalia became the provincial section of the MpI.[3]
In the 2008 provincial election the party won 1.9% of the votes and Seppi was re-elected to the Provincial Council.