The Party of Sardinian People – Fortza Paris (Partito del Popolo Sardo – Fortza Paris, PPS) is a regionalist political party in Sardinia.
The party's self-proclaimed ideology comprises "all what the 20th Century had it good", including Christian democracy, liberalism, social democracy and federalism,[1] but it is basically a Christian-democratic party emerged from the regional section of the United Christian Democrats.
In the 2004 regional election the PPS won 4.6% of the vote and 3 regional deputies.[2] In the 2005 provincial elections a member of the PPS, Pasquale Onida, was elected President of the Province of Oristano. In the 2008 general election party leader Silvestro Ladu was candidate for The People of Freedom (PdL) for the Italian Senate, but was not elected.[3]
In late 2008 several members of PPS, including Onida, Ladu and all the other three regional deputies chose to join the PdL, while a minority, led by Gianfranco Scalas, refused to do it.[4][5] In the 2009 Sardinian regional election Ladu and other two PPS members, Domenico Gallus and Renato Lai, were elected to the Regional Council for the PdL, while Scalas, who was a candidate of a joint list with the local Movement for Autonomy, failed to get into it. In 2009 a former regional leader of the PPS, Adriano Aversano, launched Lega Sarda, that could become the Sardinian "national section" of Lega Nord.[6]
In the 2010 provincial elections the party suffered a general decline in term of votes, but in Oristano, its stronghold, where it won 9.9% of the vote.[7]