Party of Sicilians

The Party of Sicilians (Italian: Partito dei Siciliani, PdS) is an regionalist political party in Italy, which is the regional section of the Movement for the Autonomies (MpA) in Sicily.

In the run-up of the 2012 Sicilian regional election Raffaele Lombardo, President of Sicily and MpA leader, decided not stand for re-election, but wanted to reinfornce the regionalist path traced by his party. In August 2012 it was announced that the Sicilian section of the MpA would be renamed.[1][2] The newly formed PdS supported Gianfranco Micciché for President, as part of a "Sicilianist" coalition including also Micciché's Great South (GS), the Sicilian People's Movement and the local wing of Future and Freedom.[3] Micciché won 15.4% of the vote and the PdS obtained a mere 9.5%.[4]

The PdS/MpA failed to pass the electoral thresholds in the 2013 general election (the GS–MpA got a mere 0.4% nationally in the Chamber race,[5] while the PdS regional list for the Senate garnered just 2.2% of the vote),[5] but, thanks to an agreement with the The People of Freedom, had one deputy (Angelo Attaguile) and two senators (Antonio Scavone and Pippo Compagnone) elected.[6] Attaguile chose to team up with Lega Nord in the "Lega Nord–Autonomies" parliamentary group.[7]

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References

  1. ↑ Il Partito dei siciliani ora ha anche il simbolo: Pistorio lo presenta a Catania - Corriere del Mezzogiorno
  2. ↑ http://www.ilgiornalediragusa.it/notizie/politica/43019-elezioni-regionali-nasce-il-partito-dei-siciliani-sosterra-micciche-presidente.html
  3. ↑ Sicilia/ Micciché molla Musumeci - Affaritaliani.it
  4. ↑ Sicilia - Elezioni Regionali 28 ottobre 2012 - la Repubblica.it
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://elezioni.interno.it/senato/scrutini/20130224/S190000000.htm
  6. ↑ Lombardo fuori dal Senato, ma il Pds ha due senatori e un deputato
  7. ↑ Lega, con il Pdl alle consultazioni. Calderoli: non andremo in aiuto del Pd - Politica - ANSA.it