Alto Adige in the Heart

Alto Adige in the Heart (Italian: L'Alto Adige nel Cuore, AAC) is a minor conservative^[1] political party active in South Tyrol, Italy. The party is led by Alessandro Urzì and seeks to represent the Italian-speaking minority in the province, whose official Italian name is indeed Alto Adige.

AAC was formed in January 2013 as a locally based party upon the fragmentation of The People of Freedom (PdL), Italy's main centre-right party, in the Province.^[2] Its leader Alessandro Urzì, a long-time conservative politician who had been a member of the Italian Social Movement, National Alliance, the PdL and finally Future and Freedom, was the most voted candidate among Italian-speakers in the 2008 provincial election.^[2][3][4] In June Urzì broadened the base of his party by welcoming Maurizio Vezzali, another dissenting PdL provincial councillor who had been previously active with Forza Italia.^[5][6]

In the 2013 provincial election AAC obtained 2.1% of the vote and Urzì was re-elected to the Provincial Council, while all his former opponents in the PdL lost (the only elect of the Forza Alto Adige–Lega Nord Alto Adige/Südtirol list was Elena Artioli, member of the League and multi-lingual).^[7]

References

External links

• Official webpage

Political parties in South Tyrol Parties with seats in Landtag (Bolzano provincial council) South Tyrolean People's Party (17) Die Freiheitlichen (6) Greens (3) South Tyrolean Freedom (3) Democratic Party (2) Lega Nord Alto Adige/Südtirol (1) Five Star Movement (1) Citizens' Union for South Tyrol (1) Alto Adige in the Heart (1) Politics of South Tyrol List of political parties in South Tyrol