Italy First (political party)

Italy First (Prima l'Italia) is a national-conservative political party in Italy, which was briefly a faction of Brothers of Italy (FdI).

The party is supported by the New Italy foundation, previously active within the The People of Freedom (PdL) as Alemanno's factional think tank.[1][2]

History

Italy First was launched as a "political association" in October 2013 by Gianni Alemanno, a former mayor of Rome (2008–2013) for the PdL.[3][4] A long-time politician of the Italian Social Movement (MSI) and National Alliance (AN), within which he led the Social Right faction, Alemanno had left the PdL a few days earlier.[5]

The founding manifesto of Italy First included criticism of the PdL, its participation in the European People's Party and its compliance to Europeanism and economic liberalism.[6] One of the first political campaigns of the new party was against the euro currency.[7]

Soon after its foundation, Italy First participated in the process of enlargement of FdI, a party led by Giorgia Meloni, through the "Workshop for Italy"[8] and was finally integrated into FdI in March 2014.[9][10] Italy First thus became a faction within FdI and Alemanno was one of the party's leading candidates in the 2014 European Parliament election: he obtained almost 45,000 personal votes in the South,[11] but was not elected to the European Parliament as FdI was below the 4% national threshold.

In December 2014 Alemanno, who was mired in a scandal related to his tenure as mayor of Rome, and, consequently, Italy First left FdI.[12]

In October 2015, during an assembly of the "National Alliance Foundation" (the association in charge of administering the assets of the defunct party), Alemanno and his supporters, who wanted to form a larger right-wing party (including FdI), lost a vote on the entitlement of AN's symbol over the representatives of FdI, supported by former AN heavyweights who had remained in the PdL. As a result, Alemanno announced that he would create a "Movement for the United Right".[13][14]

Leadership

References

  1. ↑ "Fondazione Nuova Italia". Fondazione Nuova Italia. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  2. ↑ "Per un nuovo centrodestra: prima l'Italia". Fondazione Nuova Italia. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  3. ↑ 14 ottobre 2013. "In pista «Prima l'Italia», Alemanno chiama a raccolta i delusi del centrodestra". Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  4. ↑ "Alemanno lancia Prima l'Italia: «Recuperiamo identità per uscire dalla crisi» - Il Messaggero". Ilmessaggero.it. 2014-06-16. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  5. ↑ "Alemanno dice addio al Pdl: «Mercoledì aderisco a Officina per l'Italia» - Il Messaggero". Ilmessaggero.it. 2014-06-16. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  6. ↑ http://www.fondazionenuovaitalia.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DOCUMENTO-PRIMA-lITALIA.pdf
  7. ↑ "NUOVE REGOLE IN EUROPA O L’ITALIA ESCE DALL’EURO - Activism - Petizioni Online". Activism. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  8. ↑ http://www.officinaperlitalia.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=13&Itemid=124
  9. ↑ "Ecco programma e fini (anti euro) del Partito della Nazione di Giorgia Meloni". Formiche. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  10. ↑ "A Fiuggi La Casa Comune Della Destra Per Fare Il Partito Della Nazione | Prima L'Italia". Primalitalia.net. 2014-02-13. Retrieved 2014-07-18.
  11. ↑ http://elezionistorico.interno.it/candidati.php?tpel=E&dtel=25/05/2014&tpa=I&tpe=I&lev0=0&levsut0=0&lev1=4&levsut1=1&ne1=4&es0=S&es1=S&ms=S&ne=4&nlg=4&ts=C&ccp=11111
  12. ↑ http://www.ilmessaggero.it/ROMA/CRONACA/alemanno_roma_mafia_ho_sbagliato/notizie/1048366.shtml
  13. ↑ http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2015/ottobre/04/scontro_sul_patrimonio_tra_FdI_co_0_20151004_fcddeabc-6a59-11e5-9993-52fe8e9a0874.shtml
  14. ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.it/2015/10/05/an-meloni-sconfigge-alemanno-fini_n_8242638.html

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