Party of Sicilians explained

Party of Sicilians
Native Name:Partito dei Siciliani
Leader1 Title:Leader
Leader1 Name:Raffaele Lombardo
Foundation:August 2012
Ideology:Sicilian regionalism[1]
Autonomism[2] [3]
Position:Centre-right[4] [5]
National:Movement for Autonomies
Seats1 Title:Sicilian Regional Assembly
Country:Italy

The Party of Sicilians (Italian: Partito dei Siciliani, PdS) was a regionalist and Christian-democratic political party in Sicily. It was the Sicilian regional section of the Movement for Autonomy (MpA).

History

In August 2012 it was announced that the Sicilian section of the MpA would be renamed Party of Sicilians (PdS).[6] [7] Contextually, Raffaele Lombardo, MpA leader and incumbent President of Sicily, chose not to run again in the 2012 Sicilian regional election. The newly formed PdS supported Gianfranco Micciché for President, as part of a "Sicilianist" coalition comprising Micciché's Great South (GS), the Sicilian People's Movement (MPS) and the regional section of Future and Freedom (FLI).[8] Micciché won 15.4% of the vote, while the PdS obtained 9.5% and ten regional deputies.[9]

In 2017 Angelo Attaguile, the only member of PdS in the Chamber of Deputies, led a split from the party and became secretary of Us with Salvini (NcS), sister party of Lega Nord (LN) in southern Italy. Another split occurred in 2015 when Rino Piscitello, PdS secretary since 2013, launched Sicily Nation (SN), which would later merge into the Sicilian National Movement (MNS).

In the 2017 regional election the PdS/MpA formed teamed up with Francesco Saverio Romano's Cantiere Popolare (CP) under the banner of "Populars and Autonomists".[10] [11] [12] The list won 7.1% of the vote, obtained six regional deputies and entered the regional government led by Nello Musumeci, the newly elected President of Sicily.[13]

After that, the PdS was absorbed into the MpA, which was re-organised in Sicily alone.

Electoral results

Sicilian Regional Assembly

Sicilian Regional Assembly
width=13%Election yearwidth=16%Voteswidth=6%% width=1%Seatswidth=8%+/−width=18%Leader
2012182,737 (5th)9.5Giovanni Pistorio
2017136,520 (4th)7.1Giuseppe Maria Reina

Leadership

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wolfram Nordsieck . Parties and Elections in Europe . Parties-and-elections.eu . 2015-05-19.
  2. Book: ANSA. Il libro ANSA 2007. Notizie, immagini, personaggi. 23 March 2014. 2007. Gremese Editore. it. 978-88-8440-457-2. 46.
  3. Book: D'Atena, Antonio. Sesto rapporto sullo stato del regionalismo in Italia. 23 March 2014. 2011. Giuffrè Editore. 978-88-14-17198-7. 54. it.
  4. Book: Giancarlo Minaldi. La via del declino di un modello di rappresentanza: il ceto politico meridionale nei governo della transizione italiana. Antonio La Spina. Claudio Riolo. Il Mezzogiorno nel sistema politico italiano: classi dirigenti, criminalità organizzata, politiche pubbliche. https://books.google.com/books?id=j5AHiS4ebIMC&pg=PA62. 23 March 2014. 2012. FrancoAngeli. it. 978-88-204-1029-2. 62.
  5. Book: Cotta. Maurizio. Verzichelli. Luca. Il Sistema Politico Italiano. 23 March 2014. 2008. Il Mulino. it. 978-88-15-12221-6.
  6. http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/palermo/notizie/politica/2012/3-settembre-2012/partito-siciliani-ora-ha-anche-simbolo-pistorio-presenta-catania-2111672079220.shtml Il Partito dei siciliani ora ha anche il simbolo: Pistorio lo presenta a Catania – Corriere del Mezzogiorno
  7. Web site: Elezioni regionali, nasce il Partitodei Siciliani, sosterrà Miccichè Presidente - Il Giornale di Ragusa . 2012-09-06 . dead . https://archive.today/20130111201252/http://www.ilgiornalediragusa.it/notizie/politica/43019-elezioni-regionali-nasce-il-partito-dei-siciliani-sosterra-micciche-presidente.html . 2013-01-11 .
  8. http://affaritaliani.libero.it/politica/sicilia280812.html Sicilia/ Micciché molla Musumeci – Affaritaliani.it
  9. http://www.repubblica.it/static/speciale/2012/elezioni/regionali/sicilia.html#risultati Sicilia – Elezioni Regionali 28 ottobre 2012 – la Repubblica.it
  10. Web site: Elezioni regionali, il cartello degli autonomisti Mpa-Cantiere popolare: "Arriviamo alla doppia cifra". 25 September 2017.
  11. Web site: Da Lagalla a Lombardo passando per Saverio Romano, ecco il simbolo di 'Popolari e autonomisti'. 22 September 2017.
  12. Web site: Regionali: Asse tra Lombardo, Romano e Lagalla. I nomi dei catanesi e l'incognita del "nipote di".
  13. Web site: Regione, ecco la nuova giunta - Nomi e Foto.