Everything about The Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party totally explained
The
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (
Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese, PATT) is a
regionalist christian-democratic Italian political party based in
Trentino.
History
The party was founded in
1948 as
Trentino Tyrolean People's Party (
Partito Popolare Trentino Tirolese, PPTT). In
1982 a split between the conservative, led by
Franco Tretter, and the centrist wings of the party, led by longstanding leader
Enrico Pruner. The first group retained the name of the party, while second one took the name of
Integral Autonomy (
Autonomia Integrale, AI). Soon later a third party, named
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Union (
Unione Autonomista Trentino Tirolese, UATT), emerged. In
1988 the three groups were re-united with the current name.
Golden age
In the 1993 provincial election the party had its best result ever (20.2%), thanks to the crisis of
Christian Democracy (DC), and its leader
Carlo Andreotti was President of the
Province of Trento for the successive five years, at the head of a coalition composed of PATT and the
Italian People's Party, one of the successors of DC, and some minor parties.
In 1998 the party suffered a reatret to 12.4%, due to the big result of the newly-formed
Daisy Civic List (22.2%), with which it entered in coalition. Despite this PATT formed an alliance with the
House of Freedoms and especially
Lega Nord Trentino for the
2001 general election, but
Giacomo Bezzi was narrowly defeated in the single-seat-constituency of
Lavis.
In the last provincial elections of 2003, PATT scored 9.0%, down from its best result ever in 1993 (20.2%). Indeed in 2002, when it entered in alliance with the centre-left coalition (in Trentino dominated by the
Daisy Civic List,
Civica), it suffered the split of those who wanted to continue to collaborate with the centre-right. These splinters, led by former leader and President of Trentino
Carlo Andreotti, formed a much minor group called
Autonomist Trentino, closely tied with
Forza Italia, which scored 2.2%. In that occasion Andreotti was the candidate for President of the centre-right and he was soundly defeated (60.8% to 30.7%) by incumbent
Lorenzo Dellai (
Civica).
Recent events
After the
2006 general election, thanks to an electoral pact with the
South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), PATT was for the second time ever represented in the
Chamber of Deputies by its former secretary
Giacomo Bezzi (PPTT had a Senator from
1972 to
1976,
Sergio Fontanari).
For the
2008 general election PATT formed an alliance with Daisy Civic List and SVP for the
Senate (
Sergio Muraro, PATT, will be the candidate in the single-seat constituency of
Pergine Valsugana), while for the Chamber of Deputies PATT will support the SVP. Prior to the electoral campaign Giacomo Bezzi, who didn't stay for re-election, announced that he'll form a new regionalist party allied with the
People of Freedom and
Lega Nord and that he'll vote for the centre-right in the election. This doesn't mean that PATT will suffer a new split, after that of Autonomist Trentino in 2003, indeed also would-be Senator Muraro didn't rule out the possibility of an alliance with the centre-right, if
Silvio Berlusconi will become again Prime Minister.
In the general election the centre-left was for the first time defeated in Trentino and Sergio Muraro wasn't elected. This bad result brought PATT into a bitter turmoil. Giacomo Bezzi, who didn't leave the party yet, proposed to launch a new regionalist party along with
Autonomist Trentino and PATT itself. The likely name of the new party is "Popular Autonomists". He also proposed an alliance with the centre-right for the October provincial election, in which the centre-left is advantaged, and that Sergio Divina, Senator and leader of Lega Nord Trentino, could be the candidate for President.
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