Sardinian Action Party
| Sardinian Action Party | |
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| President | Giacomo Sanna |
| Secretary | Giovanni Angelo Colli |
| Founded | 17 April 1921 |
| Headquarters | Cagliari |
| Newspaper | none |
| Membership | unknown |
| Ideology | Regionalism, social liberalism |
| International affiliation | none |
| European affiliation | European Free Alliance |
| European Parliament Group | no MEPs |
| Chamber of Deputies |
0 / 630
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| Senate |
0 / 315
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| European Parliament |
0 / 73
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| Regional Council of Sardinia |
5 / 80
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| Website | |
| http://www.psdaz.org | |
| Politics of Sardinia Political parties Elections |
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The Sardinian Action Party (Partito Sardo d'Azione, PSdAz) is a regionalist social-liberal political party in Sardinia, which has recently sided with The People of Freedom, the largest centre-right party in Italy.
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[edit] History
The party was founded in April 1921 and was re-organized after World War II by Emilio Lussu, secretary for Southern Italy of the Action Party during the war, and other veterans from the "Sassari brigade", a social-democratic group of the Italian resistance movement. Lussu left the party in 1948 to found the short-lived Sardinian Socialist Action Party, which joined the Italian Socialist Party in 1949, as many other PSd'Az members did.[1] The two parties won 10.4 and 6.6% respectively in the first regional election in 1949.
After a decline in term of votes in the 1960s and 1970s, the party re-gained strength in the 1980s (13.8% in 1984 and 12.4% in 1989). Following these results, Sardist Mario Melis was President of Sardinia between 1984 and 1989 at the head of a five-party coalition composed also by the Italian Communist Party, the Italian Socialist Party, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party and the Italian Republican Party.
This was the highest point in party history: the PSd'Az was represented in the Italian Parliament from 1983 to 1994 and Mario Melis was a MEP from 1989 to 1994.
In the 2004 regional election the PSd'Az won 3.9% of the vote and w regional deputies. The party was part of the centre-left coalition which governed Sardinia, led by President Renato Soru. In 2007 one of the two regional deputies left the party to join the regional Democratic Party.
In the 2006 general election leader Giacomo Sanna, due to an electoral pact named Pact for the Autonomies, was candidate of Lega Nord for the Senate in Lombardy, but failed to get elected. The party ran alone in the 2008 general election, winning only 1.5% in the Region.[2]
For the 2009 regional election the party finally chose to join the centre-right coalition in support of Ugo Cappellacci, who defeated Soru. This provoked the split of the left-wing that formed Red Moors.
Despite this, in the election the PSd'Az won 4.3% of the vote (having its strongholds in the traditionally left-wing Provinces of Nuoro and Carbonia-Iglesias, where it gained 7.5 and 7.1%, respectively[3]) and four regional deputies plus one (Giacomo Sanna) elected in Cappellacci's regional list.[4] The Red Moors won 2.5% and 1 deputy.
In the 2010 provincial elections the party was strongest in Nuoro (12.8%), Sassari (6.9%), Olbia-Tempio (6.7%) and Cagliari (6.4%).[5]
[edit] Popular support
The electoral results of PSd'Az in Sardinia from 1946 to 1979 are shown in the table below. In 1961 (regional), 1963 (general) and 1965 (regional) the party formed joint lists with the Italian Republican Party. In the general elections of 1972, 1976 and 1979 did not run lists for the Italian Chamber of Deputies.
| 1946 general | 1948 general | 1949 regional | 1953 general | 1953 regional | 1957 regional | 1958 general | 1961 regional | 1963 general | 1965 regional | 1968 general | 1969 regional | 1974 regional | 1979 regional |
| 14.9 | 10.3 | 10.4 | 3.4 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 7.2 | 4.1 | 6.4 | 3.6 | 4.4 | 3.1 | 3.3 |
The electoral results of PSd'Az in Sardinia since 1983 are shown in the table below.
| 1983 general | 1984 regional | 1987 general | 1989 regional | 1992 general | 1994 general | 1994 regional | 1996 general | 1999 regional | 2001 general | 2004 regional | 2006 general | 2008 general | 2009 regional |
| 12.5 | 9.5 | 13.8 | 12.0 | 6.7 | 8.0[6] | 5.1[7] | 3.8 | 4.5[8] | 4.1[9] | 3.9[10] | - | 1.5 | 4.3 |
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.partitosardo.it/index.aspx?m=53&did=54
- ^ http://politiche.interno.it/politiche/camera080413/C260000000.htm
- ^ http://www.regione.sardegna.it/argomenti/attivita_istituzionali/elezioni2009/risultaticiscoscrizione.html
- ^ http://www.regione.sardegna.it/documenti/1_204_20090302175233.pdf
- ^ Ministry of the Interior
- ^ This result refers to the party's score in single-seat constituencies.
- ^ This result refers to the provincial lists of the party, whose regional list gained 6.8% of the vote.
- ^ This result refers to the party list; Franco Meloni, candidate for President, won 8.3% of the vote.
- ^ This result refers to the score of the joint list with Sardinia Nation in single-seat constituencies.
- ^ This result refers to the party list; Giacomo Sanna, candidate for President supported also by Sardinia Nation, won 3.7% of the vote.
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