Democratic Union of Alto Adige
The Democratic Union of Alto Adige (Template:Lang-it) was an Italian-speaking Christian-democratic political party active in South Tyrol, Italy. Its long-time leader was Luigi Cigolla. The party had a counterpart in Trentino, the Autonomist People's Union.
The party emerged in 1993 as a local split from Christian Democracy and garnered 1.7% of the vote in that year's provincial election.
In the 2003 provincial election the party formed an alliance with Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy and the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats named Autonomist Union. The coalition won 3.7% and Cigolla, re-elected to the Provincial Council for the third time in a row,[1] was appointed provincial minister.[2][3][4]
In 2008 the party was merged with the provincial section of Italy of Values,[5] which obtained a mere 1.6% in the provincial election, leaving Cigolla without his seat.
References
- ^ http://www.provinz.bz.it/aprov/amministrazione/amministrazione/405.asp
- ^ http://www.uibk.ac.at/politikwissenschaft/mitarbeiterinnen/pallaver/pdf/pallaver_561-600.pdf
- ^ http://www.provincia.bz.it/vote/2003/risultati_provincia.htm
- ^ http://www.provincia.bz.it/aprov/giunta-provinciale/cigolla.asp
- ^ http://ricerca.quotidianiespresso.it/altoadige/archivio/altoadige/2008/09/11/AZ6PO_AZ601.html