Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party
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The Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (Italian: Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese, PATT) is a regionalist,[1] autonomist,[2] Christian-democratic[1] and centrist[3] political party in Trentino, Italy. The PATT, heir of the Trentino Tyrolean People's Party, is the unofficial counterpart of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), active in South Tyrol. The two are members of the European People's Party (EPP) and usually contest general and European Parliament elections together.[4]
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese | |
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Secretary | Simone Marchiori |
President | Franco Panizza |
Founded | 17 January 1988 |
Merger of | Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Union Integral Autonomy |
Preceded by | Trentino Tyrolean People's Party |
Headquarters | Via Roma, 7 38122 Trento |
Ideology | Regionalism Autonomism Christian democracy |
Political position | Centre |
Regional affiliation | Centre-left coalition (2002–2018) Centre-right coalition (since 2023) |
European affiliation | European People's Party |
Colors | Black |
Chamber of Deputies | 0 / 630 |
Senate | 0 / 315 |
European Parliament | 0 / 73 |
Provincial Council | 1 / 35 |
Website | |
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Simone Marchiori is the party's current secretary, Franco Panizza its president. Ugo Rossi, a former member and leader, was the president of Trentino in 2013–2018. Marchiori, Panizza and Rossi are centrists and long supported the centre-left coalition with the Democratic Party and the Union for Trentino (PATT's coalition partners from 2002 to 2018). Former president Walter Kaswalder, who was evicted from the party in January 2017, held a more conservative (and traditional) position, that resonated well with the party's grassroots.[5][6] Most Kaswalder's followers, notably including Dario Chilovi and Linda Tamanini (another former president), as well as the group around Mauro Ottobre (the PATT's representative in the Chamber of Deputies in 2013–2018) and the "Tyrolean" nationalists and separatists led by Giuseppe Corona[7] successively left the party too.[8][9] However, the alliance with the centre-left was broken in the run-up to the 2018 provincial election. The party later aligned with the centre-right coalition and especially with the alike autonomist Lega Trentino for the 2023 provincial election; in the process, several centre-left figures, notably including Luigi Panizza and Dario Pallaoro, left the party and joined Autonomy House.