Integral Autonomy (1982)

For the party with the similar name, see Integral Autonomy (1998).

Integral Autonomy (Italian: Autonomia Integrale, AI) was a regionalist Christian-democratic Italian political party based in Trentino. It was also known as PPTT–UE–Two Edelweiss (Partito Popolare Trentino Tirolese per l'Unione Europea – due stelle alpine).^[1]

History

In 1982 the Trentino Tyrolean People's Party (PPTT) broke up: the more conservative wing formed the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Union (UATT), while the more centrist wing formed Integral Autonomy, under the leadership of the longstanding leader of the PPTT Enrico Pruner.^[2]

In the 1983 provincial election Integral Autonomy won only 3.1% of the vote, while Franco Tretter's UATT the much higher 8.2%. In the 1984 European Parliament election, it joined Liga Veneta's Union for a Federalist Europe.^[3]

In 1988 the two parties merged into the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party, which gained 9.9% in the subsequent provincial election.