Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia
Futuro e Libertà per l'Italia (FLI, German: Future and Freedom for Italy ) was an Italian party founded on February 13, 2011 , which arose from a faction in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Italian Senate that had existed since July 31, 2010 . It was a split from the center-right rallying party Il Popolo della Libertà . Its chairman was Gianfranco Fini , the then President of the Chamber of Deputies, who had fallen out with his former ally Silvio Berlusconi . The party has been described as liberal , liberal conservative, and national conservative . At the end of 2013 or beginning of 2014, it actually dissolved.
history
background
The party Forza Italia of Silvio Berlusconi and the national conservative National Alliance headed by Gianfranco Fini were to 2008/09 center-right umbrella party The People of Freedom merged (PdL). This had won the parliamentary elections in 2008 and then led the government ( Berlusconi IV cabinet ). Gianfranco Fini has since been President of the Camera dei deputati (Lower House of the Italian Parliament). He was considered the "Crown Prince" Berlusconi, d. H. as a potential successor at the top of the PdL and the center-right coalition.
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In the period that followed, however, there were tensions between Fini and Berlusconi. Fini called for a more liberal naturalization law and criticized Berlusconi's partnership with the Lega Nord . In April 2010, a group of Finis (Finiani) supporters around the MP Italo Bocchino founded the association Generazione Italia , which consisted mainly of southern Italian conservatives. On July 29, 2010, the party executive of the PdL decided that a cooperation with Fini was no longer possible and asked him to resign.
Founding of the parliamentary group (2010)
As a result, the Finiani - 33 MPs and 10 Senators - left the PdL parliamentary groups the next day and founded a new parliamentary group in both chambers of parliament called Futuro e Libertà. Per l'Italia . Italo Bocchino assumed the chairmanship of the parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies, and Pasquale Viespoli in the Senate . The Vice Minister for Economic Development Adolfo Urso was appointed coordinator, and the MP Silvano Moffa was appointed spokesman for FLI. After the split, Fini initially stated that he did not want to overthrow the government. Most of the members wanted to remain in the center-right camp and not enter into an alliance against Berlusconi with the opposition Partito Democratico .
On November 15, 2010, the four ministers and state secretaries who were close to the FLI resigned from the Berlusconi government (including Adolfo Urso and European Minister Andrea Ronchi ). In the European Parliament were five former PdL MPs of the FLI at (u. A. Cristiana Muscardini ), but they remained members of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) . On December 2, 2010 the parliamentary groups or groups of the FLI, UdC , ApI , MpA and LD submitted a motion of no confidence in the Berlusconi government, which was narrowly rejected in the Camera dei Deputati on December 14 (314 against 311 votes). Three FLI MPs (including Catia Polidori ) also voted against the motion, Silvano Moffa abstained. They then left the FLI group again.
On December 15, 2010, the FLI, the Christian Democratic UdC Pier Ferdinando Casinis , the centrist ApI Francesco Rutellis and the southern Italian MPA Raffaele Lombardos founded an alliance that is the “third pole” between the ruling center-right coalition Berlusconi and the opposition center -Left block positioned around the PD. This alliance adopted the name Nuovo Polo per l'Italia (“New Pole for Italy”) in January 2011 .
FLI as a party (2011-14)
The founding party conference of the FLI took place in Milan on February 11-13, 2011, Andrea Ronchi chaired the meeting. Gianfranco Fini was elected party chairman, Italo Bocchino as his deputy and Roberto Menia as coordinator. Giulia Bongiorno has been appointed spokeswoman for the party. In April 2011, representatives of the “moderate” wing around Adolfo Urso, Andrea Ronchi and Antonio Buonfiglio formed the FareItalia association . In July 2011 they left the FLI and switched to the "mixed group" of non-attached MPs. In the following period they approached Berlusconi's PdL again.
For the parliamentary elections in Italy 2013 , FLI was part of the alliance of Mario Monti , whose market-economy-oriented reform course the party supported. FLI achieved only 0.5% of the votes and thus no longer had any MPs. The poor performance led to internal disputes over direction, the withdrawal of party leader Fini and numerous party withdrawals.
The party now oriented itself increasingly to the right and tried to revive the old Alleanza Nazionale. In November 2013, the interim party leader Roberto Menia received leaders of similarly minded parties, namely La Destra , Fiamma Tricolore , Io Sud , Nuova Alleanza , Nazione Sovrana and Il Popolo della Vita to found the Movimento per Alleanza Nazionale . However, this project remained obsolete when La Destra turned away from him and instead sought the coalition with Forza Italia again . Within the national-conservative spectrum, the new party Fratelli d'Italia - Alleanza Nazionale (which was also joined by the former FLI coordinator Adolfo Urso) gained the upper hand and made FLI meaningless. The party has not been active since 2014, even if there was no official resolution to dissolve it.
Composition and political origin of the members
The members of the group were called Finiani ; most of the members were long-time followers of Fini. Many were already members of the Alleanza Nazionale and its predecessor party, the neo-fascist MSI . This group included most of the 36 MEPs (e.g. Italo Bocchino, Fabio Granata, Carmelo Briguglio and Flavia Perina); they formed a wing. Within this there were two sub-groups: The “radicals” (led by Italo Bocchino ) wanted a consistent break with Berlusconi and the PdL; the "moderates" (including Adolfo Urso , Andrea Ronchi ) continued to see themselves as allies of the PdL and the center-right bloc. The latter left the FLI again in summer 2011.
The second, socio-politically liberal wing was formed by some ex-socialists, i.e. former members of the PSI who were elected to parliament for Berlusconi's Forza Italia, as well as ex- radicals (social liberals). Most of the ten senators (including Benedetto Della Vedova ) belonged to this wing .
guide
- Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies (until 2013): Italo Bocchino
- Senate Chairman (until 2013): Pasquale Viespoli
Individual evidence
- ^ Julius Müller-Meiningen: Berlusconi ends alliance with Fini. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 31, 2010, accessed June 15, 2015 .
- ↑ “Futuro e libertà”: Bocchino eletto capogruppo, vice è Della Vedova. In: blitz quotidiano. August 4, 2010, accessed June 15, 2015 (Italian).