Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese
The Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese ( PATT ; German : Autonomistic Trentiner Tyrolean Party ) is an Italian regional party . It sees itself as a Christian Democratic party in the center, whose particular concern is the autonomy of Trentino . Its forerunner was the Partito Popolare Trentino Tirolese (PPTT) founded in 1948 .
She has had observer status with the European People's Party (EPP) since 2016 .
history
Partito Popolare Trentino Tirolese (1948–82)
The historical roots of the Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese can be traced back to the Associazione Studi Autonomistici Regionali , ASAR for short, the legacy of which the party calls itself. ASAR, founded in September 1945, campaigned for a statute of autonomy for the Trentino-South Tyrol region . She was expressly not concerned with autonomy for the predominantly German and Ladin-speaking areas of South Tyrol, but with "integral autonomy from Ala to Brenner " (autonomia integrale da Ala al Brennero) , in which the Italian language group would have the majority of the population. Such a statute was also agreed in September 1946 in the Gruber-De-Gasperi Agreement . In 1947 the movement was able to mobilize around 30,000 participants for a rally in Trento . In fact, the Trentino-Alto Adige region - consisting of the provinces of Trento and Bolzano - was declared autonomous by the law of February 26, 1948. On July 25, 1948, the majority of the participants in the last ASAR congress decided to transform it into a party, the Partito Popolare Trentino Tirolese (PPTT, German: Trentiner Tiroler Volkspartei).
The transformation of the movement into a party and the splitting off of some delegates who founded their own autonomist movement led to a decline in popular support. In the first regional elections on November 28, 1948, the PPTT received only 16.8% of the vote in the province of Trento and thus 4 regional council members, while the Democrazia Cristiana , which at that time provided the Italian prime minister with Alcide De Gasperi from Trentino , received 57.6 % of the vote came. In the province of Bolzano, the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP) represented the interests of the autonomy movement, the PPTT played no role there.
In the following decades, the governments of the Trentino-Alto Adige and Trentino regions were dominated by the DC, in the regional council in coalition with the South Tyrolean People's Party, with which tensions often arose. The chairman of the PPTT at this time was Enrico Pruner, a member of the Bavarian- speaking minority from the Fersental , who was a member of the regional council from 1952 to 1984 (with interruptions). The importance of the PPTT initially declined further in the 1950s; in the regional elections in 1960 it only achieved 3.8% and one seat. Most of the Trentino residents voted for the Italian parties that they knew from the national level (above all DC, PSI , PSDI ). As a regional councilor for mountain economy and forestry, Pruner made a name for himself as a pioneer for environmental protection from 1960. The PPTT recovered from the mid-1960s, winning 7.4% and two seats in 1968. Pruner's strategic goal was better understanding with the SVP, which is often seen as the older sister of the PPTT or PATT. The SVP advocated dissolving the autonomous region of Trentino-South Tyrol and transferring all of its competencies to the two provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino . The PPTT, on the other hand, feared that this could jeopardize the continued existence of the autonomy of Trentino because it is not significantly influenced by ethnic or linguistic minorities.
The second statute of autonomy for Trentino and South Tyrol from 1972 was in this respect a compromise: The two provinces of Bolzano and Trento were declared autonomous, each with its own state parliament and governor. A large part of the region's competencies was transferred to them. At the same time, however, the Autonomous Region of Trentino-South Tyrol was retained, with the joint institutions of the Regional Council, Committee and President. The PPTT then continued to grow: in 1973 and 1978 it received around 9% and three seats respectively. At the end of the 1970s, the party renamed itself Partito Popolare Trentino Tirolese per l'Unione Europea (PPTT-UE). The per l'Unione Europea (“for the European Union”) should underline their commitment to European integration . For the first direct European elections in 1979 , the PPTT joined numerous minority and regional parties (Federalismo Europa Autonomie) under the leadership of the Union Valdôtaine , which, however, was not given a seat.
The PPTT broke up in 1982 into the Unione Autonomista Trentino Tirolese (UATT) under the leadership of Franco Tretter and the Autonomia Integrale Enrico Pruner. In the regional elections in 1983, the UATT (which ran in association with the SVP) received 8.2% and three seats, the Autonomia Integrale 6.2% and two seats.
Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese (from 1988)
In January 1988, UATT and Autonomia Integrale reunited with several other autonomist movements at a congress in Riva del Garda . The new party name became Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese . Franco Tretter and Enrico Pruner were elected co-chairmen, while Carlo Andreotti was appointed party secretary (the actual political leadership position) . In the regional election in the same year, the PATT received 9.9% and three seats.
The 1993 regional elections took place under the influence of the Tangentopoli corruption scandal , in which the five established ruling parties at the national level ( Pentapartito ) were involved. The PATT, which was able to present itself as a clean alternative, doubled its share of the vote to 20.2% and the number of its seats rose to seven. So she was close behind the massively broken DC in second place. With Andreotti, a PATT member was elected Governor of Trentino for the first time. Due to difficult political conditions, he had to form three different governments during his term in office until 1999.
In 1999 the PATT suffered significant losses (12.4% and four seats). Instead, the previous mayor of Trento and former DC politician Lorenzo Dellai won with his citizen list Margherita , which also had an autonomous orientation. In the following period the PATT moved closer to Silvio Berlusconi's coalition Casa delle Libertà , with which it entered into a regional alliance in the Italian parliamentary elections in 2001 . However, the PATT candidate Giacomo Bezzi was defeated by the center-left candidate and following this defeat there was a break with the center-right alliance and in the regional council to form a coalition with the center-left alliance and the SVP. Due to an agreement with the SVP, Andreotti, a PATT member, was elected President of the region for the period from 2002 to 2004.
In the 2003 provincial elections, the PATT joined a center-left coalition with Dellais Margherita list, the left- wing Democrats , the Greens and smaller groups. Carlo Andreotti, however, disagreed with this decision, resigned from the party and ran for the center-right block with the Trentino Autonomista list . The PATT got 9% of the vote and three seats, Trentino Autonomista got 2.2% and one seat. Lorenzo Dellai remained governor and included the PATT in his government. Ugo Rossi became the new party secretary .
In the Italian parliamentary elections in 2006 , the party entered a joint list with the SVP. Thanks to the electoral success of the center-left alliance L'Unione , to which the PATT and SVP belong, Giacomo Bezzi, a PATT politician, was elected to the House of Representatives in Rome for the first time . In the new elections in 2008 , this seat was lost again. For the regional election in the same year, PATT again ran as part of the center-left coalition led by Dellai and came up with 8.5% and still three seats.
In 2012 Franco Panizza replaced Ugo Rossi as party secretary. In the national parliamentary elections in 2013 , the PATT allied itself again with the South Tyrolean People's Party and the PD and was able to send a senator (Franco Panizza) and a member of parliament ( Mauro Ottobre ). In the 2013 regional elections, the PATT made strong gains: its share of the vote doubled to 17.5%, with eight seats it has since been the second strongest force in the state parliament. As the top candidate of the center-left coalition (PD, PATT, UpT , Greens and others), Ugo Rossi was elected governor with 58.1%.
For the 2014 European elections , the PATT supported the candidacy of its South Tyrolean "sister party" SVP. In 2016, the PATT - like the SVP before it - was admitted to the European People's Party with observer status . For the Italian parliamentary elections in 2018 , she ran again in association with the SVP and the center-left coalition. Emanuela Rossini was elected to the House of Representatives, but the PATT lost its seat in the Senate.
Provincial governors
The PATT provided the following governors of Trentino :
- Carlo Andreotti (1994–1999, 2002–2004 also President of the Trentino-South Tyrol region )
- Ugo Rossi (2013-2018)
Content profile
In its party program, the PATT invokes Catholic social teaching and the “traditional Christian worldview of the people of Trentino” as well as the values of freedom, equality and solidarity, and not only in relation to individuals, but also to natural social structures such as families and the Trentino people Population. The party's particular focus is on federalism and self-determination, and here primarily on maintaining and promoting the autonomy of Trentino. In terms of European policy, the party advocates a Europe of the regions .
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parties & Partners: Italy European People's Party (epp.eu), accessed on September 30, 2018.
- ↑ Domenico Fedel: Storia dell'ASAR (Associazione Studi Autonomistici Regionali) 1945–1948 e delle radici storiche dell'Autonomia. Pezzini, 1980, p. 202.