Partito Sardo d'Azione

Partito Sardo d'Azione
Party executive	Christian Solinas (Segretario)
founding	April 17, 1921
ideology	separatist
European party	European Free Alliance (suspended)
MPs	0/630
Senators	0/315
MEPs	0/76
Website	www.psdaz.net

The Partito Sardo d'Azione ( PSd'Az ; Sardinian : Partitu Sardu ; Sardinian Action Party or Sardinian Party ) is a regionalist and separatist party in Italy's autonomous region of Sardinia . Their self-declared goal is the "sovereignty of the Sardinian people " and the independence of the "Sardinian nation".

history

The party was founded after the First World War by Emilio Lussu , Camillo Bellieni and other veterans of the Sassari Infantry Brigade . The party was inactive during the fascist era. Some of its members, including Lussu, were active in the anti-fascist resistance movement Giustizia e Libertà .

After the Second World War , the PSd'Az was represented by two members of the Italian constituent assembly elected in 1946 . At that time, three quarters of the party members were openly separatist , which is why the founder Lussu turned away from the party and founded a Partito Socialista Sardo d'Azione (Sardinian Socialist Action Party) in 1948 , which was immediately merged into the Partito Socialista Italiano . From 1948 to 1953 the PSd'Az was represented with one seat each in the Italian House of Representatives and Senate, then it lost its representation at the national level. In the regional elections, too, the PSd'Az's share of the vote fell from 10.4% in 1949 to 3.3% in 1979. During this time, the party broke away from the goal of complete independence for Sardinia and instead committed itself to its 1968 statute to a "state autonomy" of Sardinia, whereby Italy should be converted into a Federal Republic.

In the 1980s, however, it regained popularity under the leadership of Carlo Sanna . Since her XX. At the congress in 1981, the party is aiming for the independence of Sardinia again instead of state autonomy. From 1983 to 1994 she was again represented in the Italian parliament (1-2 members, one senator). In the regional election in 1984 it was the third strongest force in Sardinia with 13.8% of the vote. With Mario Melis , the PSd'Az even provided the regional president of Sardinia from 1984 to 1989, he ruled in a coalition with communists , socialists and social democrats . For the European elections in 1984 and 1989 , she stood as part of the Federalismo - Europa dei Popoli list , to which several regional and autonomist parties (including the Union Valdôtaine , PPTT and, in 1989, the Union for South Tyrol ) had come together. From 1984 to 1994 it was represented by a member of the European Parliament through this group , who sat in the rainbow faction made up of green and regional parties .

Christian Solinas

In the 1990s, the party fell back to around 5% of the vote. In the 2005 provincial elections, the PSd'Az, allied with the center-left parties , won 5.5 percent of the vote, doing particularly well in the Nuoro and Oristano Province . For the regional election in 2009, however, the party allied itself with the center-right bloc led by Silvio Berlusconi's party Il Popolo della Libertà (PdL), received 6.8% of the vote and was consequently involved in the government of Regional President Ugo Cappellacci (PdL) . The alliance with the center-right parties was maintained by the PSd'Az in 2014, but when it was defeated by the center-left bloc, with the PSd'Az falling to 4.7%.

Christian Solinas took over the party leadership in 2015. On the occasion of the Italian parliamentary elections in 2018 , the PSd'Az formed an alliance with the Lega Nord , as a result of which Solinas was elected to the Italian Senate, where he sat in the Lega faction. The European Free Alliance , a Europe-wide association of regionalist, autonomist and separatist parties, of which the PSd'Az is a founding member, suspended the party because of this alliance with the xenophobic Lega. For the Sardinian regional elections in 2019, Solinas ran as the top candidate of the center-right alliance (Lega, PSd'Az, Forza Italia , Riformatori Sardi , Fratelli d'Italia , UdC ). Solinas was elected regional president with 47.8% of the vote, in the election of the regional council his party got 9.9% of the vote and 8 of the 60 seats.

Web links

• Party website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Recapitulative political statement on the main issues discussed in the General Assembly 2018. European Free Alliance, 12. – 14. April 2018.
2. ↑ "Con la Lega Psd'Az snaturato". In: La Nuova Sardegna , April 28, 2018.