Union Valdôtaine
| Union Valdôtaine | |
| Party executive | Ego Perron (Presidente / President) |
| founding | September 13, 1945 |
| coalition | Stella Alpina , Fédération Autonomiste |
| ideology | autonomist |
| International connections | no |
| European party | no |
| EP Group | no |
| MPs | 0 |
| Senators | 1 |
| MEPs | 0 |
| Headquarters |
 29, avenue des maquisards 11100 Aosta |
| Party newspaper | Le Peuple valdôtain |
| Website | www.unionvaldotaine.org |
The Union Valdôtaine (French for unification of the Aosta Valley ) is a regional party in Italy .
She governs the Aosta Valley region and is currently represented by a Senator in the Italian Parliament.
At the European level, the party was affiliated with the European Free Alliance , but was excluded from it in 2007.
Goal setting
Art. 1 of the party statutes
L'Union Valdôtaine, Mouvement politique qui se rattache aux principes du fédéralisme global, a comme finalité d'assurer l'épanouissement du caractère ethnique et linguistique du peuple valdôtain; d'en servir les intérêts culturels, politiques, sociaux et économiques; de favoriser la coopération entre les communautés ethniques.
The Union Valdotaine, a political movement based on the principles of global federalism, aims to ensure the development of the ethnic and linguistic characteristics of the people of the Aosta Valley; to serve its cultural, political, social and economic interests; to encourage cooperation between ethnic communities.
Emergence
The party came into being on September 13, 1945, the day after the Italian government under Ferruccio Parri had passed two decrees that granted the Aosta Valley its first rights of autonomy. The Union saw itself as a collective movement of autonomist politicians who invoked the political ideals of the slain anti-fascist Emile Chanoux. Specifically, the aim was to expand the still very modest autonomy and secure it internationally.
On October 19, the party was admitted by the Allied occupiers.
The provisional leadership committee comprised Albert Deffeyes, Lino Binel, Paul-Alphonse Farinet, Ernest Page, Victor Rosset, Major Joconde Stévenin, Robert Berton, Amédée Berthod, Félix Ollietti, Severino Caveri, Maria Ida Viglino, Flavien Arbaney and Aimé Berthet. Severino Caveri was appointed first chairman and Albert Deffeyes his deputy.
In 1946, the party organized large demonstrations in Pont-Saint-Martin, Morgex and Aosta to underpin the drive for autonomy.
The years from 1949 to 1966
In the first regional elections in 1949, the Union Valdotaine joined the Democrazia Cristiana . The joint list reached 43.6%, received 28 out of 35 seats due to the majority vote. Severino Caveri was elected President of the Regional Government by the Regional Council. The alliance failed, however, and in the subsequent elections in 1954 the union could only claim one seat on the regional council.
After that, the Union Valdotaine increasingly moved to the left-wing party spectrum and was able to win both the Senate and the Chamber of the small region in the parliamentary elections in 1958. In the regional elections one year later, the coalition of Union Valdôtaine, Partito Socialista Italiano and Partito Comunista Italiano (so-called Lista del leone , English list of lions) won the majority in the regional council, Oreste Marcoz was the new president of the region.
In the Italian parliamentary elections on April 18, 1963, both seats were again captured by the UV. In the regional elections in October of the same year, the party was able to unite 20.4% and gained 7 seats due to the new proportional representation. Séverin Caveri was again President of the Government.
In 1966 the coalition collapsed when the socialists switched sides and formed an alliance with the Democrazia Cristiana.
Crisis and Secession
Then the Union Valdôtaine plunged into a deep crisis. First the conservative wing split off and founded the Rassemblement Valdôtain (RV, meeting of the Aosta Valley), which in the meantime called itself Mouvement Autonomiste Valdôtain and forged a coalition with the Italian Christian Democrats in the regional council. In 1973 the social democratic wing left the Union to found the Union Valdôtaine Progressiste (UVP). In the 1973 regional elections, the UV then achieved a moderate 11.5%.
Even the Democrazia Cristiana was overwhelmed by the wave of division. The Democratici Popolari (DP) emerged from it and received 22.4% of the vote in 1973.
During these turbulent times, the Union managed to appoint the mayor of Aosta for the first time in 1970 . Oreste Marcoz had to give up after only one year.
The regaining of power
The Union Valdôtaine was able to regain the chairmanship of the regional government in 1974 with Mario Andrione, in which it joined forces with its split-off sister parties and was tolerated by DC and PSI. In the 1978 regional elections, the re-strengthened party achieved 24.7%, and 5 years later it grew to 27.1%.
After Mario Andrione had to resign due to the casino affair in 1984, Augusto Rollandin took over the government, which was supported by UV, DC , DP, UVP and PRI . In the regional elections in 1988, the Union then came to 34.2%, Rollandin continued to rule with a coalition still expanded to include the socialists.
The 1988–1993 legislative period was particularly turbulent. In 1990 the UV was ousted from the government and the Christian Democrat Giovanni Bondaz was the new president, also with the participation of the Autonomistes Démocrates Progressistes, the joint list of DP and RV.
In the parliamentary elections in 1992, both Union candidates, Luciano Caveri and Cesare Dujany, were able to prevail against the cartel of the ruling parties in the region. This led to a new government crisis, whereupon the UV came back into government responsibility: Ilario Lanivi, from the short-lived Autonomisti Indipendenti (AI) party, became the new regional president . In 1993 the Union Valdôtaine captured 37.3% of the vote, 13 regional council seats and with Dino Viérin the presidency. In the 1998 elections it increased its votes and with 17 seats, it won only one less than an absolute majority.
From 2000 to 2003, the party was able to send a member of the European Parliament for the first and, until now, only time: Luciano Caveri, who, however, was on the Prodis Democratici list.
In the 2003 elections, she finally managed to achieve the absolute for the first time. Carlo Perrin was elected president of the region, two years later he had to relinquish the post to Luciano Caveri. The list of Autonomie Liberté Démocratie , founded by Perrin, was able to take both seats away from the Union in the 2006 parliamentary elections.
today
In the parliamentary elections in 2008, the Union was able to recapture the Senate seat with the Vallée d'Aoste election cartel .
In the regional elections that same year, it lost an absolute majority (44.4%) and, together with the Stella Alpina and the Fédération Autonomiste, forms a government that is once again led by Augusto Rollandin.