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Listed below are regional parties. Parties that are active in all or most of Italy are listed on a separate page.
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In addition to the parties that are active in all or most of Italy, there are
a large number of parties only active in one or sometimes a few regions. Not
surprisingly, this is particularly the case in the Regions with Special Statute
(Aosta Valley, Trentino-Alto Adige, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Sardinia, Sicily)
containing considerable ethnic minorities.
One can differentiate between:
- outright separatist parties (e.g. STF, IRS)
-
parties wanting more autonomy for their region or province (e.g. MAT)
-
parties comfortable with the autonomy rights (e.g. SVP, UV)
-
presidential
lists organized temporarily for the support of a regional presidential candidate
- ethnic minority parties (e.g. Slovenska Skupnost)
- general
catch-all parties (usually Christian-democratic) that are only regionally active
by chance (e.g. PID, Popolari Uniti)
- parties wanting more rights for the
Northern (e.g. Lega Nord) or the Southern (e.g. MPA, Grande Sud) part of Italy
- municipal civic lists (liste civiche)
Not all of these are
using flags, though. In particular the municipal lists only sometimes use flags,
as do the presidential lists. In other cases, even rather persistent regional
parties (e.g. in Aosta Valley or South Tyrol) obviously do not use flags or only
rarely so.
Of course, local/regional or ethnic symbols might be adopted
by the respective regional parties, usually in a slightly modified way. So for
example, either the moor's heads or the tree of Arborea is used by regionalists
and separatists in Sardinia.
M. Schmöger, 7 May 2013
Since 1995, for most of the Italian regions the so-called "Legge Tatarella"
defines the modalities of the regional elections; the exceptions are the Aosta
Valley and Trentino-Südtirol. Over the years, however, several of the regions
have modified the original law.
So the elections are as follows:
- the
election of the regional council and of the regional president are linked
-
all parties/lists are linked to a presidential candidate
- while 80% of the
council seats are allocated on a proportional basis, 20% of the seats are
allocated on a majoritarian basis; and for this majoritarian part there is a
"presidential list".
These presidential lists usually bear the name of
the presidential candidate in their name (something like "Lista Renata Polverini");
in other cases the name just recalls the name of the region (something like
"(Per la Campania"). As usual and necessary, they have a particular symbol for
the ballot; this might be rather simple or more elaborate.
In addition to
this presidential list for the majoritarian part of the election, there are also
sometimes additional "civic lists" (liste civiche) in support of the
presidential candidate, more or less independent of the other supporting
parties. These have their own symbol as well.
In both cases, although
having their own symbols, it's far from clear if the respective lists (for
simplicity, I call both of them presidential lists) have flags. In several
cases, I have found flags. In others, the list itself wrote me that they do not
have flags. In most of the cases, however, I am just not sure, and can only
state that I have not found any evidence for a flag. One of the reasons for not
using a flag probably is the short lifespan of the presidential lists: they are
organized for a couple of months only, basically for the electoral campaign.
Four of examples of these presidential lists, from Lazio, Lombardia and
Calabria are presented.
M. Schmöger, 21 May 2103
