Autonomist Federation

Autonomist Federation Fédération Autonomiste
Historical leaders	Cristina Vasini Leonardo La Torre Giorgio Lavoyer
Founded	1998
Dissolved	2014
Merger of	ADP, APA
Headquarters	50, rue de Chambéry 11100 Aosta/Aoste
Ideology	Regionalism Centrism Christian democracy Social liberalism Social democracy
Political position	Centre to centre-left
European affiliation	none
International affiliation	none
European Parliament group	no MEPs
Regional coalition	Aosta Valley coalition
Website
http://www.federationautonomiste.org/
Politics of Aosta Valley Political parties Elections

The Autonomist Federation (French: Fédération Autonomiste, FA) was a regionalist,^[1] centrist,^[1] social-liberal and social-democratic Italian political party active in Aosta Valley. Lately the party's ideology had tilted toward Christian democracy. The party's last leader was Giorgio Lavoyer, a long-time regional councillor and former regional minister.

History

The party was founded in 1998 by the merger of the Progressive Democratic Autonomists, which included several splinters of the Italian Republican Party, and the Autonomist People's Alliance, basically formed by former members of the Italian Socialist Party. In the 1998 regional election the party list, which included also some members of the Christian Democratic Centre and some of the United Christian Democrats, obtained 9.7% of the vote and four regional councillors.^[2]

In the 2001 FA was merged with the Autonomists into Edelweiss (SA), but, following the 2003 regional election (in which SA won 19.8% of the vote), the party re-gained its autonomy in 2004.^[3]

In the 2008 regional election the party, which was part of the winning regionalist coalition, obtained 6.2% of the vote and two regional councillors (out of 35).^[4] Giorgio Lavoyer was appointed to the regional government.

In 2009 a group of Socialists, members of the Socialist Party at the national level were expelled from FA.^[5] In 2013 a larger group of Socialists, led by Leonardo La Torre, a former party secretary, left^[6] and joined the Valdostan Union.^[7][8]

In the 2013 regional election FA ran a joint list with the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats.^[9][10] The alliance did not prove successful as FA obtained a mere 2.2% of the vote and was excluded from the Regional Council, after 15 years of continuous presence.^[11][12] As a result, Lavoyer resigned from party leader.^[13][14] In 2014 the party was merged into a short-lived oufit named "Create VdA",^{[15][16][17][18]} which was finally merged into UV,^[19] of which La Torre was still a regional councillor.

Leadership

• Secretary: unknown (1998–2001), Cristina Vasini (2003–2008), Leonardo La Torre (2008–2012),^[20][21] Giorgio Lavoyer (2012–2013)^[22]
• President: unknown (1998–2001), Guglielmo Piccolo (2003–2008), Cristina Vasini (2008–2014)

References

External links

• Official website

Political parties in the Aosta Valley
Parties with seats in the Council of the Valley	Valdostan Union (11) Progressive Valdostan Union (7) Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology (5) Edelweiss (5) Democratic Party (3) For Our Valley (2) Five Star Movement (2)
Politics of Aosta Valley List of political parties in Aosta Valley