National Movement for Sovereignty

National Movement for Sovereignty
Movimento Nazionale per la Sovranità
Secretary Gianni Alemanno
President Roberto Menia
Founded 18 February 2017
Merger of National Action
The Right
Headquarters Via Giovanni Paisiello 40, Rome, Italy
Ideology National conservatism
Souverainism
Euroscepticism
Political position Right-wing
Colours      Dark blue
Chamber of Deputies
0 / 630
Senate
1 / 315
(Into the League)
European Parliament
0 / 73
Regional
Councils
1 / 897
Website
www.movimento-nazionale.it

The National Movement for Sovereignty (Italian: Movimento Nazionale per la Sovranità, MNS) is a national-conservative political party in Italy, founded on 18 February 2017, with the merger of National Action and The Right.[1] Its founders were Gianni Alemanno and Francesco Storace, both former ministers and former leaders of the two founding parties, respectively.

The MNS has his powerbase in Lazio, the region of Rome and a traditional stronghold of Italian right-wing parties. Alemanno is a former mayor of Rome (2008–2013), Storace a former President of Lazio (2000–2005).

After a rift between Alemanno and Storace, the former has been the sole leader of the party.

History

The roots of the MNS can be traced in the tradition of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), the party of the post-fascist right, and its successor, National Alliance (AN), launched in 1993 and established in 1995. Both National Action and The Right are heirs of that tradition. The latter was founded in 2007 by former President of Lazio Francesco Storace, who opposed the merger of National Alliance into The People of Freedom, while National Action was launched in 2015 by former mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno. Both Alemanno and Storace hailed from the Social Right faction of the defunct National Alliance.

During its founding congress in February 2017, the MNS elected Alemanno secretary and Storace president.[2][3][4][5] The party aimed at forming a broad "Sovereignitist Pole" with Lega Nord (LN), Brothers of Italy, Direction Italy, and others.[6][7][8][9] However, Brothers of Italy did not take part to the MNS' founding congress, despite being invited.[10]

In the run-up of the 2018 general election the party endorsed Matteo Salvini and the LN,[11][12] which was restyled as "Lega" in the event. As a result, the MNS had a few candidates in Lega's lists.[13] However, Storace disagreed with Alemanno on them and on which candidate the party should endorse in the regional election in Lazio: the former favoured right-wing independent Sergio Pirozzi, the latter the official centre-right candidate Stefano Parisi.[14][15] When Storace resigned from president, Alemanno tried to mind fences (the role of president remained temporarily vacant),[16] but also led the party to officially support Parisi.[17] Storace denounced that the episode had marked his "definitive imcompatibility with the MNS".[18]

Claudio Barbaro of the MNS was elected senator under the agreement between the party and the LN.[19]

In May Roberto Menia replaced Storace as president of the party.

Founding parties

Party Ideology Leader
National Action National conservatism Gianni Alemanno
The Right National conservatism Francesco Storace

Additionally, a number of associations and local groups joined the MNS.

Leadership

  • Secretary: Gianni Alemanno (2017–present)
  • President: Francesco Storace (2017–2018), Roberto Menia (2018–present)
    • Deputy Secretary: Roberto Menia (2017–2018)
    • Spokesperson: Marco Cerreto (2018–present)
    • Organisational Secretary: Roberto Buonasorte (2017–2018), Felice Costini (2018–present)
  • Coordinator of the National Board: Giuseppe Scopelliti (2017–present)
  • Coordiantor of the National Assembly: TBD
  • President of the College of Guarantee: Livio Proietti (2017–present)
  • Guarantors: Domenico Nania (2017–present), Paolo Agostinacchio (2017–2018), Francesco Bevilacqua (2018–present)

References

  1. ↑ “Movimento nazionale per la sovranità”, gli interventi al congresso
  2. ↑ http://www.rainews.it/dl/rainews/articoli/Storace-presidente-Alemanno-segretario-Movimento-nazionale-sovranita-5d436a2a-621e-4a53-bc1b-843cf9ad0446.html
  3. ↑ http://www.ilgiornale.it/news/politica/alemanno-apre-fdi-lavoriamo-insieme-1366197.html
  4. ↑ http://www.unionesarda.it/articolo/politica_italiana/2017/02/19/nasce_il_movimento_nazionale_per_la_sovranit_storace_e_alemanno_e-1-571259.html
  5. ↑ http://www.ilgiornaleditalia.org/news/politica/885595/Ecco-il-Movimento-Nazionale-per-la.html
  6. ↑ Nasce 'Polo sovranista' per centrodestra alternativo a Renzi
  7. ↑ Storace e Alemanno: "Torniamo insieme per realizzare il Polo Sovranista
  8. ↑ Nasce il nuovo partito della destra unita, Alemanno: "Uniti per la sovranità"
  9. ↑ Destra, Alemanno e Storace insieme per il Polo sovranista: “Puntiamo a 5 milioni di voti”
  10. ↑ http://www.secoloditalia.it/2017/02/la-russa-con-alemanno-e-storace-non-ce-unita-non-e-colpa-nostra/
  11. ↑ http://www.corriere.it/politica/17_dicembre_05/alemanno-gruppo-ex-an-che-migra-la-lega-b4d3be50-d937-11e7-a3a8-44c429ca235a.shtml
  12. ↑ http://www.affaritaliani.it/politica/centrodestra-alemanno-e-storace-salvini-premier-513510.html
  13. ↑ http://www.movimento-nazionale.it/news/candidati-del-movimento-nazionale-per-la-sovranita-2
  14. ↑ http://www.ilmessaggero.it/rieti/rieti_regionali_pirozzi_alemanno_storace-3529621.html
  15. ↑ https://www.ilprimatonazionale.it/politica/sovranisti-per-parisi-alemanno-scarica-pirozzi-e-litiga-con-storace-79482
  16. ↑ http://www.movimento-nazionale.it/news/lettera-ai-militanti-del-mns
  17. ↑ http://www.movimento-nazionale.it/news/regionali-lazio-alemanno-mns-quadri-mns-approvato-a-larga-maggioranza-lappoggio-a-parisi
  18. ↑ http://www.ilgiornaleditalia.org/news/da-roma--dal-lazio/894699/-Alemanno-con-Parisi-segna-mia.html
  19. ↑ http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2018/03/06/news/elezioni_in_campania_eletti_3_parlamentari_con_la_lega-190608221

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