Movement for Autonomy

Movement for Autonomy

Movimento per l'Autonomia
Movement for Autonomy Movimento per l'Autonomia
Leader	Raffaele Lombardo
Secretary	Roberto Di Mauro
Founded	30 April 2005
Split from	Union of Christian and Centre Democrats
Headquarters	Via dell'Oca 27, Rome
Ideology	Regionalism; Autonomism; Christian democracy
Political position	Centre
National affiliation	Centre-right (2008–10); New Pole for Italy (2010–12); Centre-right (2013); Liberal Popular Alliance (2015–17); Centre-right (since 2017)
European Parliament group	EPP–ED (2005–09)
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 400
Senate	0 / 200
European Parliament	0 / 73
Sicilian Regional Assembly	4 / 70
Website
	www.mpa-italia.it
	Politics of Italy; Political parties; Elections;

The Movement for Autonomy (Italian: Movimento per l'Autonomia, MpA) is a regionalist^[1]^[4] and Christian-democratic^[1] political party in Italy, based in Sicily. The MpA, whose founder and leader is Raffaele Lombardo, advocates for greater economic development, autonomy and legislative powers for Sicily and the other regions of southern Italy.^[4]^[5]

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