National Alliance Alleanza Nazionale | |
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Abbreviation | AN |
Leader |
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Founded |
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Dissolved | 22 March 2009 |
Preceded by | Italian Social Movement[1] |
Merged into | The People of Freedom |
Newspaper | Secolo d'Italia |
Student wing | Student Action |
Youth wing | Youth Action |
Membership (2004) | 250,000[2] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Right-wing[1] to far-right[6] |
National affiliation |
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European affiliation | Alliance for Europe of the Nations |
European Parliament group | Union for Europe of the Nations |
National Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Nazionale, AN) was a national conservative political party in Italy.[7][8][9] It was the successor of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by former followers of Benito Mussolini that had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideology, a move known as post-fascismo , during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolving into the new party in 1995.[10][11]
Gianfranco Fini was the leader of AN from its foundation through 2008, after being elected President of the Chamber of Deputies. Fini was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed the merger of the party with Forza Italia (FI) into The People of Freedom (PdL) in 2009.[12] A group of former AN members, led by La Russa, left PdL in 2012 to launch the Brothers of Italy (FdI), while others remained in the PdL and were among the founding members of the relaunched Forza Italia (FI) in 2013.
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Yet this is not to say that the fascist heritage in the new 'post-fascist' AN faded altogether. At least at the beginning, Fini had a double standard of communication, one for inside the party, stressing continuity with fascism, one for outside the party, stressing change.
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