The
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (; , PATT) is a
regionalist Christian-democratic Italian political party based in
Trentino.
History
The party was founded in 1948 as
Trentino Tyrolean People's Party (PPTT). In 1982 a split between the conservative wing, led by
Franco Tretter, and the centrist wing of the party, led by longstanding leader
Enrico Pruner, occurred. The first group retained the name of the party but then changed it to
Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Union (UATT), while second one took the name of
Integral Autonomy. In 1988 the two groups were re-united and formed the PATT.
Golden age
In the
1993 provincial election the party had its best result ever (20.2%), thanks to the crisis of
Christian Democracy (DC), and its leader
Carlo Andreotti was President of the
Province of Trento for the successive five years, at the head of a coalition composed of the PATT and the
Italian People's Party, one of the successors of DC, and some minor parties.
In
1998 the party suffered a reatret to 12.4%, due to the big result of the newly-formed
Daisy Civic List (22.2%), with which it entered in coalition. Despite this the PATT formed an alliance with the
House of Freedoms and especially
Lega Nord Trentino for the
2001 general election, but
Giacomo Bezzi was narrowly defeated in the single-seat-constituency of
Lavis.
In the
2003 provincial......
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