Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party

"PATT" redirects here. For other uses, see Patt (disambiguation).

Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party
Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese
SecretarySimone Marchiori
PresidentFranco Panizza
Founded17 January 1988
Merger ofTrentino Tyrolean Autonomist Union
Integral Autonomy
Preceded byTrentino Tyrolean People's Party
HeadquartersVia Roma, 7
38122 Trento
IdeologyRegionalism
Autonomism
Christian democracy
Political positionCentre
Regional affiliationCentre-left coalition (2002–2018)
Centre-right coalition (since 2023)
European affiliationEuropean People's Party
Colors  Black
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
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European Parliament
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Provincial Council
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Website
www.patt.tn.it

The Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (Italian: Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese, PATT) is a regionalist,[citation needed] autonomist,[1] Christian-democratic[citation needed] and centrist[2] political party in Trentino, Italy. The PATT, heir of the Trentino Tyrolean People's Party, is the unofficial counterpart of the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), active in South Tyrol. The two are members of the European People's Party (EPP) and usually contest general and European Parliament elections together.[3] Simone Marchiori is the party's current secretary, while former senator Franco Panizza serves at its president. The PATT has led the provincial government with Carlo Andreotti in 1994–1999 and Ugo Rossi in 2013–2018, as well as the regional government with Andreotti in 2002–2004 (when the office of president was not rotational) and again with Rossi in 2014–2016.

The party has had a diverse membership and, as a result, frequently experienced internal conflicts and splits. Centrists like Marchiori, Panizza and Rossi supported the centre-left coalition with the Democratic Party and the Union for Trentino in 2002–2018. Andreotti, Franco Tretter, Giacomo Bezzi and, lately, Walter Kaswalder, expelled in 2017, held a more conservative (and traditional) position, that resonated well with the party's grassroots.[4][5] However, the alliance with the centre-left was broken in the run-up to the 2018 provincial election. The party later aligned with the centre-right coalition and especially with the alike autonomist Lega Trentino for the 2023 provincial election; in the process, Rossi switched to the centrist Action party in 2021, while several centre-left figures, notably including Luigi Panizza and Dario Pallaoro, left the party and joined Autonomy House.

  1. ^ Jaro Stacul (2006). "Neo-nationalism or Neo-localism? Integralist Political Engagements in Italy at the Turns of the Millennium". In André Gingrich; Marcus Banks (eds.). Neo-nationalism in Europe and Beyond: Perspectives from Social Anthropology. Berghahn Books. p. 167. ISBN 978-1-84545-190-5.
  2. ^ Davide Vampa (2016). The Regional Politics of Welfare in Italy, Spain and Great Britain. Springer. p. 61. ISBN 978-3-319-39007-9.
  3. ^ "EPP - European People's Party - Parties & Partners". EPP - European People's Party. Retrieved 19 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Kaswalder suona la carica: "torniamo ai valori del passato"". 12 August 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  5. ^ "Rossi-bis e alleati col Patt L'idea agita il centrodestra - Trentino". Retrieved 8 April 2017.