New Sicily (Italian: Nuova Sicilia, NS) was a regionalist social-democratic political party based in Sicily. Its founder and leader was Bartolo Pellegrino.
New Sicily Nuova Sicilia | |
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Leader | Bartolo Pellegrino |
Founded | 20 April 2001 |
Dissolved | 13 February 2008 |
Ideology | Autonomism Federalism |
It was composed mainly by former members of the regional section of the Italian Socialist Party and the Sicilian Action Party.[1]
The party was affiliated to the House of Freedoms, the centre-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi. It participated in the national general election, obtaining 33,437 votes, and the Sicilian regional election of 2006, in a joint ticket with the Movement for Autonomy, obtaining 308,219 (12.5% of regional votes) and ten seats in the Sicilian Regional Assembly.
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