Donato Seppi

{{Short description|Italian politician}}

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Donato Seppi (born in Bolzano in 1953) is an Italian politician, who has founded the local party Unitalia.

Life

Donato Seppi was the owner of a small company engaged in the construction industry, and a former Alpini officer. He was elected in 1995 for the National Alliance in the Bolzano city council.
In 1996, Seppi founded with several like-minded persons the party Unitalia, whose current chairman he is. In 1998 he got elected into the Landtag of South Tyrol and became thereby also a member of the regional council of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol.
Since January 2008 the party was the provincial section of The Right in South Tyrol,[http://www.consiglio-bz.org/press-fraktionen/frktn_news_i.asp?art=201434 Consiglio della Provincia autonoma di Bolzano | Comunicati stampa dei gruppi consiliari]{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} but left that party as soon as in November, when Seppi decided to join the Movement for Italy (Movimento per l'Italia/MpI), a split from "The Right" led by Daniela Santanchè and since then Unitalia became the provincial section of the MpI.[http://www.mpli.it/wp Movimento per l'Italia] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111231214830/http://www.mpli.it/wp |date=December 31, 2011 }}
In the 2008 provincial election the party won 1.9% of the votes and Seppi was re-elected to the Landtag. However, in the 2013 provincial election Seppi and his party failed to gain a seat with only 1.7% of the votes.{{Cite web | url=http://elezioni.provincia.bz.it/dlistvt_ld_vg.htm | title=Wahlergebnisse Südtirol insgesamt | publisher=Website of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol with the outcomes of the elections 2013 | accessdate=2013-10-31 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102211328/http://elezioni.provincia.bz.it/dlistvt_ld_vg.htm | archive-date=2013-11-02 | url-status=dead }}

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