Pact for Autonomy

{{Infobox political party

| name = Pact for Autonomy

| native_name = Patto per l'Autonomia

| country = Italy

| logo = 150px

| leader = Sergio Cecotti

| leader1_title = Secretary

| leader1_name = Massimo Moretuzzo

| leader2_title = President

| leader2_name = Elisabetta Basso

| foundation = 9 October 2015

| dissolution =

| headquarters = Via A. Manzoni, 21
33032 Bertiolo

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| ideology = Regionalism
Social liberalism
Green politics

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| national = Autonomies and Environment Pact

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| european = {{nowrap|European Free Alliance}}

| seats1_title = Chamber of Deputies

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| seats2_title = Senate

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| seats3_title = European Parliament

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| seats4_title = Regional Council of Friuli-Venezia Giulia

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The Pact for Autonomy ({{langx|it|Patto per l'Autonomia}}, {{langx|fur|Pat pe Autonomie}}, {{langx|sl|Pakt za Avtonomijo}}, {{langx|de|Pakt für die Autonomie}}, PpA) is a regionalist and social-liberal political party in Friuli-Venezia Giulia that aims to defend the regional autonomy and protect all linguistic minorities present in the region (Friulian, German and Slovene).{{cite web|url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/fvg.html|title=Friuli-Venezia Guilia/Italy|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|date=2018|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|access-date=2020-02-18|archive-date=2020-12-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201230010915/http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/fvg.html|url-status=dead}} Its leaders have been Sergio Cecotti and Massimo Moretuzzo.

The party is a member of the European Free Alliance and of the Autonomies and Environment Pact.

History

The PpA was founded as an association in 2015 and became a full-fledged party in 2017.{{cite web | url=http://www.udinetoday.it/politica/elezioni/patto-per-autonomia-presentazione-udine-30-dicembre-2017.html | title=Autonomisti in campo: In Comune c'è l'idea Valcic, per Trieste si sogna Cecotti }} Its founders were local administrators of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, including Massimo Moretuzzo (mayor of Mereto di Tomba) and Markus Maurmair (mayor of Valvasone Arzene), who were soon elected as the party's secretary and president, respectively. A leading role was played also by Sergio Cecotti and Roberto Visentin,{{cite web | url=https://autonomieeambiente.eu/news/40-sintesi-dei-lavori-della-prima-sessione-della-ii-assemblea-2021?highlight=WyJ2aXNlbnRpbiJd | title=Sintesi dei lavori della prima sessione della II Assemblea 2021 }}{{cite web | url=https://autonomieeambiente.eu/news/264-seminario-politico-elettorale-europee-2024-scaletta-interventi?highlight=WyJ2aXNlbnRpbiJd | title=Seminario politico-elettorale Europee 2024 - Scaletta interventi e riepilogo informazioni }} both founding members of Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia, the former president of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in 1995–1996 and mayor of Udine in 1998–2008.

In the 2018 regional election, the PpA, with Cecotti as candidate for president, obtained 4.1% of the vote and two seats in the Regional Council.

In 2020, the PpA was instrumental in the formation of the Autonomies and Environment Pact, an alliance of alike regionalist parties, whose founding president was PpA's Roberto Visentin.{{cite web | url=https://autonomieeambiente.eu/news/30-statuto-e-funzionamento-di-aea-2020 | title=Statuto e funzionamento di AEA }}{{cite web | url=https://autonomieeambiente.eu/news/22-autonomie-e-ambiente-all-assemblea-ale-efa | title=Autonomie e Ambiente all'Assemblea ALE-EFA }}{{cite web | url=https://friulisera.it/patto-per-lautonomia-a-strasburgo-per-il-congresso-di-efa-ale-principale-rete-europea-delle-forze-autonomiste | title=Patto per l'Autonomia a Strasburgo per il Congresso di EFA/ALE, principale rete europea delle forze autonomiste. – Friulisera }} Other members include the Valdostan Alliance and the Slovene Union.{{cite web | url=https://autonomieeambiente.eu/news/159-i-lavori-della-iii-assemblea-generale-di-aea | title=I lavori della III assemblea generale di AEA }}

In the 2023 regional election, Moretuzzo was the joint candidate of the autonomist / centre-left coalition: he was defeated by incumbent president Massimiliano Fedriga of Lega FVG, but the PpA won 6.3% of the vote and had four councillors elected, plus Moretuzzo.

Leadership

Secretary: Massimo Moretuzzo (2015–present)
President: Markus Maurmair (2015–2022), Elisabetta Basso (2022–present)

Electoral history

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2018 \| 17,350 (7th) \| 4.1 \| {{Composition bar\|2\|49\|hex={{party color\|Pact for Autonomy}}}} \| {{center\|–}} \| {{center\|Sergio Cecotti}}
2023 \| 24,838 (6th) \| 6.3 \| {{Composition bar\|5\|48\|hex={{party color\|Pact for Autonomy}}}} \| {{center\|{{increase}}3}} \| {{center\|Massimo Moretuzzo}}

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2018

| 17,350 (7th)

| 4.1

| {{Composition bar|2|49|hex={{party color|Pact for Autonomy}}}}