Party of Sicilians

{{short description|Italian political party}}

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| name = Party of Sicilians

|native_name = Partito dei Siciliani

|logo = File:Partito dei Siciliani.png

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|leader1_name = Raffaele Lombardo

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|foundation = August 2012

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|ideology = Sicilian regionalism{{cite web|author=Wolfram Nordsieck |url=http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/italy.html |title=Parties and Elections in Europe |publisher=Parties-and-elections.eu |access-date=2015-05-19}}
Autonomism{{cite book|author=ANSA|title=Il libro ANSA 2007. Notizie, immagini, personaggi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nyXWb-TGShYC&pg=PT46|access-date=23 March 2014|year=2007|publisher=Gremese Editore|language=it|isbn=978-88-8440-457-2|page=46}}{{cite book|last=D'Atena|first=Antonio|title=Sesto rapporto sullo stato del regionalismo in Italia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTmJpJUMYXgC&pg=PA54|access-date=23 March 2014|year=2011|publisher=Giuffrè Editore|isbn=978-88-14-17198-7|page=54|language=it}}
{{nowrap|Christian democracy}}

|position = Centre-right{{cite book|author=Giancarlo Minaldi|chapter=La via del declino di un modello di rappresentanza: il ceto politico meridionale nei governo della transizione italiana|editor1=Antonio La Spina|editor2=Claudio Riolo|title=Il Mezzogiorno nel sistema politico italiano: classi dirigenti, criminalità organizzata, politiche pubbliche|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j5AHiS4ebIMC&pg=PA62|access-date=23 March 2014|year=2012|publisher=FrancoAngeli|language=it|isbn=978-88-204-1029-2|page=62}}{{cite book|last1=Cotta|first1=Maurizio|last2=Verzichelli|first2=Luca|title=Il Sistema Politico Italiano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f72NAAAAMAAJ|access-date=23 March 2014|year=2008|publisher=Il Mulino|language=it|isbn=978-88-15-12221-6}}

|national = Movement for Autonomies

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|seats1_title = Sicilian Regional Assembly

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|country = Italy

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The Party of Sicilians ({{langx|it|Partito dei Siciliani}}, PdS) was a regionalist and Christian-democratic political party in Sicily. It was the Sicilian regional section of the Movement for Autonomy (MpA).

History

In August 2012 it was announced that the Sicilian section of the MpA would be renamed Party of Sicilians (PdS).[http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/palermo/notizie/politica/2012/3-settembre-2012/partito-siciliani-ora-ha-anche-simbolo-pistorio-presenta-catania-2111672079220.shtml Il Partito dei siciliani ora ha anche il simbolo: Pistorio lo presenta a Catania – Corriere del Mezzogiorno]{{cite web |url=http://www.ilgiornalediragusa.it/notizie/politica/43019-elezioni-regionali-nasce-il-partito-dei-siciliani-sosterra-micciche-presidente.html |title=Elezioni regionali, nasce il Partitodei Siciliani, sosterrà Miccichè Presidente - Il Giornale di Ragusa |access-date=2012-09-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111201252/http://www.ilgiornalediragusa.it/notizie/politica/43019-elezioni-regionali-nasce-il-partito-dei-siciliani-sosterra-micciche-presidente.html |archive-date=2013-01-11 }} Contextually, Raffaele Lombardo, MpA leader and incumbent President of Sicily, chose not to run again in the 2012 Sicilian regional election. The newly formed PdS supported Gianfranco Micciché for President, as part of a "Sicilianist" coalition comprising Micciché's Great South (GS), the Sicilian People's Movement (MPS) and the regional section of Future and Freedom (FLI).[http://affaritaliani.libero.it/politica/sicilia280812.html Sicilia/ Micciché molla Musumeci – Affaritaliani.it] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830195154/http://affaritaliani.libero.it/politica/sicilia280812.html |date=2012-08-30 }} Micciché won 15.4% of the vote, while the PdS obtained 9.5% and ten regional deputies.[http://www.repubblica.it/static/speciale/2012/elezioni/regionali/sicilia.html#risultati Sicilia – Elezioni Regionali 28 ottobre 2012 – la Repubblica.it]

In 2017 Angelo Attaguile, the only member of PdS in the Chamber of Deputies, led a split from the party and became secretary of Us with Salvini (NcS), sister party of Lega Nord (LN) in southern Italy. Another split occurred in 2015 when Rino Piscitello, PdS secretary since 2013, launched Sicily Nation (SN), which would later merge into the Sicilian National Movement (MNS).

In the 2017 regional election the PdS/MpA formed teamed up with Francesco Saverio Romano's Cantiere Popolare (CP) under the banner of "Populars and Autonomists".{{Cite web|url=http://palermo.repubblica.it/politica/2017/09/25/news/elezioni_regionali_la_sfida_del_cartello_degli_autonomisti_arriviamo_alla_doppia_cifra_-176452131|title = Elezioni regionali, il cartello degli autonomisti Mpa-Cantiere popolare: "Arriviamo alla doppia cifra"|date = 25 September 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://palermo.blogsicilia.it/da-lagalla-a-lombardo-passando-per-saverio-romano-ecco-il-simbolo-di-popolari-e-autonomisti/410595|title = Da Lagalla a Lombardo passando per Saverio Romano, ecco il simbolo di 'Popolari e autonomisti'|date = 22 September 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://catania.meridionews.it/articolo/58846/regionali-asse-tra-lombardo-romano-e-lagalla-i-nomi-dei-catanesi-e-lincognita-del-nipote-di|title = Regionali: Asse tra Lombardo, Romano e Lagalla. I nomi dei catanesi e l'incognita del "nipote di"| date=20 September 2017 }} The list won 7.1% of the vote, obtained six regional deputies and entered the regional government led by Nello Musumeci, the newly elected President of Sicily.{{Cite web|url=http://gds.it/2017/11/29/regione-ecco-la-nuova-giunta-nomi-e-foto_761900|title=Regione, ecco la nuova giunta - Nomi e Foto|date=29 November 2017 }}

After that, the PdS was absorbed into the MpA, which was re-organised in Sicily alone.

Electoral results

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2012

| 182,737 (5th)

| 9.5

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| {{center|–}}

| Giovanni Pistorio

2017

| 136,520 (4th){{efn|In a joint list with Cantiere Popolare.}}

| 7.1

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| {{center|{{decrease}} 4}}

| Giuseppe Maria Reina

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