Fatherland and Constitution

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Fatherland and Constitution
Patria e Costituzione
Leader Stefano Fassina
Founded8 September 2018 (2018-09-08)
Split from Italian Left
Ideology
Souverainism [1] [2]
Euroscepticism [3] [4]
Political position Left-wing
National affiliation Free and Equal
Colors  Red
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate of the Republic
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European Parliament
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Website
patriaecostituzione.it

Fatherland and Constitution (Italian : Patria e Costituzione, PeC) is a left-wing souverainist political party in Italy. It was founded in September 2018 by Stefano Fassina, [5] [6] a member of the Chamber of Deputies for Free and Equal.

Fassina is an Italian economist and was a former member of left-wing, pro-Europeanist Democratic Party (PD). He later assumed more critical views on the European Union (UE), formed Future to the Left (FaS) and was a founding member of Italian Left (SI) in 2015. Fassina has proposed a "controlled disintegration of the Eurozone". [7]

In September 2019, PeC supported the formation of the second government of Giuseppe Conte, composed by the Five Star Movement, PD and LeU. [8]

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