Protagonist Right (Destra Protagonista) was a national-conservative faction within National Alliance, a political party in Italy.
National conservatism is a variant of conservatism common in Europe and Asia that concentrates on upholding national and cultural identity.
National Alliance was a conservative political party in Italy.
The faction was founded in July 1999 by the followers of Giuseppe Tatarella, one of the party's charismatic leader who had died in February of that year. The faction was very close to Silvio Berlusconi, leader of Forza Italia and the People of Freedom/House of Freedoms coalition, and it was somewhat critical to Gianfranco Fini, leader of National Alliance, instead. Its main members included Ignazio La Russa, Maurizio Gasparri, Mario Landolfi, Salvatore Tatarella and Italo Bocchino. [1] [2]
Giuseppe Tatarella, better known as Pinuccio Tatarella, was an Italian politician who served as deputy prime minister in the first cabinet of Silvio Berlusconi from 1994 to 1995.
Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. He serves as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since July 2019.
Forza Italia was a centre-right political party in Italy with liberal-conservative, Christian-democratic, liberal, social-democratic and populist tendencies. Its leader was Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy.
Protagonist Right was the party's largest faction and in the 2002 congress had more than 40% of the delegates. [3]
Since National Alliance's merger into The People of Freedom, most members of the faction conclusively distanced from Fini and became some of the staunchest supporters of Berlusconi. Only a minority, led by Bocchino and Tatarella, joined Generation Italy and finally followed Fini out of the party into Future and Freedom. Within The People of Freedom, Gasparri launched Protagonist Italy as a successor of the old faction, while La Russa started to strengthen its power base especially in the North through Our Right. [4] [5] [6] In 2012 La Russa left The People of Freedom to form Brothers of Italy, a minor right-wing ally of The People of Freedom from the outside.
The People of Freedom was a centre-right political party in Italy.
Generation Italy was a faction within Future and Freedom (FLI), a political party in Italy, and earlier The People of Freedom (PdL).
Future and Freedom, whose full name was Future and Freedom for Italy, was a political party in Italy, comprising both liberal and national elements.
