South American Union of Italian Emigrants

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South American Union of Italian Emigrants
Unione Sudamericana Emigrati Italiani
President Eugenio Sangregorio
Founded2006
Headquarters Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ideology Interests of Italians abroad
Liberal conservatism [1]
Political position Centre-right [2]
National affiliation Centre-right coalition (since December 2019)
Chamber of Deputies
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Senate
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Website
www.usei-it.org

The South American Union of Italian Emigrants (Italian : Unione Sudamericana Emigrati Italiani, USEI) is an Italian political party representing Italian minorities in South America, especially Argentina and Brazil.

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Its leader is Eugenio Sangregorio  [ it ], who was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2018 general election.

History

USEI was founded in 2006 by Eugenio Sangregorio  [ it ], a Calabrian-born entrepreneur. [3]

In the 2006 general election the party won 4.7% of the vote in the South American constituency of the Chamber of Deputies. [4] USEI did not participate in the 2008 general election, [5] but continued to be active and improve its network.

In the 2013 general election USEI won 13.3% of the vote in the South American constituency and elected Renata Bueno to the Chamber of Deputies. [6] Bueno was the daughter of Rubens Bueno, [7] a long-time member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies for the Brazilian Socialist Party. [8] [9] After the election, she formed a parliamentary alliance with the alternative Associative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE) within the Mixed Group of the Chamber, that lasted for two and half years. [10]

Despite the fact that USEI's and Sangregorio's political orientation was broadly centre-right, [11] [12] Bueno, due to her family's political upbringing, started to be supportive of the Democratic Party (PD), the country's main centre-left party, and, particularly, its leader Matteo Renzi, [13] who served as Prime Minister from February 2014 to December 2016.

Curiously enough, in November 2015, Bueno joined forces with Identity and Action (IdeA), a centre-right party opposed to Renzi. [14] Subsequently, she formed a sub-group, named after the USEI (and, later, "USEI–IdeA"), within the Mixed Group of the Chamber, along with Aniello Formisano of Italy of Values (IdV), a party traditionally affiliated to the centre-left, and Guglielmo Vaccaro of Unique Italy (IU). [10] [11] [15] Right after its formation, the sub-group was joined also by the other two IdeA deputies, Eugenia Roccella and Vincenzo Piso. [10] The USEI–IdeA sub-group was dissolved in May 2017. [10] After that, Bueno was affiliated with Civics and Innovators (CI) and Direction Italy (DI). [10] Sangregorio, who had opposed the constitutional reform proposed by Renzi with the 2016 constitutional referendum (Renzi lost and resigned from Prime Minister), was not willing to field Bueno again as a USEI candidate. [16]

In the 2018 general election the party won 18.7% of the vote in the South American constituency and Sangregorio was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, while Bueno led the Popular Civic List to 6.3% (compared to 0.5% in Italy) and was not elected. USEI ran also for the Senate, obtaining 20.4% and the election of Adriano Cario. In May 2018 Cario left the USEI and switched to MAIE. [17]

On 18 December 2019, USEI formed with the centrist allies of Forza Italia (Alliance of the Centre and Us with Italy) and the centre-right Cambiamo! the new sub-group within the Mixed Group "Noi con l'Italia-USEI-Cambiamo!-Alleanza di Centro".

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Chamber of Deputies – Italians abroad
Election year# of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		# of
overall seats		# of seats for
Italians abroad		±
2006 14,2051.46
0 / 630
0 / 12
Steady2.svg 0
2013 44,0244.5
1 / 630
1 / 12
Increase2.svg 1
2018 68,2916.08
1 / 630
1 / 12
Steady2.svg 1
2022 73,3896.76
0 / 400
0 / 8
Decrease2.svg 1
Senate – Italians abroad
Election year# of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		# of
overall seats		# of seats for
Italians abroad		±
2006 12,5521.41
0 / 315
0 / 6
Steady2.svg 0
2013 38,2234.3
0 / 315
0 / 6
Steady2.svg 0
2018 68,2336.61
1 / 315
1 / 6
Increase2.svg 1
2022 55,5235.09
0 / 200
0 / 4
Decrease2.svg 1

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