- Rose in the Fist
Infobox_Italian_former_political_party
name_english = Rose in the Fist
foundation =17 November 2005
dissolution =18 December 2007
leaders =Emma Bonino ,Enrico Boselli
newspaper = none
membership_year=
membership = "unknown"
ideology =Social liberalism ,Social democracy ,Laicism ,Third Way
international = "none"
european = "none"
europarl = "none"
website = [http://www.rosanelpugno.it/ http://www.rosanelpugno.it]
colorcode = orangeThe Rose in the Fist ("Rosa nel Pugno", RnP) was an Italian political federation of parties founded in
17 November 2005 and disbanded during 2007. On18 December 2007 the parliamentary group of the federation in the Chamber of Deputies changed its name from "Rose in the Fist" to "Socialists and Radicals – RnP".Its members were the
Italian Democratic Socialists (led byEnrico Boselli andRoberto Villetti , theItalian Radicals (led byMarco Pannella andEmma Bonino ) and some independent members gathered in theAssociation for the Rose in the Fist (Lanfranco Turci ,Salvatore Buglio ,Biagio De Giovanni ,Luciano Cafagna , etc.), whereas the left-wing of theNew Italian Socialist Party (NPSI) showed some interest in joining this federation. Some members of NPSI actually left their party in order to adhere to RnP: theReformist Socialists ofDonato Robilotta .RnP was part of the centre-left coalition of parties The Union and was one of the main Italian supporters of
gay rights ,abortion andeuthanasia .History
The federation was constituted in September 2005, during a convention held in
Fiuggi , based on the political principles ofJosé Luis Zapatero (excluding foreign policy, where the Radicals have a pro-American stance),Tony Blair andLoris Fortuna . In November, its official definition was finally announced, and the symbol presented, recalling the current emblem of theSocialist International , and the historical logo of the Italian Radicals during the 1970s and the 1980s, but also the current one of theItalian Democratic Socialists , that being a redrose .The Radical component of the alliance createsd some friction with the more Roman Catholic components of The Union, such as
Democracy is Freedom – Daisy andUDEUR Populars . The Socialist component was made up mostly of veterans of theItalian Socialist Party , who had some problems with former anti-corruption prosecutorAntonio Di Pietro (who caused the demise of their former party with his investigations duringMani Pulite ) and his movementItaly of Values . There was also the so-called "third component", composed mainly by ex-Democrats of the Left , asLanfranco Turci ,Salvatore Buglio ,Biagio De Giovanni andLuciano Cafagna , now gathered in theAssociation for the Rose in the Fist .Popular support
The federation presented its own lists for the 2006 general election, obtaining 2.6% of votes, and winning 18 seats (9 for SDI, 7 for the Radicals, one for
Lanfranco Turci and one forSalvatore Buglio ) in the Chamber of Deputies and no seats in the Senate.This was not an encouraging result, indeed a bad one, considering that the Radicals alone scored 2.3% both at the 2001 general election and at the 2004 European Parliament election, while the Socialists have an electoral force of 2-3% in regional and local elections.
In particular, it seems that the Radicals lost votes to
Forza Italia in their Northern strongholds (asPiedmont ,Lombardy ,Veneto andFriuli-Venezia Giulia ), while the Socialists did the same in favour of theOlive Tree coalition in their Southern strongholds (asAbruzzo ,Campania ,Apulia ,Basilicata andCalabria ). The table below shows how the two parties were not able to secure the favor of their usual voters, so that the Rose in the Fist scored less than Radicals alone in the North and the Socialists alone in the South.External links
* [http://www.rosanelpugno.it/ Official website]
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