- Sardinian Action Party
Infobox_Political_Party
party_name = Sardinian Action Party
party_name_italian = Partito Sardo d'Azione
party_
party_status = Italian Regional Party
leader =Giacomo Sanna
coalition = None
newspaper = None
ideology = Regionalism,Social democracy
website = Federazione di Cagliari: [http://www.psdaz-fedca.it www.psdaz-fedca.it] Sezione di Sassari: [http://www.psdaz-ichnos.com www.psdaz-ichnos.com]The Sardinian Action Party ("Partito Sardo d'Azione", PSd'Az) is a regionalist social-democratic Italian political party active in
Sardinia .History
The party was founded after
World War II byEmilio Lussu , secretary forSouthern Italy of the Action Party during the war, and otherveteran s from the "Sassari brigade", a social-democratic group of theItalian resistance movement . Lussu himself left the party in 1948 to found the short-livedSardinian Socialist Action Party , which joined theItalian Socialist Party in 1949, as many other PSd'Az members did latterly. The two parties won 10.4 and 6.6% respectively in the first regional election in 1949.After a decline in term of votes in the 1960s and 1970s, the party re-gained strength in the 1980s (13.8% in 1984 and 12.4% in 1989). Following these results, Sardist
Mario Melis was President of Sardinia between 1984 and 1989 at the head of a five-party coalition composed also by theItalian Communist Party , theItalian Socialist Party , theItalian Democratic Socialist Party and theItalian Republican Party .This was the highest point in PSd'Az history: the party was represented in the
Italian Parliament from 1976 to 1994 andMario Melis was a MEP from 1989 to 1994.In the 2003 regional election PSd'Az won 3.9% in the Region, getting elected two regional deputies. The party is part of the
centre-left coalition which governs Sardinia, led by PresidentRenato Soru . In 2007 one of the two regional deputies left the party to join the regional Democratic Party.In the 2006 general election leader
Giacomo Sanna , due to an electoral pact namedPact for the Autonomies , was candidate ofLega Nord for the Senate inLombardy , but failed to get elected. The party run alone in the 2008 general election, winning only 1.5% in the Region.External links
* [http://www.sitos.regione.sardegna.it/nur_on_line/storia/unificazione_italiana_13.htm History of the Sardinian Action Party]
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