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The Greens Greens (Verdi Verdi) is a liberal-environmentalist political party in Italy. The party is predominantly active in Piedmont.[citation needed]
Greens Greens Verdi Verdi | |
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| Leader | Maurizio Lupi |
| Coordinator | Fabio Sanfilippo |
| Founded | 14 January 1991 |
| Split from | Federation of the Greens |
| Headquarters | Via Pio VII 78, 10135 Turin |
| Ideology | Green conservatism Green liberalism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Website | |
| www.verdiverdi.it | |
The party was founded in January 1991 by Maurizio Lupi, a physical education teacher and former member of Christian Democracy and of Federation of the Greens.[1][2]
The party took part in Italian elections for the first time at the 1992 general election. The party got 0.07% of the vote in the Chamber of Deputies and 0.09% in the Senate.[3][4] In 1997, Lupi ran as mayor of Turin, receiving 0.74% of the votes, while his party got 0.81% of the votes.[5] In 1999, the party ran in Turin provincial election, getting 0.38% of the votes.[6]
In 2003, the party's local representative Roberto De Santis received 0.5% of the votes in Rome provincial election.[7] In 2004, the party took part in the European Parliament elections with a joint list (called "Abolizione Scorporo"), together with the Federalist Greens.[8][9] The list got only 0.49% of the votes.[10]
At the 2004 Turin provincial election, the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Franco Botta; the founder Maurizio Lupi chose to run instead with an unrelated, independent list.[11]
In the 2005 Piedmontese regional elections, the Greens Greens supported the centre-right candidate Enzo Ghigo;[12] the list got 1.16% of the votes, winning one seat for its leader Maurizio Lupi.[13][1] In the 2006 general elections, the party ran as part of the House of Freedoms coalition, getting only 0.04% of the votes in the Chamber of Deputies election and 0.11% of votes in the Senate election.[14][15] In the 2008 general elections, Alessandro Lupi ran for the Chamber as part of The People of Freedom list, but wasn't elected.[citation needed] In the 2009 Turin provincial election, the party supported the candidate Renzo Rabellino, leader of the No Euro Movement; the list got only 0.39% of the votes.[16] In the 2010 Piedmontese regional elections, the Greens Greens supported centre-right candidate Roberto Cota, getting 1.76% of the votes and one seat and outperforming for the first time[citation needed] the Federation of the Greens, which received only 0.76% of the votes.[17] In the 2014 Piedmontese regional elections, the party supported the candidate of Forza Italia Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, but got only 0.27% of the votes.[18]
In 2016, Maurizio Lupi and his daughter Sara were sentenced for expenditures fraud.[19][20]
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- ^ "Elezioni provinciali - Provincia di Torino". La Stampa (in Italian). 2009-06-22. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
- ^ "Elezioni Provinciali Roma 2003". Comune di Roma (in Italian).
- ^ "elezioni europee 10-13 giugno". www.europarl.europa.eu. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
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- ^ "Risultati Europee 12/06/2004 - ITALIA". Eligendo (in Italian).
- ^ Trabucco, Marco (2004-05-16). "Il primato delle 34 liste". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-12-21.
- ^ "Elezioni regionali - La sfida in Piemonte". La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno (in Italian). 2005-03-28. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
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- ^ "Piemonte - Elezioni Regionali - 25 maggio 2014". la Repubblica (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-12-21.
- ^ Laugeri, Claudio (2016-04-06). "Spese pazze dei consiglieri regionali del Piemonte: chieste 25 condanne". La Stampa (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-12-22.
- ^ Giambartolomei, Andrea (2016-10-07). "Rimborsopoli Piemonte, 10 condanne e 15 assoluzioni tra cui ex presidente Cota: "Attacchi ignobili"". Il Fatto Quotidiano (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-12-22.