Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party
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The Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (Partito Autonomista Trentino Tirolese, PATT) is a regionalist christian-democratic Italian political party based in Trentino. It was founded in 1948.
In the last provincial elections of 2003, PATT scored 9.0%, down from its best result ever (20.2% in 1993).[1] Indeed in 2002, when it entered in alliance with the centre-left coalition (in Trentino dominated by Democracy is Freedom – Daisy, DL), it suffered the split of those who wanted to continue to collaborate with the centre-right. These splinters, led by former leader and President of Trentino Carlo Andreotti, formed a much minor group called Autonomist Trentino, closely tied with Forza Italia, which scored 2.2%. In that occasion Andreotti was the candidate for President of the centre-right and he was soundly defeated (60.8% to 30.7%) by incumbent Lorenzo Dellai (DL).[2]
From 2006, thanks to a political pact with the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), PATT is for the first time ever represented in the Italian Chamber of Deputies by its former secretary Giacomo Bezzi.
