Secretary Flavio Tosi Founded 21 July 2015 Think tank Ricostruiamo il Paese | Coordinator Fabio Venturi Split from Lega Nord | |
Headquarters Via delle Nazioni, 19
37135 Verona | ||
Act! (Italian: Fare!, F!) is a centre-right political party in Italy, based in Veneto.
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Its leader is Flavio Tosi, mayor of Verona and former leader of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, who was ejected from it in the run-up of the 2015 Venetian regional election, due to his opposition to Matteo Salvini's political line.
History
When Tosi was ejected from Lega Nord, he was joined by three deputies (Matteo Bragantini, Roberto Caon, Emanuele Prataviera), three senators (Patrizia Bisinella, Raffaela Bellot, Emanuela Munerato), and nine regional councilors of Veneto (Luca Baggio, Matteo Toscani, Francesco Piccolo, Daniele Stival, Giuseppe Stoppato, Diego Bottacin, Maurizio Conte, Andrea Bassi, Leonardo Padrin, Mauro Mainardi, Renzo Marangon and Moreno Teso (see Tosi List for Veneto#Split from Liga Veneta).
In the regional election in Veneto Tosi ran for President won 11.9% of the vote, losing to Liga Veneta's incumbent President Luca Zaia, and two lists close to Tosi, the Tosi List for Veneto and Il Veneto del Fare con Tosi, obtained a combined 7.1% and four regional councillors (Bassi, Conte, Stefano Casali and Giovanna Negro).
In July Tosi re-organised his followers into a full-fledged party, name Act! (Fare!). Immediately, Michele Boldrin, leader of Act to Stop the Decline, sued Act! as the names of the two parties looked too similar, but nothing consequential happened.
In September a fourth deputy joined the party: Marco Marcolin, also from Liga Veneta–Lega Nord.
In October Act! became an occasional supporter of the centre-left government led by Matteo Renzi, whom Tosi held in high esteem, fueling rumors that the party might either enter in stable alliance with or join Renzi's Democratic Party. However, during the party's national convention in February 2016, Tosi rejected any notion of a stable alliance with Renzi, while expressing his interest for an agreement with other centre-right forces. There are in fact rumors that F! might soon join forces with Raffaele Fitto's Conservatives and Reformists, Gaetano Quagliariello's Identity and Action and Mario Mauro's Populars for Italy: such an alliance could boast more than 20 deputies and 15 senators.
Ideology
Act! adopts a moderate approach, supporting conservatism on public security, liberalism on social themes, economic liberalism and federalism. On issues the issues, here are some of the positions held by the party: