Autonomist Trentino is a regionalist

Regionalism (politics)

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 Christian-democratic

Christian Democracy

Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching...

 Italian political party based in Trentino.

It was founded in 2002 by a split from the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party

Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party

The Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party is a regionalist Christian-democratic Italian political party based in Trentino.-History:The party was founded in 1948 as Trentino Tyrolean People's Party . In 1982 a split between the conservative wing, led by Franco Tretter, and the centrist wing of the...

 (PATT) of those members who contested the party new alliance with the centre-left-coalition (in Trentino dominated by Democracy is Freedom – Daisy, DL). It is led by Carlo Andreotti, former PATT leader and former President of Trentino, and it is closely tied with Forza Italia

Forza Italia

Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....

.

In the 2003 provincial election, TA won 2.2% of the vote. 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

Lorenzo Dellai

Lorenzo Dellai is an Italian politician, the governor of the province of Trentino and the President of the region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol....

 (DL).

For the 2008 provincial election the party formed an alliance with the Popular Autonomy Movement

Popular Autonomy Movement

The Popular Autonomy Movement is a tiny regionalist christian-democratic political party in the province of Trentino, Italy. It is led by Luciano Pilati, economist at the University of Trento, and Guido Calliari....

, the Popular Autonomists, in support of Sergio Divina (Lega Nord Trentino

Lega Nord Trentino

Lega Nord Trentino is a regionalist political party in Italy which is the provincial section of Lega Nord in Trentino. The current national secretary is Maurizio Fugatti, deputy to the Italian Parliament...

, supported by The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom

The People of Freedom is a centre-right political party in Italy. With the Democratic Party, it is one of the two major parties of the current Italian party system....

 and a collection of regionalist parties). In the 2009 European Parliament election

European Parliament election, 2009 (Italy)

European elections to elect 72 members of the European Parliament representing Italy were held on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 June 2009, as decided by the Italian government on December 18, 2008...

 Andreotti was a candidate for the Pole of Autonomy

Pole of Autonomy

The Pole of Autonomy is an heterogeneous electoral coalition of political parties in Italy, formed in the run-up to the 2009 European Parliament election in order to overcome the 4% threshold introduced in the electoral law in February 2009...

. At this point, however, the party seemed to be almost disbanded.