Ilario Lanivi is an Italian politician from the Aosta Valley who has been highly involved in the formation of a number of political parties. He started his political career with the Christian Democrats

Christian Democracy (Italy)

Christian Democracy was a Christian democratic party in Italy. It was founded in 1943 as the ideological successor of the historical Italian People's Party, which had the same symbol, a crossed shield ....

. Lanivi parted ways with them in 1970 when a faction broke off to form the left-wing Popular Democrats

Popular Democrats

The Popular Democrats was a Christian-leftist Italian political party active in the Aosta Valley of Italy. Its leading members included Cesare Dujany, Maurizio Martin and Angelo Pollicini....

, which merged with the Progressive Valdotanian Union

Progressive Valdotanian Union

The Progressive Valdotanian Union was a social-democratic Italian political party active in Aosta Valley.It emerged in 1973 as a split from the Valdotanian Union and won 6.7% of the vote in that year’s regional election...

 in 1984 to become Autonomists Democrats Progressives

Autonomists Democrats Progressives

The Autonomists Democrats Progressives was a social-liberal and Christian-leftist Italian political party active in Aosta Valley...

, of which Lanivi was a leading member. On March 9, 1991, Lanivi and Amato Maquignaz founded a new political party, the Independent Autonomists

Independent Autonomists

The Independent Autonomists was a social-liberal Italian political party active in Aosta Valley.It was founded in March 1991 by Ilario Lanivi, ex-leading member of the Autonomists Democrats Progressives, and Amato Maquignaz...

. In April 1992, Lanivi was elected president of the Aosta Valley region, heading a coalition composed by the Valdotanian Union

Valdotanian Union

The Valdotanian Union is a regionalist-centrist Italian political party active in Aosta Valley. Its leaders are Ego Perron, party president, and Augusto Rollandin, President of the Region....

, the Democratic Party of the Left

Democratic Party of the Left

The Democratic Party of the Left was a post-communist, democratic socialist political party in Italy.-History:...

, the Italian Socialist Party

Italian Socialist Party

The Italian Socialist Party was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy founded in Genoa in 1892.Once the dominant leftist party in Italy, it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party following World War II...

, the Autonomists Democrats Progressives and the Italian Republican Party

Italian Republican Party

The Italian Republican Party is a liberal political party in Italy.The PRI is party with old roots that originally took a left-wing position, claiming descent from the political position of Giuseppe Mazzini...

. In 1993, Lanivi founded For Aosta Valley

For Aosta Valley

For Aosta Valley was a social-liberal and Christian-leftist Italian political party active in Aosta Valley.It was founded in 1993 by Cesare Dujany, former leader of the Popular Democrats, and Ilario Lanivi, leader of the Independent Autonomists. In the 1993 regional election the party won 4.3% of...

 together with Cesare Dujany, former leader of the Popular Democrats. In 2007, Lanivi and Augusto Rollandin were found guilty of mismanaging public transportation funds in the valley and fined EUR 300,000 and EUR 480,000 respectively