Independent Alternative for Italians Abroad
The Independent Alternative for Italians Abroad (Italian: Alternativa Indipendente Italiani All 'Estero; AIIE) was a party list that contested the 2006 Italian general election in the overseas division of North America and Central America. It ran four candidates for the Chamber of Deputies and two candidates for the Italian Senate. The party did not win any seats.
The AIIE supported improvements in consular and health-care services for Italians living abroad, and was generally focused on interactions between Italy and the country's diaspora population.[1] One candidate for the Italian Chamber of Deputies indicated that the party was neither right-wing nor left-wing, and that it opposed bureaucracy while supporting freedom for both the individual and society.[2] Another party candidate for the Italian Senate said that the AIIE was seeking to reach an electorate of moderate and undecided voters.[3]
Electoral record
| The Union candidate preference votes |
| Gino Bucchino (elected) |
10,361 |
| Giovanni Rapana' |
8,626 |
| Silvana Mangione |
8,086 |
| Graziella Ciminata Bivona |
4,502 |
| Forza Italia candidate preference votes |
| Salvatore Ferrigno (elected) |
10,492 |
| Liliana Bartolotta |
4,717 |
| Paolo Antonio Ariemma |
4,427 |
| Angela Della Costanza Turner |
3,392 |
| Northern League candidate preference votes |
| Guido Renzi |
541 |
| Stefano Bagnasco |
431 |
| Natale Salvatore Caruso |
312 |
| Tricolour Flame candidate preference votes |
| Giorgio Viti |
382 |
| Vito Verzura |
351 |
Source: ARCHIVIO STORICO DELLE ELEZIONI - Consultazione dati: Camera 09/04/2006, Area ESTERO, Ripartizione AMERICA SETTENTRIONALE E CENTRALE, Ministerio dell'Interno, Government of Italy, accessed 27 July 2011. Voters were not required to give a preference vote for any candidate.
References
- ↑ "Serafini e Adamo annunciano la lista Alternativa Indipendente", Italia Estera, 17 November 2005(?), accessed 22 July 2011.
- ↑ Francesco de Leo, "Sei di destra, di centro o di sinistra?", 24 March 2006, accessed 22 July 2011.
- ↑ "Intervista al teramano Dom Serafini, candidato indipendente per il voto degli italiani del Nordamerica", Teramo News, accessed 22 July 2011.