Sicilian nationalism


Sicilian nationalism is a movement in the autonomous Italian region of Sicily, as well as the :Category:Sicilian diaspora|Sicilian diaspora, which seeks greater autonomy or outright independence from Italy, and/or promotes further inclusion of the Sicilian identity, culture, history, and linguistic variety.
Various separatist and autonomist movements in Sicily have received support from the political left, right, and centre. Historically, the most notable party with a Sicilian nationalist platform was the separatist Sicilian Independence Movement, which had four seats in the Italian Senate and nine seats in the Italian Chamber of Deputies at their peak in the mid-1940s.
In contemporary Sicily, the largest regionalist party has been the autonomist Party of the Sicilians, part of the greater Movement for the Autonomies, which governed Sicily under the presidency of Raffaele Lombardo from 2008-2012. The left-wing sicilianism, once active through some Sicilian socialists, Antonino Varvaro's Movimento Indipendentista Democratico Repubblicano and the Communist Party of Sicily, is now represented only by the Sicilian Socialist Party, a regional section of the Italian Socialist Party.

Political support

After Lombardo's autonomist government, going from 2008-2012, the largest predominantly Meridionalist and Sicilianist coalition in the 2012 regional election, led by the center-right Gianfranco Micciché gathered 19.98% of the votes, becoming no longer the governing coalition. From then on, they served in the opposition in the Sicilian Parliament.
The Sicilian nationalist candidate from the party "Free Sicilians", Roberto La Rosa, taking part in the 2017 regional elections, got 0.70% of the vote.

2006 party support

PartyVotesPercentageSeats
Movement for Autonomy - New Sicily308,21912.52%10
Sicilian Alliance59,3802.41%0
Christian Democrats for Autonomy6,5300.26%0
TOTAL:374,12915.19%10

2008 party support

PartyVotesPercentageSeats
Movement for Autonomy - Allies for the South375,58713.94%15
Sicily Strong and Free119,8924.45%0
Autonomist Democrats101,4493.76%0
TOTAL:596,92822.15%15

2012 party support

PartyVotesPercentageSeats
Party of the Sicilians - Movement for the Autonomies182,7379.53%7
Force of the South - Great South115,4446.02%3
People of the Pitchfork - Sicilian National Front23,9651.25%0
Sicilian Revolution22,4221.17%0
TOTAL:344,56817.97%10

2017 party support

PartyVotesPercentageSeats
Populars and Autonomists136,5207.09%5
Future Sicily and Italian Socialist Party115,7516.01%2
Free Sicilians12,6000.70%0
TOTAL:264,87113.76%7