Autonomies for Europe

Autonomies for Europe (Italian: Autonomie per l'Europa, ApE) was a regionalist^[1] coalition of parties formed in Aosta Valley, Italy in order to participate in the 2019 European Parliament election.

Autonomies for Europe Autonomie per l'Europa
Leader	Marco Gheller
Founded	March 2019
Preceded by	Aosta Valley
Ideology	Regionalism
National affiliation	Centre-left coalition
European affiliation	European Free Alliance
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 630
Senate	1 / 315
European Parliament	0 / 73
Regional Governments	1 / 20
Regional Council	15 / 35
Politics of Aosta Valley Political parties Elections

The coalition had a technical agreement with the Democratic Party (PD).^[2] ApE's candidate was Marco Gheller,^[3] who received also the support of Great North, Pro Lombardy Independence and other minor regional parties of northern Italy.

Composition

The alliance is composed of the following five parties:

Party		Main ideology	Leader
	Valdostan Union (UV)	Regionalism, Centrism	Erik Lavévaz
	Progressive Valdostan Union (UVP)	Regionalism, Progressivism	Giuliano Morelli
	Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology (ALPE)	Regionalism, Social democracy	Roberto Cunéaz
	Edelweiss (SA)	Regionalism, Christian democracy	Carlo Marzi
	Valdostan Autonomist Popular Edelweiss (EPAV)	Regionalism, Centrism	Mauro Beccega

Originally, For Our Valley was supposed to join ApE, but finally backtracted. Also Mouv', an emerging regional party which would grow bigger in the 2020 regional election, refused to join the coalition.^[4]

Electoral results

European Parliament

European Parliament
Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/–	Leader
2019	6,904 (3rd)	13.9	0 / 76	–	Marco Gheller

References

1. Guy Puzey (2012). "Two-Way Traffic: How Linguistic Landscapes Reflect and Influence the Politics of Language". In Durk Gorter; Heiko F. Marten; Luk Van Mensel (eds.). Minority Languages in the Linguistic Landscape. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-230-27244-6.^{[permanent dead link]}
2. "Europee, il blocco autonomista svela nome e simbolo". 6 April 2019.
3. E' Marco Gheller il candidato per Autonomie per l'Europa
4. "-2 mesi alle elezioni europee". www.bobine.tv. Archived from the original on 2019-04-18.