{{Short description|Italian parliamentary group}} {{more citations needed|date=June 2018}}
{{Infobox parliamentary group | color = {{party color|For the Autonomies}} | name = For the Autonomies | native_name = Per le Autonomie | logo = | leader = Julia Unterberger | foundation = 30 May 2001 | dissolution = | headquarters = | ideology = {{nowrap|Regionalism{{efn|SVP (2001–), UV (2001–2006, 2008–2022), Daisy Civic List/UpT/CB (2001–2008, 2013–), RV (2006–2008), VN (2011–2013), ScN (2022–)}}<br />Christian democracy{{efn|SVP (2001–), Daisy Civic List/UpT/CB (2001–2008, 2013–), PPI (2001–2002), DE (2001–2002), UdC (2008–2013), DemoS (2014–2018), CpE (2018–2022)}}<br />Social democracy{{efn|DS (2006–2007), RV (2006–2008), PD (2007–2008, 2013–), PSI (2011–2018)}}<br />Green politics{{efn|VVV (2025–), EV (2025–present)}}}} | position = Centre to centre-left | legislature = Senate | members = {{Composition bar|7|205|#FF8581}} | website = | country = Italy | footnotes = }}
'''For the Autonomies''' ({{langx|it|Per le Autonomie}}, '''Aut''') is a heterogeneous, mostly centrist, centre-left and regionalist, parliamentary group which has been active, with slightly different names and compositions, in the Italian Senate since 2001.
==History== The group was formed in May 2001 by six senators representing the northern special-statute autonomous regions of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol (composed of two autonomous provinces, Trentino and South Tyrol) and Aosta Valley, two senators of European Democracy (DE) and senators for life Giulio Andreotti (a long-time Christian Democrat, who was then a member of DE too) and Gianni Agnelli.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.senato.it/leg/14/BGT/Schede/GruppiStorici/00000048.htm|title=senato.it - Composizione del Gruppo Per le Autonomie nella XIV Legislatura|website=www.senato.it}}</ref> Instrumental in the formation of the group were Helga Thaler Ausserhofer, who served also as its first president, and Andreotti: the two formed a friendship and a strong political bond, despite their different geographical and political backgrounds.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.salto.bz/de/article/22022018/andreotti-nobelpreistraeger-die-svp|title=Andreotti, Nobelpreisträger & die SVP|date=February 22, 2018|website=Salto.bz}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Politica/2006/04_Aprile/25/cazzullo.shtml|title=I dubbi di Helga, sudtirolese con il "divo Giulio" nel cuore - Corriere della Sera|website=www.corriere.it}}</ref>
The group has since been home for the regionalist parties usually affiliated with the centre-left Olive Tree (Ulivo) coalition and, later, the Democratic Party (PD), including the South Tyrolean People's Party (SVP), the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (PATT), the Union for Trentino (UpT), the Valdostan Union (UV) and Valdostan Renewal (RV), and most senators for life, including Andreotti (2001–2006, 2008–2013), Agnelli (2001–2003), Francesco Cossiga (2003–2006, 2008–2010), Emilio Colombo (2008–2013), Carlo Rubbia (2013–2018), Elena Cattaneo (2013–present), Giorgio Napolitano (2015–2023), Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (2015–2016), Renzo Piano (2015–2018) and Carlo Rubbia (2022–present).
In 2006–2008 the group survived thanks to the influx of six senators of the would-be PD.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.senato.it/leg/15/BGT/Schede/GruppiStorici/00000052.htm|title=senato.it - Composizione del Gruppo Per le Autonomie nella XV Legislatura|website=www.senato.it}}</ref> In 2008–2013 it welcomed the Union of the Centre (UdC), the Associative Movement Italians Abroad (MAIE) and some centre-right independent or minor-party senators; during that parliamentary term the group saw also the return of Andreotti and Cossiga.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede/GruppiStorici/00000058.htm|title=senato.it - Composizione del Gruppo Unione di Centro, SVP e Autonomie (Union Valdôtaine, MAIE, Verso Nord, Movimento Repubblicani Europei, Partito Liberale Italiano, Partito Socialista Italiano) nella XVI Legislatura|website=www.senato.it}}</ref> In 2013–2018 the group welcomed the senators of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and, from 2014 to 2018, those of Solidary Democracy (DeS).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.senato.it/leg/17/BGT/Schede/GruppiStorici/00000069.htm|title=senato.it - Composizione del Gruppo Per le Autonomie (SVP-UV-PATT-UPT)-PSI-MAIE nella XVII Legislatura|website=www.senato.it}}</ref> More recently, from 2018 to 2022, the group featured also Pier Ferdinando Casini (Centrists for Europe–CP), who has continuously served in Parliament since 1983.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.senato.it/leg/18/BGT/Schede/Gruppi/00000069.htm|title=senato.it - Composizione del Gruppo Per le Autonomie (SVP-PATT, UV)|website=www.senato.it}}</ref> In 2025 the group was joined by one senator representing the Greens of South Tyrol and Green Europe.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-19 |title=La senatrice Aurora Floridia aderisce al Gruppo per le Autonomie: “Fondamentale fare squadra per affrontare al meglio le sfide del territorio” |url=https://www.ildolomiti.it/politica/2025/la-senatrice-aurora-floridia-aderisce-al-gruppo-per-le-autonomie-fondamentale-fare-squadra-per-affrontare-al-meglio-le-sfide-del-territorio |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=il Dolomiti |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=SALTO |date=2025-02-20 |title=Una verde nel gruppo per le Autonomie {{!}} SALTO |url=https://salto.bz/it/article/20022025/cresce-il-gruppo-le-autonomie |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=salto.bz |language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Redazione |date=2025-02-19 |title=Aurora Floridia con i Verdi Grüne Vërc nel Gruppo Autonomie |url=https://www.buongiornosuedtirol.it/2025/02/19/aurora-floridia-con-i-verdi-grune-verc-nel-gruppo-autonomie/ |access-date=2025-03-20 |website=BGS News - Buongiorno Südtirol |language=it-IT}}</ref>
==Composition== === 2022–present === {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%" |- !rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party !rowspan=2|Main ideology !colspan=2|MPs |- !2022 !now |- | bgcolor="{{party color|South Tyrolean People's Party}}" | | South Tyrolean People's Party | Regionalism | align=right | 2 | align=right | 2 |- | bgcolor="#96bf0d" | | Campobase | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party (Italy)}}" | | Democratic Party{{efn|Luigi Spagnolli, elected in the constituency of Bolzano.}} | Social democracy | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Greens (South Tyrol)}}" | | Greens of South Tyrol / Green Europe | Green politics | align=right | – | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|South calls North}}" | | South calls North | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | – |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Other}}" | | colspan=2|Non-party independents | align=right | 2 | align=right | 2 |- | colspan=3|'''Total''' | align=right | '''7''' | align=right | '''7''' |} {{small|Source: [https://www.senato.it/leg/19/BGT/Schede/Gruppi/00000069.htm Senate of the Republic]}}
===2018–2022=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%" |- !rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party !rowspan=2|Main ideology !colspan=2|MPs |- !2018 !2022 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|South Tyrolean People's Party}}" | | South Tyrolean People's Party | Regionalism | align=right | 3 | align=right | 3 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Valdostan Union}}" | | Valdostan Union | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party (Italy)}}" | | Democratic Party{{efn|Gianclaudio Bressa, elected with the support of the South Tyrolean People's Party in the constituency of Bolzano.}} | Social democracy | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="lightblue" | | Centrists for Europe–CP | Centrism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Other}}" | | colspan=2|Non-party independents | align=right | 2 | align=right | 2 |- | colspan=3|'''Total''' | align=right | '''8''' | align=right | '''8''' |} {{small|Source: [http://www.senato.it/leg/18/BGT/Schede/Gruppi/00000069.htm Senate of the Republic]}}
===2013–2018=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%" |- !rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party !rowspan=2|Main ideology !colspan=2|MPs |- !2013 !2018 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Italian Socialist Party (2007)}}" | | Italian Socialist Party | Social democracy | align=right | 2 | align=right | 3 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|South Tyrolean People's Party}}" | | South Tyrolean People's Party | Regionalism | align=right | 2 | align=right | 2 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party}}" | | Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Union for Trentino}}" | | Union for Trentino | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Valdostan Union}}" | | Valdostan Union | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party (Italy)}}" | | Democratic Party{{efn|Francesco Palermo, elected with the support of the South Tyrolean People's Party in the constituency of Bolzano.}} | Social democracy | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Other}}" | | colspan=2|Non-party independents | align=right | 2 | align=right | 5 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Solidary Democracy}}" | | Solidary Democracy | Christian left | align=right | – | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Associative Movement Italians Abroad}}" | | Associative Movement Italians Abroad | Centrism | align=right | – | align=right | 1 |- | colspan=3|'''Total''' | align=right | '''10''' | align=right | '''16''' |} {{small|Source: [http://www.senato.it/leg/17/BGT/Schede/GruppiStorici/00000069.htm Senate of the Republic]}}
===2008–2013=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%" |- !rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party !rowspan=2|Main ideology !colspan=2|MPs |- !2008 !2013 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|South Tyrolean People's Party}}" | | South Tyrolean People's Party | Regionalism | align=right | 3 | align=right | 3 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Union of the Centre (2002)}}" | | Union of the Centre | Christian democracy | align=right | 3 | align=right | 5 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Valdostan Union}}" | | Valdostan Union | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Associative Movement of Italians Abroad}}" | | Associative Movement Italians Abroad | Centrism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Other}}" | | colspan=2|Non-party independents | align=right | 3 | align=right | 2 |- | bgcolor="lightblue" | | Toward North | Regionalism | align=right | – | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Italian Socialist Party (2007)}}" | | Italian Socialist Party | Social democracy | align=right | – | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Italian Republican Party}}" | | Italian Republican Party | Social liberalism | align=right | – | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Italian Liberal Party (1997)}}" | | Italian Liberal Party | Liberalism | align=right | – | align=right | 1 |- | colspan=3|'''Total''' | align=right | '''11''' | align=right | '''16''' |} {{small|Source: [http://www.senato.it/leg/16/BGT/Schede/GruppiStorici/00000058.htm Senate of the Republic]}}
===2006–2008=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%" |- !rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party !rowspan=2|Main ideology !colspan=2|MPs |- !2006 !2008 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|South Tyrolean People's Party}}" | | South Tyrolean People's Party | Regionalism | align=right | 3 | align=right | 3 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Democrats of the Left}}" | | Democrats of the Left | Social democracy | align=right| 3 | align=right | 0 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy}}" | | Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy | Centrism | align=right | 2 | align=right | 0 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Union for Trentino}}" | | Daisy Civic List | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="red" | | Valdostan Renewal | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Democratic Party (Italy)}}" | | Democratic Party | Social democracy | align=right | – | align=right | 5 |- | colspan=3|'''Total''' | align=right | '''10''' | align=right | '''10''' |} {{small|Source: [https://www.senato.it/leg/15/BGT/Schede/GruppiStorici/00000052.htm Senate of the Republic]}}
===2001–2006=== {| class="wikitable" style="font-size:100%" |- !rowspan=2 colspan=2|Party !rowspan=2|Main ideology !colspan=2|MPs |- !2001 !2006 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|South Tyrolean People's Party}}" | | South Tyrolean People's Party | Regionalism | align=right | 3 | align=right | 3 |- | bgcolor="#6495ed" | | European Democracy | Christian democracy | align=right | 3 | align=right | 0 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Union for Trentino}}" | | Daisy Civic List | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Valdostan Union}}" | | Valdostan Union | Regionalism | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Italian People's Party (1994)}}" | | Italian People's Party | Christian democracy | align=right | 1 | align=right | 0 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Other}}" | | colspan=2|Non-party independents | align=right | 1 | align=right | 4 |- | bgcolor="{{party color|Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy}}" | | Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy | Centrism | align=right | – | align=right | 1 |- | colspan=3|'''Total''' | align=right | '''10''' | align=right | '''10''' |} {{small|Source: [https://www.senato.it/leg/14/BGT/Schede/GruppiStorici/00000048.htm Senate of the Republic]}}
==Leadership== *President: **Helga Thaler Ausserhofer (SVP, 2001–2006) **Oskar Peterlini (SVP, 2006–2008) **Gianpiero D'Alia (UdC, 2008–2013) **Karl Zeller (SVP, 2013–2018) **Julia Unterberger (SVP, 2018–present)
==Notes== {{Notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Italian political parties}} Category:Parliamentary groups in Italy