National Alliance (Italy)

National Alliance

Alleanza Nazionale
National Alliance Alleanza Nazionale
Abbreviation	AN
Leader	Gianfranco Fini (first); Ignazio La Russa (last);
Founded	22 January 1994 (as an organisation); 27 January 1995 (as a party);
Dissolved	22 March 2009
Preceded by	Italian Social Movement
Merged into	The People of Freedom
Newspaper	Secolo d'Italia
Student wing	Student Action
Youth wing	Youth Action
Membership (2004)	250,000
Ideology	National conservatism; Conservatism; Post-fascism;
Political position	Right-wing
National affiliation	Pole of Good Government (1994); Pole for Freedoms (1996–2001); House of Freedoms (2001–2008);
European affiliation	Alliance for Europe of the Nations
European Parliament group	Union for Europe of the Nations
	Politics of Italy; Political parties; Elections;

National Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Nazionale, AN) was a national conservative political party in Italy. It was the successor of the Italian Social Movement (MSI), a neo-fascist party founded in 1946 by former followers of Benito Mussolini that had moderated its policies over its last decades and finally distanced itself from its former ideology, a move known as post-fascismo, during a convention in Fiuggi by dissolving into the new party in 1995.

Gianfranco Fini was the leader of AN from its foundation through 2008, after being elected President of the Chamber of Deputies. Fini was succeeded by Ignazio La Russa, who managed the merger of the party with Forza Italia (FI) into The People of Freedom (PdL) in 2009. A group of former AN members, led by La Russa, left PdL in 2012 to launch the Brothers of Italy (FdI), while others remained in the PdL and were among the founding members of the relaunched Forza Italia (FI) in 2013.

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