Pensioners' National Party

The Pensioners' National Party (Partito Nazionale Pensionati, PNP) was a political party active in Italy.

Pensioners' National Party
Partito Nazionale Pensionati
SecretaryAchille Facchinetti
Giuseppe Polini
Founded1979
Dissolvedc.1990
HeadquartersVia Azzo Gardino 3 , 40122 Bologna[1]
Membership (1983)15,000[2]
IdeologyPensioners' interests
Single issue politics

History

The PNP was founded in 1979 in Bologna by Achille Facchinetti.[3]

The party ran in the 1983 general elections, obtaining 1.4% of the votes for the Chamber and 1.2% of the votes for the Senate. Despite the good result, the party, however, did not reach a quorum in any constituency and so didn't get any seats in Parliament.

On the occasion of the 1987 general elections, the party struck an electoral agreement with the Venetian League. The list (called "Venetian League – United Pensioners")[4] obtained 0.8% of the votes for the Chamber and 0.9% of the votes for the Senate. Also on this occasion the party failed to elect its members to parliament by about 1,200 votes. After the electoral defeat, the national deputy secretary of the party Carlo Fatuzzo, the provincial secretary of Milan Roberto Bernardelli, as well as the former party president Alberto Marconi (already expelled from the PNP shortly before the elections), accused Facchinetti of having received money from the Italian Socialist Party without informing the party directorate, as well as of having carried out electoral negotiations without consulting the electoral committee.[5]

Fatuzzo, along with six other members of the PNP (Bernardelli included), was expelled from the party and founded the new Pensioners' Party.[6]

In 1990 the new secretary Giuseppe Polini merged the PNP with numerous associations for the defence of pensioners in the new movement Pensioners Alive (Pensionati Vivi).[7]

Election results

Chamber of Deputies
Election Leader Votes  % Seats +/− Status
1983 Achille Facchinetti 503,461 1.4
0 / 630
 New Extra-parliamentary
1987 In the Venetian League
0 / 630
 Steady Extra-parliamentary

Senate
Election Leader Votes  % Seats +/− Status
1983 Achille Facchinetti 370,756 1.2
0 / 315
 New Extra-parliamentary
1987 In the Venetian League
0 / 315
 Steady Extra-parliamentary

References
  1. CPA World Directory of Old Age, p. 86
  2. A colloquio con i candidati delle prossime elezioni: Bertolotto E' il segretario del neonato partito dei pensionati - «Siamo poveri, ma ci voteranno in tanti»
  3. Pensionati, brava gente, ma nessun deputato
  4. Liste - Aumentano i movimenti
  5. Partito dei pensionati, cento milioni di guai
  6. Che baruffa per i pensionati! Domani nasce il nuovo partito
  7. Ancora guerra tra i pensionati: Congresso per 100 persone
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