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Animalist Movement Movimento Animalista | |
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| Leader | Michela Brambilla |
| Founded | 20 May 2017 |
| Ideology | Animal rights Animal welfare |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| National affiliation | Us Moderates |
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| movimentoanimalista.it | |
TheAnimalist Movement (Italian:Movimento Animalista,MA) is acentre-rightpolitical association inItaly. MA's aim is to protectanimal rights.[1]
Its leader isMichela Brambilla, a former Minister of Tourism inSilvio Berlusconi'sfourth government,[2] with Berlusconi himself an ex-member. During the party's founding event, Berlusconi stated that the MA could gain 20% of the vote in thenext Italian general election[3] and Brambilla stressed that the party was attracting people from several cultural and political backgrounds.
Supporters/members includeFiona Swarovski,Rita Dalla Chiesa,Marina Ripa di Meana,Andrea Roncato, andCarla Rocchi, president of the Animal Protection National Body (ENPA) association and former member of theItalian Parliament for theFederation of the Greens, a party she left in 2001 because she perceived it as too leftist.[4][5] On August 10, 2017,Rinaldo Sidoli, the Italian Green Party's Spokesperson on Animal Issues joined Brambilla's new party, becoming 'Responsabile centro studi Movimento Animalista'.[6] He stated: "It's the only party advocating for animal protection and is a great example of how politics can take a lead on animal welfare. Greens have made the wrong decision looking too much to left politics and forgetting the meaning of intersectional politics".[7] He resigned on June 26, 2018 saying: "It is not an intersectional party anymore".[8]
