Popular Republican Movement
Popular Republican Movement Partito della Ricostruzione Nazionale | |
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| President | Luciano Pella (first) Antonella Ferramonti (last) |
| Founded | July 24, 1972 |
| Dissolved | December 20, 2012 |
| Headquarters | Aquinas, Marirana |
| Ideology | Authoritarianism National conservatism Neoconservatism Neoliberalism (after 1988) |
| Political position | Far-right (1972-1991) Right-wing (1991-2012) |
| Colours | Blue, red, white |
The Party of National Reconstruction (Etrurian: Partito della Ricostruzione Nazionale; PRN) was a far-right political party that existed in Marirana from 1972 to 2012. Throughout its existence the party functioned as the official party of the civic-military dictatorship where it provided eight presidents.
The PRN was created in 1972 in order to provide a civilian political apparatus for the government to exercise its power through. Its ideology was determined by right-wing politician Ignazio Antoniotto who envisioned the party as a conservative, corporatist and authoritarian organisation with strong militarist overtones. Pella endorsed the dual rule by military officials and civilian technocrats as indicative of the "national-corporate state".
Despite the party's ideological hegemony within the regime it was dependent on the military and so displayed little autonomy from the policies of the Standing Committee of Armed Forces Command. Under the leadership of Antoniotto owing to divisions within the SCARFC and the weak leadership of Umberto D'Aloia the presidency and thus the party were able to effectively shape public affairs; however the rise of Xavier Borràs and later Vincenzo Rustichelli led to the party to become an extension of the military leadership.
From the 1990's onwards the party dropped its corporatist ideology instead embracing neoliberalism and marketisation of the economy. This came as the military slowly decoupled itself from governance with the PRN operated dominant rather then Template:One-party state system. Under president Stefano Uccello the PRN and the government as a whole became increasingly technocratic focused primarily on economic liberalisation and maintaining social and political stability.
During the 1990's and 2000's the party gained a reputation as being a nexus for corruption. In 2008 it became controlled by president Alfonso Hatoyama and his clique who increasingly turned the party into a personalist project.
Following the mass protests that led to Hatoyama's resignation in December 2012 Prime Minister Giorgio Macciocchi took control of the presidency, instantly resigning from the party and governing as an independent. By this point the PRN no longer functioned having little support from the population and its members leaving in large numbers. As a result the party's executive committee in late December 2012 voted unanimously to dissolve the party and its operations.