Adriano Tilgher
Adriano Tilgher (born
1 October 1947 in
Taranto) is an
Italian far right politician.
Tilgher began his career as a member of the
Italian Social Movement, although in his youth he was also associated with the extremist
National Vanguard, and attempted to refound it in
1970, a move which saw him arrested for attempting to refound the
Fascist Party. He was arrested again for the same offence in
1982 and imprisoned until
1987 when he founded the
Lega Nazionalpopolare, later rebranded as
Alternativa Nazional Popolare. Both movements proved short-lived and lacking in support.
After giving up on the idea of leading his own movement he joined radical
Fiamma Tricolore (a splinter-group of the newly constituted
National Alliance) in
1996. He was, however, expelled from Fiamma Tricolore in
1997 for his criticism of the leadership of
Pino Rauti and in September of that year he set up his own party,
Fronte Nazionale, initially in imitation of the
Front National, whose leader
Jean-Marie Le Pen Tilgher invited to
Rome during the elections of that year. The party is now known as
Fronte Sociale Nazionale and, although Tilgher is still leader, he is subordinate to
Alessandra Mussolini in the
Alternativa Sociale coalition.
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