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Who we are - An introduction

Forza Italia Giovani is the youth organization of Forza Italia, the first Italian party in the latest elections (about 26% nationwide). Since December 1999, Forza Italia is full member of the European People's Party. We are in the EPP Group at the European Parliament with 22 MEPs (including the president of the Committee on culture and youth, a vice-president of the EPP Group, a vice-president of the Parliament).

Forza Italia Giovani is constituted by all members of Forza Italia between 14 and 28 years old. The links between Forza Italia and FI Giovani are close, but the youth movement has full autonomy in its own structure and political positions. FI Giovani follows the same principles as Forza Italia, with particular attention for youth politics, student politics, and social activities. The structure presents the national board, the national council (entitled to determine the political line of the movement), the national guarantee committee, the regional levels and the local branches. The national chairman participates to the Presidency board of Forza Italia, the top executive council of the party. The resources of FI Giovani come from the party, and these are proportioned to the number of members of the youth organization (67.000 this year).

FI Giovani is born in 1996; the people involved in the construction of this organization had to build a brand new structure nationwide, and this phase has been as hard as interesting. Since January 1999, FI Giovani celebrated the local and regional congresses, becoming a full democratic organization; the internal election system is transparent, and there is no proxy vote. We elected more than 1600 local representatives of the youth movement, and 288 regional representatives. On December 11 - 12, 1999, we celebrated our first National Congress: 248 delegates, elected in the regional congresses, voted and elected our new Chairman, Simone Baldelli, the National Board, the National Council and the National Guarantee Committee. Our next Congress will be held in two years (December 2001). If you want further information about our congresses, we invite you to read our report.

FI Giovani is very involved in the student world. We focused in both high school politics and university politics. In the first case, we created a net of young students interested in their own policy (Alternativa Studentesca), and we have many representatives in the school boards in all the country. For university, we had great results in the latest local athenaeums elections (e.g. we have high-level representatives in all the universities of Rome and Milan), and we had a good result in the National University Students Council elections.

About the general political activity, we have an important role not only following our mother party, but also pushing it about specific issues (e.g. Digital revolution). We organise public events in the territory, through both regional and local branches, like meetings, conferences, etc. We often organise national meetings to discuss top issues: the last one has been about Freedom of education. Furthermore, we are very active in taking position on the national media: you can often find our positions about the latest news in the newspapers.