Italian Animalist Party Partito Animalista Italiano

Leader	Cristiano Ceriello
Spokesperson	Nicolas Micheletti
Founded	4 July 2006
Headquarters	Via Armando Diaz 140, San Giuseppe Vesuviano (NA)
Youth wing	Gioventù Animalista
Ideology	Animal rights Animal welfare Environmentalism
National affiliation	PAI–UCDL–10VM (2022–)
European affiliation	European Alliance for Freedom and Democracy Animal Politics EU
International affiliation	Animal Politics Foundation
Chamber of Deputies	0 / 400
Senate	0 / 200
European Parliament	0 / 76
Regional Councils	0 / 897
Website
https://www.partitoanimalista.org/
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The Italian Animalist Party (Partito Animalista Italiano) is a political party in Italy focused animal rights. It was founded on 4 July 2006 and is led by Cristiano Ceriello.

History

The Italian Animalist Party was founded in 2006 by lawyer and animal rights activist Cristiano Ceriello. The main objectives of the Italian Animalist Party are animal liberation and climate change activism. In 2019, the Italian Animalist Party participated in the 2019 European Parliament election, obtaining 0.6% at the national level, making it the tenth Italian political party by number of seats held.^[1]

In 2020, the party organized food collections for animals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy^[2] and presented a petition to the president of the province of Trento and to the Prefect and the Minister of the Environment asking for the release of the M49 bear.^[3]

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/−	Leaders
Chamber of Deputies
2022	21,442	0.08	0 / 400	–	Cristiano Ceriello

Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/−	Leaders
Senate of the Republic
2022	16,957	0.06	0 / 200	–	Cristiano Ceriello

European Parliament

Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/−	Leader
European Parliament
2019	160,270	0.60	0 / 76	–	Cristiano Ceriello

Regional elections

Region	Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/−
Aosta Valley	2020	1,084	1.6	0 / 35	–
Apulia	2020	5,573	0.3	0 / 51	–
Campania	2020	33,681	1.4	1 / 51	1

Symbols

Old logo
New logo

References

^ "Partito Animalista: ritratto di un esordio". 29 May 2019.
^ "Raccolta cibo per gli animali accuditi da volontari". napolitoday.it. 7 May 2020.
^ Guido Minciotti (29 April 2020). "Trentino, fine della fuga: l'orso M49 catturato con trappola tubo". Il Sole 24 Ore. Archived from the original on 1 May 2020. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

Animal rights

Topics (overviews, concepts, issues, cases)

Overviews

Concepts

Issues

Animal agriculture	Animal product Battery cage Bile bear Chick culling Concentrated animal feeding operation Fish farming Fur farming Fur trade Insect farming Intensive animal farming Intensive pig farming Livestock Poultry farming Slaughterhouse Wildlife farming Working animal
Animal testing	Alternatives to animal testing Animal testing on non-human primates Animal testing regulations Labcorp Drug Development Great ape research ban Green Scare Huntingdon Life Sciences Model organism Nafovanny Operation Backfire Vivisection
Animal welfare	Animal euthanasia Cruelty to animals Pain in animals Pain in amphibians Pain in cephalopods Pain in crustaceans Pain in fish Pain in invertebrates Pain and suffering in laboratory animals Welfare of farmed insects
Fishing	Commercial fishing Fishing bait Recreational fishing
Wild animals	Culling wildlife Hare coursing Hunting International primate trade Ivory trade Predation problem Seal hunting Wild animal suffering Wildlife management
Other	Abandoned pets Animal sacrifice Animal slaughter Animal trial Animals in sport Live food Live export

Cases

Methodologies

Observances

Advocates (academics, writers, activists)

Academics
and writers

Contemporary

Historical

Activists

Contemporary

Historical

Movement (groups, parties)

Groups

Contemporary

Historical

Animal Defence and Anti-Vivisection Society
Humanitarian League (1891–1919)
Oxford Group

Parties

Animal Justice Party (Australia)
Animal Politics EU (Europe)
Animal Protection Party of Canada (Canada)
Animal Justice Party of Finland (Finland)
Animalist Movement (Italy)
Animalist Party Against Mistreatment of Animals (Spain)
DierAnimal (Belgium)
Human Environment Animal Protection (Germany)
Italian Animalist Party (Italy)
Party for the Animals (Netherlands)
People Animals Nature (Portugal)
V-Partei³ (Germany)

Activism

Animal Rights National Conference

Media (books, films, periodicals, albums)

Books

On Abstinence from Eating Animals (3rd century)
Moral Inquiries on the Situation of Man and of Brutes (1824)
The Rights of Animals (1838)
Animals' Rights (1892)
Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology (1897)
The Universal Kinship (1906)
The New Ethics (1907)
Animals, Men and Morals (1971)
Animal Liberation (1975)
The Case for Animal Rights (1983)
Morals, Reason, and Animals (1987)
Zoos and Animal Rights (1993)
Animals, Property, and the Law (1995)
The Lives of Animals (1999)
Eternal Treblinka (2001)
Do Animals Have Rights? (2005)
Striking at the Roots (2008)
An American Trilogy (2009)
An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory (2010)
Animal Rights Without Liberation (2012)
Political Animals and Animal Politics (2014)
Animal (De)liberation (2016)
Sentientist Politics (2018)
Wild Animal Ethics (2020)
Animal Ethics in the Wild (2022)
Making a Stand for Animals (2022)

Films

The Animals Film (1981)
A Cow at My Table (1998)
Shores of Silence (2000)
The Witness (2000)
Meet Your Meat (2002)
Legally Blonde 2 (2003)
The Meatrix (2003)
Peaceable Kingdom (2004)
Earthlings (2005)
Behind the Mask (2006)
Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007)
The Cove (2009)
Peaceable Kingdom: The Journey Home (2009)
Forks Over Knives (2011)
Vegucated (2011)
An Apology to Elephants (2013)
Speciesism: The Movie (2013)
The Ghosts in Our Machine (2013)
Unlocking the Cage (2016)
Dominion (2018)
Seaspiracy (2021)

Periodicals

Journals	Animal Sentience Between the Species Cahiers antispécistes Etica & Animali Journal of Animal Ethics Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism
Magazines	Arkangel Bite Back Muutoksen kevät No Compromise Satya

Albums

Animal Liberation (1987)
Tame Yourself (1991)
Manifesto (2008)
Salvation of Innocents (2014)
Onward to Freedom (2014)

Fairs and exhibitions

Holocaust on your Plate (2003)

Category ( 136 )

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Senate of the Republic	Brothers of Italy (66) Democratic Party (38) Lega (29) (incl. Fassa) Five Star Movement (28) Forza Italia (17) Action – Italia Viva Italia Viva [7] Action [4] Greens and Left Alliance Italian Left [3] Green Europe [1] Us Moderates Coraggio Italia [1] Union of the Centre [1] South Tyrolean People's Party (2) Associative Movement of Italians Abroad (1) Campobase (1)
European Parliament	Lega (24) Democratic Party (15) (incl. DemoS) Forza Italia (10) Brothers of Italy (8) Five Star Movement (6) Action – Italia Viva Italia Viva [1] Action [1] South Tyrolean People's Party (1)
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