The foundation was launched in February 2007 by
Gianfranco Fini, leader of
National Alliance (AN), and
Adolfo Urso, MP for the same party, at a convention that rallied 105 personalities of the culture, economy and arts sectors, including former Constitutional Court President
Annibale Marini, TV personality and lawyer
Tina Lagostena Bassi, the rector of the
Milan Polytechnic Giovanni Azzone, sociologist
Sabino Acquaviva, actor
Luca Barbareschi, television host
Rita Dalla Chiesa and operatic soprano
Cecilia Gasdia. According to the founders,
FareFuturo hadn't the purpose to succeed AN, but enlarge under a European perspective the culture of the Italian right-wing, re-organizing it after the defeat of the
House of Freedoms in the
2006 election. The think tank
FareFuturo was officially founded on 15 May 2007 in Rome. Also former Spanish PM José Aznar attended the foundative meeting, expressing his desire to see AN join in the
European People's Party (EPP), the main
centre-right party in the European Union. In September 2007, thanks to Aznar's pressure,
FareFuturo attende the meeting of the
Centre for European Studies, the EPP's think tank. In April 2009, a statement of political analyst
Sofia Ventura about the TV showgirls (
veline) involvement in Italian politics, published on the web-magazine of
FareFuturo, caused polemics and criticisms also inside the same political area of the foundation, especially about the presumed attitude of Fini's main ally
Silvio Berlusconi. In November 2009,
FareFuturo started a solid cooperation with
FAES, the Aznar's foundation. In 2010, during tensions inside the recently founded
The People of Freedom (PdL) party between Berlusconi and Fine,
FareFuturo sided with the
Finiani, who finally left the party in February 2011 to found
Future and Freedom (FLI), a liberal conservative party led by Fini. In March 2011, however, many members left the foundation and the web-magazine was closed. Fini resigned the presidency over the foundation in favour to Urso, who became the new president. Urso rapidly fell in disagreement with the now-
centrist policy of Fini, who established the
New Pole for Italy, a coalition between FLI, the
Union of the Centre (UDC) and
API. Instead to re-align the foundation to the PdL, Urso prosecuted a policy of distance between all the centre-right parties, claiming for a "popular constituent" for the creation of conservative party, who will had to represent the EPP in Italy. To represent this project, in April 2011 Urso created the foundation
FareItalia (literally "MakeItaly"), that in 2013 joined in the national-conservative party
Brothers of Italy (FdI), led by
Giorgia Meloni. In January 2018, Urso was selected by FdI candidate for the
Chamber of Deputies, in prevision to the
2018 election. • ==References==