Lively Aosta Valley (Vallée d'Aoste Vive, VdAV) was a social-liberal Italian political party active in the Aosta Valley. It was founded on 4 December 2005 by a left-wing split from the Valdotanian Union and its leader was Roberto Louvin.
For the 2006 general election, the Lively Aosta Valley took part to the Autonomy Liberty Democracy (ALD) coalition, alongside with the Democrats of the Left, Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, Valdotanian Renewal, the Communist Refoundation Party, the Federation of the Greens and other minor parties.
In the 2008 regional election the party formed a joint list with Valdotanian Renewal: the list won 12.5% of the vote and 5 regional deputies (out of 35), of which 2 of Lively Aosta Valley. ALD was however severely defeated by the regionalist coalition.
In February 2010 VdAV agreed to merge into a new party named Autonomy Liberty Participation Ecology (ALPE), along with Valdotanian Renewal, Alternative Greens and other centre-left groups.
Famous quotes containing the words lively and/or valley:
“Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of ones neighbour is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (18111863)
“To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18071882)