In December 2009 Raffaele Lombardo, leader of MpA and President of Sicily, had formed his third cabinet including ministers from his MpA party, the PdL–Sicily and the newly formed regional section of Alliance for Italy, plus some independents, including one who was close to the opposition Democratic Party (PD).

[1] The break-up of the alliance with the official PdL in Sicily and all around the South led to a painful split within the MpA.

In January 2010 Vincenzo Scotti and four deputies out of eight (Arturo Iannaccone, Elio Belcastro, Antonio Milo and Luciano Sardelli), who wanted to continue the alliance with the PdL, were expelled from the party[2] and formed their own movement.

[7] In January 2011 NS took part to Responsible Initiative (IR), a centre-right group in the Chamber, but one deputy, Antonio Gaglione, refused to join it.

[16] In May 2015 Milo left Great Autonomies and Freedom to join the new group of the Conservatives and Reformists and subsequently, in July 2015, the Liberal Popular Alliance.