Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Force of the South (Forza del Sud, FdS) is a liberal-conservative political party in Italy based in Sicily. In September 2010, after years of weighting (see PdL Sicily), Gianfranco Micciché, long-time leader of Forza Italia and, later, The People of Freedom (PdL) in Sicily and Under-Secretary in Berlusconi IV Cabinet, announced his exit from the PdL and his intention to launch a "Sicilian people's party", which would have then merged with other southern "people's parties" to form the "Party of the South".