On 3 November 2009 the Transport Minister Altero Matteoli and the President of the Tuscany Region signed an agreement for the passage of the shipping company from the state to the region of Tuscany.
On 20 April 52 MPs (39 deputies and 13 senators) signed a document in support of Fini and his theses, while other 74 MPs formerly members of AN, including Ignazio La Russa, Maurizio Gasparri, Altero Matteoli and Giorgia Meloni, plus the Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno, signed an alternative document in which they reasserted their loyalty to the party and Berlusconi.