Free Sardinia re-elected, but vowed to continue her political activity within SL and SEL. Free Sardinia Free Sardinia ("Sardigna Libera", SL) is a social-democratic and separatist political party in Sardinia. The party is led by Claudia Zuncheddu, a former regional councillor elected with Red Moors in the 2009 regional election. In May 2011 Zuncheddu ran for Mayor of Cagliari for Independence Republic of Sardinia (iRS) and gained just 2.4% of the vote. In April 2012 she officially launched her party. In the run-up of the 2014 regional election Zuncheddu integrated her party into the regional section of Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) and
Sardinia Kingdom ended and Sardinia was returned to Roman rule. In 533, Sardinia returned to the rule of the Byzantine Empire when the Vandals were defeated by the armies of Justinian I under the General Belisarius in the Battle of Tricamarum, in their African kingdom; Belisarius sent his general Cyril to Sardinia to retake the island. Sardinia remained in Byzantine hands for the next 300 years aside from a short period in which it was invaded by the Ostrogoths in 551. Under Byzantine rule, the island was divided into districts called "mereíai" (μερείαι) in Byzantine Greek, which were governed by a