The cabinet featured Salvini as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, Giancarlo Giorgetti as Secretary of the Council and four other League members (plus an independent close to the party) as ministers. After the election, the League joined FI, National Alliance (AN) and the Christian Democratic Centre (CCD) to form a coalition government under Berlusconi and the party obtained five ministries in Berlusconi's first cabinet: Interior for Roberto Maroni (who was also Deputy Prime Minister), Budget for Giancarlo Pagliarini, Industry for Vito Gnutti, European affairs for Domenico Comino and Institutional Reforms for Francesco Speroni. Col no si va a votare" – Referendum", "Matteo Salvini a Firenze: "Pronto a candidarmi come premier, "Lega, un congresso per togliere la parola Nord", "Salvini vuole togliere il "Nord" al nome della Lega", "Clamoroso Salvini, addio Lega Nord. C' è stata una vera svolta", "Bossi: federalismo grazie al Pd Ho detto io a Bersani di astenersi", "Clandestini riaccompagnati in Libia Maroni applaude, l'Onu protesta", "Fassino: la sinistra cambi Nel Paese c' è il rischio di una guerra tra poveri", "Il Pd e il caso Fassino Parisi apre, no dalemiano", "Sondaggio politico-elettorale sull'immigrazione clandestina", "Il Pdl a Pd e Udc: basta tensioni Regionali, il Veneto alla Lega", "Veneto, sì a Zaia. This is because Lega Nord, as a "people's party" representing the North as a whole, includes both liberal-conservative and social democratic factions. The party's constitution was reformed accordingly and still proclaims at article 1 that the LN's fundamental goal is "the achievement of the independence of Padania, through democratic means, and its international recognition as independent and sovereign federal republic". The party became the largest in Veneto with 35.2% and the second-largest in Lombardy with 26.2% while getting stronger all around the North and in some regions of central Italy. [338] The independentist wing crosses all the other factions and tendencies and in fact includes Borghezio and Francesco Speroni, among others. The party's constitution was changed in order to make Bossi federal president for life, to restructure the federal organisation and to give more autonomy to the national sections, in fact transforming the federation into a confederation.[79][80]. Finally, reminding Salvini's left-wing roots, he remarked that "those are the origins" and that also Salvini would eventually share his views. Vedremo, "Sara Fumagalli. [177] However, after successful talks between the League's former coalition partner, the M5S, and the Democratic Party, the incumbent government was eventually replaced by a new government led by Conte. The party is also libertarian populist in its promotion of small ownership, small and medium-sized enterprise, small government as opposed to governmental bureaucracy, waste of public funds, pork barrel spending and corruption. La Lega boccia l'assistenzialismo", "Prostituzione: Lega presenta legge per regolamentazione – Lega Salvini Premier", "La Lega: pm eletti dal popolo Pdl diviso, no dai democratici", "Movimento politico Lega Nord per l'indipendenza della Padania: programmi ed iniziative del partito", "Lega, il partito filo Milosevic ora dà il via libera all'America", "I Poli trovano l'intesa, sì all'intervento militare", "Sì a maggioranza, via alla "missione Afghanistan, "Calderoli: Bush regali l'atomica ad Ahmadinejad", "Lo strappo della Lega sulla missione italiana", "La Lega tende a smarcarsi. [397][398][399] Lega Nord is stronger in the areas of the late Republic of Venice and among Catholics. When asked to tell his most preferred politician of the 20th century, he said Giacomo Matteotti, a Socialist MP who was killed by Fascist squads in 1925 and remembered his anti-fascist and left-wing roots.[205]. [citation needed], Third and fourth, the party has always included also a group of libertarians, whose leading members Leonardo Facco, Gilberto Oneto and Giancarlo Pagliarini have since left the party; and an Independentist Unit. In its political programme, the party is committed to the environment, supporting public green areas, the establishment of natural parks, recycling and the end (or regulation) of the construction of sheds in country areas, especially in Veneto. The wing from the province of Varese and more broadly the bulk of the original Lega Lombarda (including Umberto Bossi, Roberto Maroni and Marco Formentini) has tended to be the left-wing of the party while that from the province of Bergamo (notably Roberto Calderoli) has tended to be more conservative. The party's current national secretary is Edoardo Rixi, its president Francesco Bruzzone We are realistic, we dream the impossible". Colpa dei Servizi, la gente si incazza, "Bossi: con Le Pen alleanza transitoria. Although there are almost no official factions within the party, it is possible to distinguish several tendencies or wings. Combined result of party list (13.0%) and Roberto Maroni's personal list (10.2%). [308][309] Moreover, the first and so far only black mayor in Italy belongs to the League: Sandy Cane (whose mother is Italian and father is an African American)[310] was elected mayor in Viggiù in 2009. Oneto, father of Padanian nationalism; and Pagliarini were also close to this group.[339][340]. "Italy and Lega Nord: Stories of Communities, National (Dis) Integration and Spaces of (Restricted) Citizenship. While Calderoli was again a keen supporter of the arrangement, Maroni was far less warm on Berlusconi and at times evoked an alliance with the centre-left Democratic Party. "shouldUseShareProductTool": true, The LN arrived third with 15.2% in Veneto (where Tosi obtained many more votes than Salvini, showing his popular support once for all and proving how the party was far from united on the anti-Euro stance),[101] ahead of the new Forza Italia (FI) and the other PdL's spin-offs; and fourth in Lombardy with 14.6%. The Lega Nord (English: Northern League; whose complete name is Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania; abbr. [173][174] In February 2019 the Italian magazine L'Espresso had already published an investigation revealing another 3 million euro funding scheme,[175] paid for by Kremlin-linked entities and disguised as a diesel sale. The second was formed around Roberto Calderoli, who was the powerful coordinator of Lega Nord's national secretariats and had among his closest supporters Giacomo Stucchi and Davide Boni. [43][44] The centre-right coalition won the 2000 regional elections and the League entered the regional governments of Lombardy, Veneto, Piedmont and Liguria. [390] More worringly for party's unity, Bossi threatened to leave the party and form an alternative movement with Roberto Bernardelli's Padanian Union.[391][392]. [200] Party leaders generally reject the "right-wing" label,[201][202][203] though not the "populist" label. [193][194] A new buzzword, devolution (often used in English), was also introduced, but with less success than "federalism". [296] In 2006 the ECRI noticed that "some members of the Northern League have intensified the use of racist and xenophobic discourse". 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[367] After Pontida 2011, Mauro and Reguzzoni tried to convince Bossi to remove Giorgetti from the leadership of Lega Lombarda, but this move was strongly opposed by Maroni and Calderoli, who were supported in this also by Cota and most Venetians. The combined result of party list and Donatella Tesei's personal list was 40.9%. When Bossi finally decided to withdraw from the government in December, Maroni vocally disagreed and walked out. Among other things, he was accused of having taken money away from the party's chest and paid it out to Bossi's family and other members of the magic circle, notably including Mauro. The party's founder and long-time leader was Umberto Bossi. Find the perfect Lega Nord stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. 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The League thus returned into the opposition, together with its electoral allies of the centre-right coalition. Del centrodestra", "Maroni, il più italiano dei leghisti e il suo esercito di leghisti italiani", "In Veneto la spunta Tosi (per ora). [102] In November, the Emilia-Romagna regional election represented a major step for Salvini's "national project": the LN, which won 19.4% of the vote, was the region's second-largest and resulted far ahead of FI, paving the way for a bid for the leadership of the centre-right. Department of European Studies and Modern Languages, University of Bath, UK, https://doi.org/10.1080/13532944.2011.611221. November 2011; Modern Italy 16(4):437-447; DOI: 10.1080/13532944.2011.611221 For this reason, it has tended to be a multi-ideological catch-all party, especially at its beginnings,[213][214] following what Bossi stated in 1982 to his early followers: "It does not matter how old are you, what your job is and what your political tendency: what matters is that you and we are all Lombard. In the 2020 Venetian regional election Zaia was re-elected for a third consecutive term with 76.8% of the vote, and Liga Veneta fielded three lists, including the League's official one, Zaia's personal list, and Venetian Autonomy List (comprising also Liga Veneta Repubblica),[180] which obtained 16.9%, 44.6% and 2.4% respectively. Salvini seppellisce il vecchio Carroccio e fonda un altro partito", "Lega, Salvini schiera il "partito parallelo" per seppellire il vecchio Carroccio su cui pendono sequestri e confische", "XVIII Legislatura – Deputati e Organi – Modifiche intervenute", "Senato.it – Senato della Repubblica senato.it – Variazioni dei Gruppi parlamentari", "Il piano di Salvini dopo il 5 settembre: Partito unico del centrodestra", "Salvini, il piano per un partito unico del centrodestra e Palazzo Chigi – Affaritaliani.it", "Rivoluzione Salvini: "Nasce il suo nuovo partito". This is also the main difference between the League and most European regionalist parties (South Tyrolean People's Party, Basque Nationalist Party, Republi… [143], Along with the membership recruitment of the "Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania" (LNIP) in the Centre-North, the party launched a parallel membership recruitment in the Centre-South under the name of Lega per Salvini Premier (LSP),[144] practically supplanting NcS. The League, which retrieved 12.9% in Lombardy in the general election, garnered 23.2% (combined result of party list, 13.0% and Maroni's personal list, 10.2%) in the regional election. [83][84] A congress was scheduled for mid December and in accordance to the new rules set for the leadership election five candidates filed their bid to become secretary: Umberto Bossi, Matteo Salvini, Giacomo Stucchi, Manes Bernardini and Roberto Stefanazzi. 4 talking about this. 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The party's strength was confirmed in October by the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections: in Trentino LN's Maurizio Fugatti was elected President with 46.7% of the vote and the party scored 27.1% (despite competition from several autonomist parties), while in South Tyrol it came third with 11.1% (being the most voted in Bolzano and, more generally, among Italian-speakers), leading it to replace the PD as junior partner of the South Tyrolean People's Party in the provincial government coalition. [218][citation needed] As Lega Nord, the party could be seen as a cross-class entity uniting northern Italians, whether working class or petit bourgeois, around a sense of opposition to both the powerful forces of capital and a centralising state based in Rome which redistributes resources towards southern Italy. [244][245] In earlier times, the party campaigned for a stop of the flow of public money in help to big businesses facing crisis as for FIAT[246] and Alitalia. On 3 April, a corruption scandal hit the magic circle and consequently the entire party. Both Zaia and Cota were elected. The third one was led by Roberto Maroni, who tended to be more independent from Bossi and was somewhat critical of the centre-right affiliation of the party; and it included Giancarlo Giorgetti, Attilio Fontana, Matteo Salvini and Flavio Tosi. [289][290][291][292][293][294] In 1992, the League was compared by Le Nouvel Observateur to some national populist parties of the European far-right, including France's National Front, the Freedom Party of Austria and the Vlaams Blok, claiming that "the League rejects any association with neo-fascists but plays on themes of xenophobia regionalism and trivial racism". Combined result of party list (32.0%), Lucia Borgonzoni's personal list (1.7%) and "Youth for the Environment" formed by young. The review is produced by the Nordic Council of Ministers and Nordregio. [352][353] However, the alliance with the centre-right continued at the regional/local level (Veneto, Piedmont, Lombardy and others municipalities) after 2011 and has become a virtually permanent feature of Lega Nord's electoral politics. [140] After some bickering with President Sergio Mattarella,[141][142] Conte's cabinet, which was dubbed by the media as Western European "first all-populist government", was sworn in on 1 June. Lega Nord, which was first launched as an upgrade of Alleanza Nord in December 1989, was officially transformed into a party in February 1991 through the merger of various regional parties, notably including Lega Lombarda and Liga Veneta. In January 2021 Conte's second government fell after losing support from Matteo Renzi's Italia Viva party. Non sono agli ordini di Salvini, "Bossi minaccia di lasciare la Lega: Salvini brutta copia di Renzi. This caused several splinter groups to leave the party, including the Federalist Party (which was actually founded in June 1994) of Gianfranco Miglio, the Federalists and Liberal Democrats of Franco Rocchetta, Lucio Malan and Furio Gubetti[31] and the Federalist Italian League of Luigi Negri and Sergio Cappelli. In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the party was rebranded as Lega (League), without changing its official name in the party's statute. In the event, Bossi was openly contested by many delegates at the congress and there had been an open vote, maroniani would have won. [15], It is quite difficult to define it in the left-right spectrum because it is variously conservative, centrist and left-wing with regard to different issues. Lega Nord rejects all charges of xenophobia, instead claiming that the North is the victim of discrimination and racism. [86], On 7 December, Salvini, endorsed by Maroni and most leading members (including Tosi, who had renounced a bid of his own), trounced Bossi with 82% of the vote in the "primary". Despite misgivings by Bossi's Padanist old guard, the party's power base remains in the North, where its gets most of its support and where it has kept its traditional autonomist outlook, especially in Veneto where Venetian nationalism is on the rise. Curiously enough, those Venetists did not oppose Salvini's "Italian nationalist" turn. Despite this, Bossi decided instead to approach Berlusconi, who was the front-runner in the upcoming 2001 general election. [312] More recently, Hajer Fezzani, a Tunisian-born lapsed Muslim, was appointed local coordinator in Malnate;[313] Souad Sbai, president of the association "Moroccan women in Italy" and former deputy of The People of Freedom, joined the party;[314] and most notably Toni Iwobi, a Nigerian-born long-time party member, was appointed at the head of the party's department on immigration ("Tony will do more for legal immigrants in a month than what Kyenge has done in an entire life", Salvini said during the press conference)[315] and became the first coloured senator of Italy after 2018 general election. The Lega Nord is anti-migrant, anti-euro and anti-EU ... China to overtake US as biggest economy in world by 2028 due to Covid crisis. This was broadly accepted by Venetians, but it was increasingly opposed by key Lombard figures, including Bossi, Maroni and Paolo Grimoldi (leader of Lega Lombarda), who criticised the LN's right-wing turn and its focus on the South while reclaiming the federalist and autonomist identity of the LN. Combined result of party list (17.8%) and Luca Zaia's personal list (23.1%). 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[115][116][117] When the referendums were over, with strong opposition by Bossi, Salvini persuaded the party's federal council to style the party simply as "Lega", including NcS, in the upcoming general election. The League was the only major party to oppose Monti's technocratic government. After the 2016 local elections in which the party ran below expectations in Lombardy (while doing well in Veneto—thanks to Zaia, Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany) and the NcS performed badly,[105][106][107][108] Salvini's political line came under pressure from Bossi, Maroni and Paolo Grimoldi, the new leader of Lega Lombarda. Fico: "Niente salti ne buio, "La Lega prepara la svolta europeista evocata da Giorgetti", "Giancarlo Giorgetti, l'uomo dietro la svolta europeista di Matteo Salvini: ecco come lo ha convinto a dire si a Mario Draghi", "Europeisti per davvero. The matter was made part of a larger investigation by Italian authorities into the League's finances. At the 2013 general election, which saw the rise of the Five Star Movement (M5S), the League won a mere 4.1% of the vote (−4.2pp). [354][355][356] Gian Paolo Gobbo and Luca Zaia, leaders of the party in Veneto, although very loyal to Bossi, tended to be independent from "federal" factions and were engaged in a long power struggle with Flavio Tosi (see Liga Veneta#Factions). That year, the League scored 29.3% of the vote in Veneto, 25.5% in Lombardy, 23.2% in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 18.2% in Piedmont, 13.2% in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, 10.2% in Liguria, 7.2% in Emilia-Romagna, 1.8% in Tuscany, 1.5% in the Marche and 1.0% in Umbria. [316], Lega Nord was originally a member of the European Free Alliance (EFA) and its first two MEPs, Francesco Speroni and Luigi Moretti, joined the Rainbow Group in the European Parliament during the fourth parliamentary term (1989–1994).
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