Lega Autonomia Lombarda

Lega Autonomia Lombarda (Lombard Autonomy League, LAL), also known as Lega per l'Autonomia Lombarda (League for the Lombard Autonomy) and whose extended name was Lega per l'Autonomia–Alleanza Lombarda–Lega Pensionati (League for Autonomy–Lombard Alliance–Pensioners League), was a left-wing regionalist political party in Italy, based in Lombardy.

The party was formed in the run-up of the 1996 general election by the merger of Autonomy Lombard Alliance and Lega Alpina Lumbarda. The former was a 1989 split from Lega Lombarda–Lega Nord led by Angela Bossi and Pierangelo Brivio (wife and husband, sister and brother-in-law to Umberto Bossi respectively), while the latter was the political vehicle of Elidio De Paoli, who had been elected in the Senate both in 1992 and 1994.

In the 1996 election the LAL obtained 1.9% of the vote in Lombardy and none of its candidates was elected.

After a row between De Paoli and the couple Bossi-Brivio, the party was disbanded until 2001, when De Paoli re-organized it from scratch.

In the 2001 general election the party won 5.4% for the Senate in Lombardy and 0.9% nationally, as some disgruntled voters of Lega Nord and many unintended voters gave their vote to the LAL. De Paoli was elected senator with proportional representation, after he had won 11.5% in the constituency of Albino. There he stole many votes from Roberto Calderoli, deputy for Albino since 1994 and most voted leghista in 1996 (51.9%), who was elected with a mere 44.2%.

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