Lega Nord Piemont
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Northern League Piedmont
Lega Nord Piemont |
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| Secretary | Riccardo Molinari |
| President | Stefano Allasia |
| Founded | April 1987 |
| Ideology |
Federalism Regionalism |
| National affiliation | Lega Nord |
| Regional Council of Piedmont |
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Lega Nord Piemont (English: Piedmont Northern League, LNP) is a regionalist political party in Italy active in Piedmont, Italy. It is the "national" (hence, regional) section of Lega Nord in the region.
Riccardo Molinari serves as the party's national secretary, while Stefano Allasia is its president.
Roberto Cota, who led the party from 2001 to 2016, was President of Piedmont from 2010 to 2014.
The party was founded in April 1987 by spliters from Piedmontese Union (Union Piemontèisa, UP) led by Gipo Farassino and Mario Borghezio. This group, which took the name of Piedmontese Autonomist Movement (Moviment Autonomista Piemontèis, MAP) and later Autonomist Piedmont (Piemont Autonomista, PA), wanted to make an alliance with Lega Lombarda of Umberto Bossi, in contrast with UP leader Roberto Gremmo.
PA participated in the 1989 European Parliament election as part of the coalition Lega Lombarda – Alleanza Nord. In 1989–1990 it took part to the process of integration of the Northern regionalist parties, ahead of regional elections, and, finally, in February 1991, it was merged into Lega Nord, taking the current name.
In 1994 Farassino fended off a challenge by Oreste Rossi and was narrowly re-elected national secretary.
In the 1996 general election the party obtained its highest and still unparallaled result: 18.2%.
In 1997 Farassino was replaced as secretary by Domenico Comino.
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