Liga Veneta
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Venetian League
Liga Veneta |
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| Secretary | Gianantonio Da Re |
| Deputy Secretaries | vacant |
| President | Massimo Bitonci |
| Founded | 9 December 1979 |
| Headquarters | via Panà, 56 35027 Noventa Padovana (Province of Padua) |
| Newspaper | none |
| Membership | unknown |
| Ideology |
Venetian nationalism Regionalism Fiscal federalism Federalism Populism |
| National affiliation | Lega Nord |
| European affiliation | none |
| International affiliation | none |
| Chamber of Deputies |
1 / 630
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| Senate |
2 / 315
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| European Parliament |
2 / 73
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| Regional Council of Veneto |
24 / 51
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| Website | |
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www.veneto.leganord.org www.leganord.veneto.it |
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Liga Veneta (Venetian: Łiga Vèneta, English translation: "Venetian League", LV), whose complete name is Liga Veneta–Lega Nord (Venetian League–Northern League), is a regionalist political party based in Veneto, Italy.
The LV, which combines Venetian nationalism and support for fiscal federalism, was the first party of its kind in Northern Italy, predating Umberto Bossi's Lega Lombarda by four years, and was a founding member of Lega Nord in 1991. Since then, Liga Veneta has been a "national" section of the federal party, thus retaining legal status and some autonomy.
In the 2010 regional election the LV was by far the largest party in Veneto with 35.2% of the vote and LV's Luca Zaia, who was supported also by The People of Freedom, was elected President of Veneto with 60.2%. In the 2015 regional election the LV improved its tally to 40.9% and Zaia, who counted also on the support of some minor parties, was re-elected with 50.1%.
The party's national secretary is Gianantonio Da Re, while its president will be elected soon. Flavio Tosi, mayor of Verona, served as secretary from June 2012 through March 2015, when he was ejected from the federal party and replaced by federal commissioner Gianpaolo Dozzo. This led to one of the largest splits in the party's history: in the 2015 regional election the resulting Tosi List for Veneto and Tosi obtained 7.1% and 11.9%, respectively.
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