Liga Veneta Repubblica
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Liga Veneta Repubblica
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| Secretary | Fabrizio Comencini |
| President | Gian Pietro Piotto |
| Founded | 5 October 1998 |
| Split from | Liga Veneta |
| Headquarters | via Catania, 11 37138 Verona |
| Ideology |
Venetism Regionalism Autonomism Fiscal federalism |
| European affiliation | European Free Alliance |
| International affiliation | none |
| European Parliament group | currently no MEPs |
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| www.ligavenetarepubblica.org | |
Liga Veneta Repubblica (Łiga Vèneta Republica, Venetian Republic League, LVR) is a Venetist political party in Veneto, Italy. The party maintains a mildly separatist position and campaigns for the self-government of Veneto.
The party's founder and long-time leader is Fabrizio Comencini.
The LVR emerged in 1998 as a split from Liga Veneta, the "national section" of Lega Nord in Veneto. Originally named Liga Veneta Repubblica, it changed its name to Veneti d'Europa (after the merger with Future Veneto in 2000) and Liga Fronte Veneto (after the merger with Fronte Marco Polo in 2001). It finally assumed again the original title in 2007.
At its height in 2000 the party included eight regional councillors, three deputies and four senators.
In September 1998, after some clashes with Umberto Bossi, Fabrizio Comencini, national secretary of Liga Veneta (LV) since 1994, tried to lead the party out of the Lega Nord federation. This move was opposed by Bossi's loyalists and he was finally expelled from the party and replaced by Gian Paolo Gobbo as leader of the LV.
Subsequently seven out of eight members of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord's group in the Regional Council of Veneto (Fabrizio Comencini, Ettore Beggiato, Alessio Morosin, Mariangelo Foggiato, Alberto Poirè, Michele Munaretto and Franco Roccon) left the party and launched Liga Veneta Repubblica (LVR), which was initially intended to be the legal continuation and legitimate heir of the LV. Another councillor, Adriano Bertaso of North-East Union, who had earlier left Lega Nord, joined the party for a while. Comencini's followers represented the more Venetist and separatist wing of the LV, while the people who remained in Lega Nord were mainly fiscal federalists and Padanists. The former were also keen on an alliance with the centre-right Pole of Freedoms coalition in Veneto in support of President Giancarlo Galan, with whom Comencini signed a pact in August 1999.
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