Ligurian Independence Movement
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Ligurian Independence Movement
Movimento Indipendentista Ligure |
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| President | Vincenzo Matteucci |
| Secretary | Franco Bampi |
| Environment responsible | Flavio Gaggero |
| Founded | 14 January 2001 |
| Headquarters | Via XX Settembre 21/7 16121 Genoa |
| Ideology | Ligurian independence |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| European Parliament group | None |
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| http://www.mil2002.org | |
The Ligurian Independence Movement (Italian: Movimento Indipendentista Ligure, M.I.L.) is a regional political party in Italy.
It was founded in Genoa on 14 January 2001 by a group of citizens, some of them from the Ligurian Lega Nord, belonging to different social classes. Their intent is to recognize the rights to independence from Italian Republic of the populations living in the territory of the former Republic of Genoa. Such Republic became the Ligurian Republic in 1797, it was incorporated in French Empire by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805, and finally it was annexed to the Kingdom of Sardinia after Congress of Vienna in 1815.
The movement considers that the annexation of the Republic (reconstituted for a brief period in the 1815) to the Kingdom of Sardinia is illegal. In fact, such cancellation would be made without any ratification by the lawful outgoing government, and the following annexation would occur in the absence of any pronouncement of the population, unlike the subsequent annexations of territories that led to the formation of the Kingdom of Italy, sanctioned by popular vote.
The movement declares itself cross-party because it considers independence a value of all the people, without care of the party in which everyone can identify.
The movement does not define itself secessionist, because it does not recognize the legitimacy of the annexation to the Kingdom of Sardinia before, and Kingdom of Italy. According to this assumption, Liguria would keep the right to its independence. The claim is based on the principle that the rights of peoples are inalienable and on the following reasons:
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