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74-491: MVRA was launched in 1987 by Geppino and Umberto Vecchiato (splinters of Liga Veneta ) and by Giulio Pizzati 's Liga Federativa Veneta (LFV), founded in 1983. The party included also Flaminio De Poli , who had been one of the most outspoken independentist figures in Veneto so far and who had been particularly critical of the alliance between Liga Veneta and Lega Lombarda . In the 1992 general election MVRA gained 1.5% of

148-619: A provincial election Leonardo Muraro was elected President of the province of Treviso and the LV scored 29.2% (combined result of party list, 15.6%, and Zaia's personal list, 13.6%), despite a good result by the rival North-East Project (11.6%). In 2007 Tosi was elected mayor of Verona by a landslide (60.8% against the 33.9% of incumbent Paolo Zanotto ), while in the provincial election of Vicenza Attilio Schneck succeeded to Dal Lago as President (60.0%, largely ahead of her main challenger, Pietro Collareda , who stopped at 17.2%). Both Tosi, who

222-473: A "Tosi List". Furthermore, while Zaia, supported by Salvini, wanted to renovate the party's group in the Regional Council (in order to get rid of some of his ministers who happened to be tosiani ) and have a final say on the compilation of the party's slates, Tosi, who defended the position of long-time regional councillors and ministers, claimed his authority and the autonomy of the LV in relation to

296-467: A MEP and former leader, was expelled from the party, of which he had been a member for 42 years, after having frequently criticised Salvini and finally offended him. In the 2024 European Parliament election the party was reduced to 13.2%. Liga Veneta was conceived by Franco Rocchetta and others in the late 1970s. During its first official meeting in Recoaro on 9 December 1979, Achille Tramarin , who

370-493: A broader support than Tosi and was unanimously chosen by the council. In the election Zaia was elected President of Veneto by a landslide, with 60.2% of the vote against 29.1% of his foremost opponent, Giuseppe Bortolussi of the Democratic Party (PD). The election was a triumph for the LV, which was by far the largest party in the region with 35.2% of the vote, up from 14.7% of five years before, and got 20 seats in

444-589: A comeback in the 1960s, when the Venetian Regionalist Autonomous Movement (MARV) campaigned for the institution of the ordinary regions (including Veneto), prefigured by the Constitution of Italy . The ordinary regions were finally instituted in 1970. Since then, Veneto experienced a dramatic economic boom due to a new production model based on small enterprises. The high burden of taxes and bureaucracy, associated with

518-533: A general election: with 10.1% of the vote, the party, present only in Northern Italy , became the fourth largest of the country. Comencini's Liga Veneta was the strongest national section of the League: it gained 29.3% of the vote in Veneto, 19 deputies and 9 senators, mostly elected in single-seat constituencies, in which the party, favoured by split-ticket voting , gained a total 32.8% of the vote. In 1994

592-557: A mere 0.2% of the vote and, since then, Rocchetta and Marin have had the party in their hands. That of the LVS was only one of several splits occurred over the decade. The first had been Giulio Pizzati 's Liga Federativa Veneta in 1983, while another occurred in 1987: some hardliners, led by Luigi Faccia and Flavio Contin , left the party and launched the Venetian Most Serene Government , which would organise

666-503: A national congress, Gianantonio Da Re , a long-time lighista from the province of Treviso, affiliate of Gobbo and now close to Zaia, was elected national secretary. Da Re's election represented a return to normality after the traumatic leadership and ousting of Tosi. Subsequently, Bitonci was appointed national president by the party's national council and, contextually, Fontana was appointed deputy federal secretary by Salvini. After Salvini's re-election as LN federal secretary in

740-530: A separate party in January 2014 and welcomed a third councillor in February 2015. In the 2013 municipal elections the party lost the mayorship of Treviso after 19 years, as Giancarlo Gentilini surrendered to Democrat Giovanni Manildo 55.5% to 44.5%. However, one year later, in the 2014 municipal elections Bitonci was elected mayor of the much bigger city of Padua , a Democratic stronghold, by defeating

814-466: A stronghold of the left, with Francesca Zaccariotto , and Belluno with Gianpaolo Bottacin . In December 2009 The People of Freedom (PdL) determined that the coalition candidate in the 2010 regional election would be a leghista . Subsequently, the national council of Liga Veneta nominated Zaia for President. Tosi, who, as party president, presided the council, tried to be himself the candidate, and others proposed instead Manzato. However, Zaia had

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888-605: Is Lorenzo Fontana , from the party's conservative wing, who has been the President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies since 2022. The origins of Venetian identity and Venetian nationalism lie in the Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic, which lasted eleven centuries from 697 to 1797, being one of the first modern republics of the world. After Veneto's annexation by Italy in 1866 and especially right after World War I calls for Venetian autonomy came from both left and right of

962-495: Is a regionalist political party active in Veneto . The LV, whose ideology combines Venetian nationalism and support for fiscal federalism , was established in 1979 under the slogan "farther from Rome , closer to Europe ", and was the first party of its kind in northern Italy , predating Umberto Bossi 's Lega Lombarda by five years. The LV was one of the founding "national" sections of Lega Nord (LN) in 1991 and has been

1036-799: The 1983 general election the LV gained 4.3% in Veneto: Tramarin was elected to the Chamber of Deputies and Graziano Girardi to the Senate . In the Pedemontana , the area of the Padanian-Venetian Plain at the feet of the Venetian Prealps , the LV became the second largest party after then-dominant Christian Democracy (DC). This party would be mostly damaged from the rise of the LV as both parties concurred for

1110-499: The 1999 provincial elections the party lost the provinces of Padua and Verona. By 2000 the party started to recover from the schism of 1998 and took 12.0% of the vote in the 2000 regional election (the combined score of Veneti d'Europa and Fronte Marco Polo , another split, was 3.7%), re-joining after five years the regional government. In the 2001 general election the LV won a mere 10.2% in Veneto, with 9 deputies and 4 senators elected, all in single-seat constituencies, thanks to

1184-413: The 2011 provincial election of Treviso Muraro was easily re-elected president. The LV won 40.8% of the vote (combined result of party list, 29.6%, and Muraro's personal list, 11.4%), which was an 11.6% gain since the previous provincial election in 2006, but also a 7.7% loss from the 2010 regional election. In late 2011, after the fall of Berlusconi's government , Lega Nord abandoned the alliance with

1258-440: The 2015 regional election the LV, which fielded also a "Zaia list" improved its tally to 40.9% and Zaia, who counted also on the support of some minor parties, was re-elected with 50.1%. In the 2020 regional election the LV's two lists improved again their tally to 61.5% and Zaia was re-elected by a landslide 76.8% of the vote. While Zaia is the party's leading figure, Alberto Stefani serves as secretary. Another leading member

1332-508: The 2017 leadership election (with overwhelming support from Venetians, still grateful for Tosi's ousting), at the party's federal congress on 21 May 2017 three LV members (Fontana, Marcato and Erik Pretto ) were elected to the federal council. In the 2018 general election the party obtained 32.2% of the vote, its best result ever in a general election, and, under a new electoral law that had re-introduced single-seat constituencies, had 23 deputies (including Bitonci, who had been defeated in

1406-804: The Marche and 26.2% in Lazio , while it was much weaker in Piedmont and in Southern Italy . The PPI was divided mainly into two factions: the "Christian Democrats" were favourable to an accord with the Socialists, while the "Moderate Clericalists" supported an alliance with the liberal parties , which eventually happened. The latter included Alcide De Gasperi . Some Populars took part in Benito Mussolini 's first government in 1922, leading

1480-763: The St Mark's Campanile 's "assault" in 1997 (see Venetian nationalism ). However, the two most damaging splits were those of the Union of the Venetian People (UPV), formed by Beggiato (who was joined by Tramarin and Girardi) and that of the Veneto Autonomous Region Movement (MVRA). After the splits, the only counterweight to Rocchetta–Marin within the LV was thus represented by the Treviso wing, which then started to gain influence, under

1554-577: The rally of Pontida . In the meantime, former leader Flavio Tosi , who had merged his Tosi List for Veneto into Forza Italia in June 2022 and had become that party's regional coordinator in March 2023, started wooing disgruntled LV members into Forza Italia: most notably, splinters have included former Vice President of Veneto Gianluca Forcolin , former senator Gianpaolo Vallardi and regional councillor Fabrizio Boron . In March 2024 Gianantonio Da Re ,

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1628-565: The Catholic Church, and welfare legislation. The Italian People's Party was cofounded in 1919 by Luigi Sturzo , a Sicilian Catholic priest . The PPI was backed by Pope Benedict XV to oppose the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). The party supported various social reforms, including the foundations of a welfare state , women's suffrage and proportional representation voting. In the 1919 general election ,

1702-602: The Country", and appointed Dozzo commissioner for the LV. Consequently, Tosi decided to run for President against Zaia. Besides Baggio and Toscani, four more regional councillors (Stival, regional minister of Venetian Identity, and Giuseppe Stoppato , who formed, along with former Democrat Diego Bottacin , a group named " Toward North –Venetian People", Conte, regional minister of the Environment, and Andrea Bassi ), three deputies, three senators and Muraro (president of

1776-647: The Fascists did and saw too late how necessary it was in the fight for democracy in Italy. The party's ideological sources were principally to be found in Catholic social teaching , the Christian democratic doctrines developed from the 19th century and on (see Christian democracy ), the political thought of Romolo Murri and Luigi Sturzo . The Papal encyclical , Rerum novarum (1891) of Pope Leo XIII , offered

1850-507: The LN in Veneto. Bossi was elected federal secretary and Rocchetta federal president. Thanks to the federal structure of the LN and to its ideology (according to which Padania is a country formed of different nations: Veneto, Lombardy , Piedmont , etc.), the LV retained much of its autonomy, but occasionally tensions occurred with "the Lombards", causing splits. In the 1992 general election ,

1924-577: The LN scored 8.7% throughout Italy and the LV won 17.8% of the vote in Veneto and was second only to the DC, returning to the Chamber and the Senate after five years, this time with several elects. The UPV and the MVRA both won 1.5% of the vote, while Lega Autonomia Veneta (LAV), formed by the former Socialist mayor of Venice Mario Rigo , got 4.7% of the vote. The Venetist movement, divided as ever, however gained

1998-511: The LV took part in the process of federating the northern regionalist parties, including the LL, Autonomist Piedmont , Ligurian Union , Emilia-Romagna League and Tuscan Alliance . In the 1990 regional election the LV and the UPV scored 5.9% and 1.9%, respectively. In the 1991 local elections, the UPV surpassed the LV. Some attempts to merge the two parties into one failed, but from that point, thanks to

2072-458: The LV was also part of the regional government for the first time, with Gobbo as Vice President. In July 1994 Marin was replaced by Fabrizio Comencini as national secretary of the party, while Gobbo was elected national president. Shortly after, in September, Rocchetta and Marin left the party in disagreement with Bossi and the new Venetian leadership, founding Liga Nathion Veneta. Rocchetta

2146-519: The LV's national council elected Luca Baggio , an ally of Tosi, as national president. Zaia warned Tosi that if he were not to be a unifying leader a split might occur. On 1 July 2012 Maroni was elected federal secretary during a federal congress presided by Zaia. The Venetian delegates elected also four members to the federal council: Finozzi ( tosiano ), Bitonci (Venetist, anti-Tosi), Stival (Venetist, tosiano ) and Dal Lago (Venetist, independent). A few days later Maroni appointed Federico Caner , who

2220-535: The PdL. Perceiving that the party was entering a crisis, Giuseppe Covre (a former mayor of Oderzo and MP) and Marzio Favero (mayor of Montebelluna and philosopher) proposed a "Manifesto for the League which will be". In its call for a "cultural revolution" and for a bottom-up restructuring of the party, the document was interpreted as a call for a new leadership, both at national and federal level. All throughout 2011

2294-579: The Region and minister of Agriculture and Tosi minister of Health. In the 2006 general election however, the party scored 11.1% and got elected 5 deputies and 3 senators. It was the worst result in terms of elected members in the Italian Parliament since 1987, due to the narrow victory of the centre-left, which won the majority-premium for the Chamber of Deputies and to the presence of North-East Project (2.7%) and of Liga Fronte Veneto (0.7%). In

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2368-499: The Regional Council, up from 11. Zaia was also the most voted President of Veneto since direct elections were introduced in 1995. After the election, Zaia appointed a cabinet including six party members, a majority of whom were tosiani : Roberto Ciambetti (Budget and Local Government), Luca Coletto (Health), Maurizio Conte (Environment), Marino Finozzi (Tourism and International Trade), Franco Manzato (Agriculture) and Daniele Stival (Venetian Identity and Civil Protection). In

2442-686: The Venetian Philological Society who had been talking of a "Venetian league" since 1968. The party constitution, modelled on those of the Valdostan Union and the Radical Party , was officially signed by 14 founding members on 16 January 1980 in Padua and Achille Tramarin was elected national secretary. In December 1979, during the party's first informal congress, named "farther from Rome , closer to Europe ",

2516-535: The alliance with Forza Italia and the New Centre-Right (the two parties emerged from the break-up of the PdL) and to reinforce it with the creation of a "Zaia List", Tosi wanted the party to run with the sole support of the "Zaia List" and a "Tosi List", while Matteo Salvini , who succeeded to Maroni as federal secretary in 2013, kept an open mind only on Forza Italia and opposed, along with Zaia, any notion of

2590-510: The alliance with Forza Italia within the House of Freedoms coalition. After the election, Dozzo and Stefani joined Berlusconi II Cabinet as undersecretaries of Agriculture and Industry, respectively. In the 2002 provincial elections the party won for the second time in a row in Vicenza and Treviso . The province of Treviso confirmed itself as the most- leghista province of Italy and Zaia

2664-460: The alliance with Bossi, LV's rise would be unstoppable. In February 1991, the LV finally was merged with the five parties of the LL–AN alliance and newly-formed parties in the northern autonomous regions and provinces (the future Lega Vallée d'Aoste , Lega Alto Adige Südtirol , Lega Trentino , Lega Friuli and Lega Trieste ) into Lega Nord (LN). Since then, the LV has been the "national" section of

2738-415: The campaign and selection of candidates. Most provincial leaders resigned or were deposed by Tosi, who appointed loyalists. In April the national council of LV, led by Tosi, expelled 35 party members (mostly Venetists or old-guard bossiani ), including two regional councillors and a former deputy. In August the dissidents, led by Corrado Callegari , a former deputy, formed Veneto First , which became

2812-537: The early 2017 municipal election in Padua ) and 9 senators elected. After months of negotiations, the LN formed a coalition government with the Five Star Movement (M5S), under Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte . Two LV members were appointed ministers in the government : Erika Stefani at Regional Affairs and Autonomies, and Lorenzo Fontana at Family and Disability. In the 2019 European Parliament election

2886-700: The election, Zaia unveiled his second government , composed of ten ministers, including nine Lighisti : Gianluca Forcolin (Vice President, Budget and Local Government), Luca Coletto (Health and Social Programs), Roberto Marcato (Economic Development and Energy), Elisa De Berti (Publick Works, Infrastructures and Transports), Giuseppe Pan (Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing), Manuela Lanzarin (Social Affairs), Federico Caner (EU Programs, Tourism and International Trade), Gianpaolo Bottacin (Environment and Civil Protection) and Cristiano Corazzari (Culture, City Planning and Security); Elena Donazzan (Education and Labour) represented Forza Italia . In February 2015, during

2960-561: The faction around Tosi, close to Roberto Maroni at the federal level, won most provincial congresses in Veneto, including that of Treviso. In early April 2012 a corruption scandal hit the "magic circle" around Bossi, who resigned from federal secretary of Lega Nord after 21 years. This had consequences also in Veneto: a national congress was scheduled for 2–3 June 2012 and, after fourteen years on top, Gobbo decided to step down from secretary. Tosi, just re-elected mayor of Verona with 57.4% of

3034-534: The federal party. In early March the struggle between Tosi and Zaia–Salvini led the former to threaten a run in competition with Zaia in the regional election and Lega Nord's federal council to appoint Dozzo as a mediator between Tosi and Zaia. The internal clashes led three regional councillors to quit the party in the Regional Council: Vittorino Cenci joined Veneto First, while LV's president Baggio and Matteo Toscani launched

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3108-780: The first in which the PPI took part, the party won 20.5% of the vote and 100 seats in the Chamber of Deputies , a result virtually confirmed in 1921 . The PPI was the second largest Italian political party after the PSI at the time. Its heartlands were interior Veneto and north-western Lombardy . In 1919 the party won 42.6% in Veneto (49.4% in Vicenza ), 30.1% in Lombardy (64.3% in Bergamo ), 24.4% in Friuli-Venezia Giulia , 27.3% in

3182-447: The fourth time national secretary, while Tosi replaced Dal Lago as national president. Tosi appeared to be also the standard-bearer of the party in view of the 2010 regional election, along with Zaia. In the 2009 European Parliament election the LV confirmed its strength, by gaining 28.4% and three MEPs: Lorenzo Fontana , a rising star from Verona, Giancarlo Scottà and Mara Bizzotto . The party also won two more provinces, Venice ,

3256-464: The increasing frustration with the inefficient and overstaffed Italian government in Rome, that continued to channel northern taxes as massive development aid to the corrupt and backward southern regions, was the key element, along with linguistic and historical claims, that led to the formation of Liga Veneta. Liga Veneta was promoted in 1978 by Franco Rocchetta , a Venetian philologist and president of

3330-440: The incumbent Ivo Rossi 53.5% to 46.5%. The party thus governed two of the three largest cities of Veneto, Verona and Padua. Finally, in the 2014 European Parliament election the LV gained 15.2% and two MEPs, Tosi (who showed his popular support once for all and was soon replaced by Fontana) and Bizzotto. In the run-up of the 2015 regional election the party was quite divided on alliances and strategies. Zaia wanted to continue

3404-409: The leadership of Gian Paolo Gobbo and Mauro Michielon . In the next elections, the LV and the UPV had similar showings. Rocchetta and Marin managed to forge an alliance with Umberto Bossi 's Lega Lombarda (LL) for the 1989 European Parliament election , Lega Lombarda – Alleanza Nord , in which the LV won a mere 1.7% of the vote and no seats. In 1989–1990, ahead of the 1990 regional elections ,

3478-473: The opening speech recited: "Today for Venetians the moment has come, after 113 years of Italian unitary colonisation, to take their natural and human resources back, to fight against the wild exploitation that has brought emigration, pollution, and rooting out from their culture". European integration through the European Union (EU) was seen as an opportunity to give back to Veneto its autonomy. In

3552-426: The party in 1994 after a power struggle and has since become a bitter critic of his former colleagues in the name of pure Venetian nationalism , conceived the LV as a libertarian , secular and Europeanist party. The promotion the re-discovery the Republic of Venice 's heritage, traditions, culture, and especially Venetian language , and opposition to the displacement of Mafia inmates in Veneto were key goals of

3626-429: The party reached 49.9% of the vote. The regional election was, even more, a triumph for Zaia, who was re-elected for a third conservative term with 76.8% of the vote. Liga Veneta fielded three lists, including the official one, Zaia's personal list and the "Venetian Autonomy List" (comprising also Liga Veneta Repubblica ), which obtained 16.9%, 44.6% and 2.4%, respectively. The party, with 33 seats (plus one obtained by

3700-581: The party since its foundation. Italian People%27s Party (1919) The Italian People's Party ( Italian : Partito Popolare Italiano , PPI ), also translated as Italian Popular Party , was a Christian-democratic political party in Italy inspired by Catholic social teaching . It was active in the 1920s, but fell apart because it was deeply split between the pro- and anti-fascist elements. Its platform called for an elective Senate, proportional representation, corporatism, agrarian reform, women's suffrage, political decentralisation, independence of

3774-731: The party to a division between opponents of Mussolini and those who supported him. The latter eventually joined the National Fascist Party . Most of the PPI members later took part in Christian Democracy . John Molony argues that, "In the end, "the Italian fascist state and the Vatican worked hand in hand to help destroy the People's Party." He adds that Liberals and the Socialists hated the PPI almost as much as

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3848-438: The party won the mayorship of Treviso with Giancarlo Gentilini , and a year later it gained control of three provinces: Padua with Renzo Sacco , Verona with Antonio Borghesi and Treviso with Giovanni Mazzonetto . In 1997 the party won also in the province of Vicenza with Manuela Dal Lago , while Luca Zaia was elected President of the province of Treviso, replacing Mazzonetto, in 1998 . Also in 1998 , Gentilini

3922-618: The party's old guard from the province of Treviso, emerged as an alternative opposition candidate. At the congress, outgoing federal commissioner Alberto Stefani , a loyalist of Salvini, was thus elected secretary with 64.3% of the vote against Manzato's 35.7%, possibly with Zaia's silent support. The congress' result did not silence internal critics, like regional minister Federico Caner and MEP Gianantonio Da Re , who opposed Salvini's focus on southern Italy and his perceived Euroscepticism. Additionally, Caner, along with his colleagues Gianpaolo Bottacin and Roberto Marcato, did not go on stage at

3996-561: The political spectrum. Early Venetists included Guido Bergamo , a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Italian Republican Party , and Italico Corradino Cappellotto , a member of the Chamber for the Italian People's Party who launched the first full-fledged Venetist party, Lion of Saint Mark , which obtained 6.1% of the vote in the province of Treviso in the 1921 general election . Venetist ideas made

4070-433: The pro-Tosi "Venetian Commitment". All three disagreed with a perceived party's rightward shift under Salvini, while Cenci contested also Tosi and the party's engagement in southern politics through Us with Salvini (NcS). After a long struggle between Tosi and Salvini, the latter acknowledged the former's relinquishment from party member, on the grounds that Tosi had refused to ditch his think tank, named "Let's Rebuild

4144-482: The province of Treviso), followed Tosi, while two factional leaders, Finozzi (regional minister of Tourism and International Trade) and Bizzotto MEP , chose not to. In the meantime, Venetian Agreement changed its name into " Tosi List for Veneto " (LTV). The election was a triumph for Zaia, who was re-elected with 50.1% of the vote, and Liga Veneta, which obtained 40.9% of the vote (combined result of official party list, 17.8%, and Zaia's personal list, 23.1%). Tosi and

4218-426: The regional section of Lega per Salvini Premier (LSP) in Veneto since 2020. Despite its long alignment with Lega Nord and Lega, the LV has its ideological peculiarities and is seen as more centrist. 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

4292-416: The regional vote. By 2000 the party was merged into Liga Veneta Repubblica (LVR). This article about a political party in Italy is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Liga Veneta Liga Veneta ( Venetian : Łiga Vèneta ; English: Venetian League ; abbr. LV ), whose complete name is Liga Veneta per Salvini Premier (English: Venetian League for Salvini Premier ),

4366-468: The support of about a quarter of Venetian voters. In the 1994 general election the LV won 21.6% of the vote in Veneto (the LAV took 3.2%) and three of its members joined Berlusconi I Cabinet : Rocchetta was undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, Mariella Mazzetto of Education and Giovanni Meo Zilio (a former Socialist partisan during Italian resistance ), of University and Research. Between 1994 and 1995

4440-554: The support of the middle class. DC regional leader Antonio Bisaglia had proposed a regional party modelled on the Christian Social Union in Bavaria , but opposition from Rome and his sudden death stopped the plan. However, a few months later, a power struggle took place within the LV and the winner was Rocchetta, who had been behind the scenes up to that moment, but was disappointed for his missed election. Tramarin

4514-865: The third list), had thus far more than 50% of the seats in the Regional Council. After the election, Zaia unveiled his third government , composed of eight ministers, including seven Lighisti : Elisa De Berti (Vice President, Legal Affairs, Public Works, Infrastructures and Transports), Francesco Calzavara (Planning, Budget, Patrimony and Local Government), Manuela Lanzarin (Health, Social Affairs and Social Programs), Roberto Marcato (Economic Development, Energy and Special Status for Venice), Federico Caner (EU Programs, Agriculture, Tourism and International Trade), Gianpaolo Bottacin (Environment, Climate and Civil Protection), Cristiano Corazzari (Culture, City Planning, Security, Hunting and Fishing); Elena Donazzan (Education, Formation, Labour and Equal Opportunities) represented Brothers of Italy . LV's Roberto Ciambetti

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4588-505: The two lists connected to the LTV won 11.9% and 7.1%, respectively, while other regionalist parties ( Independence We Veneto , Venetian Independence , North-East Union , Autonomous Veneto Project and Veneto Confederal State) gained another 6.3% in what was the best result ever for both Venetist parties, which controlled the majority of the Regional Council for the first time, and Liga Veneta itself, which obtained 24 seats out of 51 in it. After

4662-423: The vote (three times his closest opponent Michele Bertucco , who got a mere 22.8%), started his bid for the party's national leadership. Massimo Bitonci , a darling of Venetists and long-time rival of Tosi, was chosen as joint candidate by Venetists and Gobbo's loyalists. On 3 June 2012 Tosi was elected secretary with 57% of the vote (236 delegates out of 414), while Bitonci had 43% (178 delegates). On 9 June

4736-471: Was 35.4%. Subsequently, Zaia became minister of Agriculture and Martini undersecretary of Health in Berlusconi IV Cabinet . Federico Bricolo became floor leader of Lega Nord in the Senate. Zaia and Martini were thus replaced in the regional government by Franco Manzato and Sandro Sandri , respectively. In July 2008 the party held its national congress in Padua. Gobbo was re-elected for

4810-411: Was also elected mayor of Treviso. In the 2005 regional election the LV gained 14.7% of the vote, despite the presence of other two Venetist parties ( North-East Project and Liga Fronte Veneto , 5.4% and 1.2% respectively), and was decisive for the third re-election of Giancarlo Galan as President of Veneto . After the election, the LV joined the third Galan government , with Zaia Vice President of

4884-410: Was re-elected President of the Regional Council. In the 2022 general election the party was reduced to 14.5% of the vote (–17.7pp from 2018), fueling internal conflicts. In the run-up of the regional congress, to be held in June 2023, Roberto Marcato led the challenge of the party's traditional wing. However, Marcato retired from the race when Franco Manzato , a centrist figure representing mainly

4958-494: Was re-elected Provincial President with more than 40% in the first round and with almost 70% in the run-off, although he had refused the support of Lega Nord's allies in Rome and Venice, Forza Italia and National Alliance . Also in 2002 LV's Luciano Gasperini was elected federal president of Lega Nord. In a party congress in Vicenza , Gobbo was re-elected national secretary and Dal Lago was elected national president. In 2003 Gobbo

5032-417: Was re-elected mayor of Treviso. In 1998 Comencini left the party over disagreements with Bossi and formed a brand-new Venetist party named Liga Veneta Repubblica (then Veneti d'Europa ). Seven regional councillors out of nine followed Comencini into the new party, while Gobbo took over as national secretary of the LV, along with a new national president, Giuseppe Ceccato (who left the party in 1999). In

5106-414: Was replaced as national secretary by Marilena Marin , Rocchetta's future wife, and, expelled by Marin, would form the splinter Liga Veneta Serenissima (LVS) in 1984. In the 1984 European Parliament election the LV gained 3.3% in Veneto, not enough to win any seats. In the 1985 regional election the party obtained 3.7% and two regional councillors: Ettore Beggiato and Rocchetta. Tramarin's LVS won

5180-409: Was replaced as regional minister of Health by Francesca Martini . In the 2008 general election the LV won a surprising 27.1% in Veneto, its best result since the 1996 election , getting 16 deputies and 7 senators elected. Meanwhile, Gobbo was re-elected mayor of Treviso with 50.4% of the vote, twice the score of his main opponent. The combined result of the LV and Giancarlo Gentilini's personal list

5254-410: Was replaced by Stefano Stefani , a leading member of the LV, as federal president of Lega Nord in February 1995. The exit of Rocchetta and Marin made possible the comeback of Beggiato into the party. Thanks to this the LV did not suffer a major setback in the 1995 regional election : 17.4% and 9 regional councillors elected. In the 1996 general election Bossi led Lega Nord to its strongest showing in

5328-499: Was supported by both Tosi and Gobbo, as his vicar. As early as in May 2013 Caner was replaced by Tosi. At the 2013 general election the LV stopped at 10.5%, almost a record low, resulting in just 5 deputies and 5 senators. Tosi considered this a consequence of the renewed alliance with the PdL (instrumental to Maroni's election as President of Lombardy ), while many party bigwigs, including Zaia, criticised his leadership, management of

5402-632: Was the second leghista to become mayor of a big city after Marco Formentini in Milan between 1993 and 1997, and Schneck were supported by the House of Freedoms coalition, but the LV had an excellent result in both races: in Vicenza it garnered 19.0% of the vote, while in Verona it ranked first among the parties with 28.4% (combined score of party list, 12.0%, and Tosi's personal list, 16.4%). In June 2007, Tosi

5476-444: Was then elected secretary, gave a speech titled Venetian autonomy and Europe : "Today for Venetians the moment has come, after 113 years of Italian unitary colonisation, to take their natural and human resources back, to fight against the wild exploitation that brought poverty, emigration, pollution and uprooting from their culture". European integration was seen as an opportunity to give Veneto its autonomy back. Rocchetta, who left

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