Verona is a city on the Adige River in Veneto,Italy,with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city municipality in the region and the second largest in northeastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona covers an area of 1,426 km2 (550.58 sq mi) and has a population of 714,310 inhabitants. It is one of the main tourist destinations in northern Italy because of its artistic heritage and several annual fairs and shows as well as the opera season in the Arena,an ancient Roman amphitheater.
Lega Nord,whose complete name is Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania,is a right-wing,federalist,populist and conservative political party in Italy. Its current leader is Matteo Salvini. In the run-up of the 2018 general election,the party was rebranded as Lega,without changing its official name. The party was nonetheless frequently referred to only as "Lega" even before the rebranding,as well as Carroccio.
Damiano Tommasi is an Italian former footballer and current Mayor of Verona.
Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of the Interior from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019. He is Federal Secretary of Italy's Lega Nord party since December 2013. He is a Senator in the Italian Senate since March 2018. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the constituency of North-West Italy from 2004 to 2018.
Liga Veneta,whose complete name is Liga Veneta per Salvini Premier,is a regionalist political party active in Veneto.
Flavio Tosi is an Italian politician who served as the mayor of Verona from 2007 to 2017.
The Politics of Veneto,a Region of Italy takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democracy,whereby the President is the head of government,and of a pluriform multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the Regional Government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the Regional Council.
The Politics of Lombardy,Italy,takes place in a framework of a semi-presidential representative democracy,whereby the President of the Region is the head of government,and of a pluriform multi-party system. Legislative power is vested in the Regional Council of Lombardy,while executive power is exercised by the Regional Government led by the President,who is directly elected by the people. The current Statute,which regulates the functioning of the regional institutions,has been in force since 2008.
Giorgia Meloni is an Italian journalist and politician. She has been the leader of the national-conservative party Brothers of Italy since 2014 and the president of the European Conservatives and Reformists Party since 2020. She has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy since 2006. She served as Minister of Youth in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth government (2008-2011) and was president of Young Action first and then of Young Italy,the youth sections of National Alliance and People of Freedom respectively.
Brothers of Italy is a national-conservative and right-wing populist political party in Italy led by Giorgia Meloni,a member of the Chamber of Deputies and former minister in Silvio Berlusconi's fourth cabinet.
Attilio Fontana is an Italian politician from Varese,Lombardy. He has served as President of Lombardy since 2018 leading a coalition of centre-right parties.
Guido Crosetto is an Italian businessman and politician,co-founder of Brothers of Italy party. He became internationally famous as an anti-EU austerity and pro-Italexit politician because he strongly opposed the Monti Cabinet since November 2011 when at that time almost all politicians,journalists,economists and public opinion were in favor of EU austerity and strongly against Italexit. Crosetto was President of the Brothers of Italy (FdI) from 21 December 2012 to 4 April 2013.
The Venetian regional election of 2015 took place in Veneto on 31 May 2015,as part of a big round of regional elections in Italy. Venetian voters elected their President and their Regional Council,whose members had been reduced to 51,including the President.
The Tosi List for Veneto was a centrist and regionalist political party in Veneto,Italy,named after its leader Flavio Tosi. The party emerged in March 2015 as a split from Liga Veneta–Lega Nord. Its members were instrumental in the establishment of Act! at the Italian level in July 2015,and the LTV was disbanded in July 2017.
Act! is a centre-right political party in Italy,based in Veneto.
Municipal elections were held in Milan on 5 and 19 June 2016 to elect the Mayor and the 48 members of the City Council,as well as the nine presidents and 270 councillors of the nine administrative zones in which the municipality is divided,each one having one president and 30 councillors.
The Venetian Centre-Right,whose complete name is Venetian Centre-Right –Autonomy and Freedom,was a liberal-conservative and autonomist political party in Italy,based in Veneto,which functioned primarily as a group within the Regional Council of Veneto.
Municipal elections were held in Milan on 27 April and 11 May 1997 to elect the Mayor of Milan and the 60 members of the City Council.
Lega,whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier,is a right-wing populist political party in Italy,led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP was founded in December 2017 as the sister party of Lega Nord and as a replacement of Us with Salvini,the LN's previous affiliate in central and southern Italy. The LSP extended the values and policies of the LN from northern Italy to the rest of the country and some political commentators have described it as a parallel party of the LN,with the aim of politically replacing it,also because of its statutory debt of €49 million.
