Lega Nord leadership election, 2013

Last updated April 17, 2019

The 2013 Lega Nord leadership election took place in November–December 2013.

Lega Nord, whose complete name is Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania, is a right-wing political party in Italy. In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the party was rebranded as Lega (League) without changing its official name in the party's statute. The party was nonetheless frequently referred to only as "Lega" even before the rebranding. The LN is also often referred to as Carroccio by the Italian media.

Background and race

In September 2013 Roberto Maroni, who had been secretary of the party for just about a year, announced he would soon step down from the party's leadership.^[1]^[2]

Roberto Ernesto Maroni is an Italian politician from Varese, former President of Lombardy. He is a leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padania. From 1992–2013 he was a Member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic, always elected in Lombard constituencies. He was Interior Minister of the Italian Republic from 1994–95, and from 2008–11.

A federal congress was scheduled for mid December and five candidates filed their bid to become secretary: Umberto Bossi (the party's founder and former leader), Matteo Salvini, Giacomo Stucchi, Manes Bernardini and Roberto Stefanazzi.^[3] Of these, only Bossi and Salvini gathered the 1,000 necessary signatures by party members to take part to a closed "primary" (open only to a selected public of party members), and Salvini collected four times the signatures gathered by Bossi.^[4]

Umberto Bossi is an Italian politician, former leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padania. He is married to Manuela Marrone and has four sons.

Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of the Interior since 1 June 2018. He has also been Federal Secretary of Northern League since December 2013 and the leader of Us with Salvini since December 2014. He has been 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.

Giacomo Stucchi is an Italian politician, member of the Northern League.

On 7 December Salvini trounced Bossi with 82% of the vote in the "primary".^[5] His election was ratified by the party's federal congress on 15 December.^[6]

Main candidates

Portrait	Name		Details and notes
		Matteo Salvini	Federal Secretary of Lega Lombarda Member of the European Parliament
		Umberto Bossi	Founder and former Federal Secretary of Lega Nord Member of the Chamber of Deputies

First round

Candidate		Status on 30 November
	Matteo Salvini	Admitted to primary election
	Umberto Bossi	Admitted to primary election
	Giacomo Stucchi	Retired
	Manes Bernardini	Retired
	Roberto Stefanazzi	Retired

Source: La Stampa ^[4]

Primary election

Candidate		Votes	%
	Matteo Salvini	8,162	81.7
	Umberto Bossi	1,833	18.3
Total valid votes		9,995	100.0
Invalid votes		121	1.2
Blank votes		105	1.0
Total		10,221	100.0

Turnout: 60.0%Source: Adnkronos ^[5]

Popular vote

Salvini			81.7%
Bossi			18.3%

Results by Regions

Region	Salvini	Bossi
Region
Aosta Valley	80.0	20.0
Emilia-Romagna	66.0	34.0
Friuli-Venezia Giulia	90.0	10.0
Liguria	91.0	9.0
Lombardy	79.0	21.0
Marche	86.0	14.0
Piedmont	83.0	17.0
Tuscany	89.0	11.0
Trentino Alto-Adige	72.0	28.0
Umbria	67.0	33.0
Veneto	84.0	16.0

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References

↑ Gandolfi, Anna (2013-09-02). "L'annuncio di Maroni: lascio la segreteria entro Natale". Milan: Corriere della Sera.
↑ "Maroni abdica. Tosi va verso la Balena Verde. La Lega non si sa". Milan: L'Intraprendente. 2013-09-03.|first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
↑ Zapperi, Cesare (2013-11-12). "Stucchi scende in campo per il fronte anti-Salvini". Milan: Corriere della Sera.
1 2 "Segreteria Lega, in corsa Salvini e Bossi". Turin: La Stampa. 2013-11-28.
1 2 "Adnkronos". www.adnkronos.com. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
↑ "Salvini, primo discorso da leader della Lega «L'euro è un crimine contro l'umanità»" . Retrieved 2 March 2018.line feed character in |title= at position 47 (help)

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[1] Gandolfi, Anna (2013-09-02). "L'annuncio di Maroni: lascio la segreteria entro Natale". Milan: Corriere della Sera.

[2] "Maroni abdica. Tosi va verso la Balena Verde. La Lega non si sa". Milan: L'Intraprendente. 2013-09-03.|first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)

[3] Zapperi, Cesare (2013-11-12). "Stucchi scende in campo per il fronte anti-Salvini". Milan: Corriere della Sera.

[La_Stampa-4] 1 2 "Segreteria Lega, in corsa Salvini e Bossi". Turin: La Stampa. 2013-11-28.

[Adnkronos-5] 1 2 "Adnkronos". www.adnkronos.com. Retrieved 2 March 2018.

[6] "Salvini, primo discorso da leader della Lega «L'euro è un crimine contro l'umanità»" . Retrieved 2 March 2018.line feed character in |title= at position 47 (help)