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The 2017 Lega Nord leadership election took place on 14 May 2017. [1]
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.
Under the leadership of Matteo Salvini, who was elected in the 2013 leadership election, the party embraced a very critical view of the European Union, [2] especially of the Euro, which he described a "crime against mankind". [3] Ahead of 2014 European Parliament election, Salvini started to cooperate with Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Front, and Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom. [4] [5] [6] All this was criticised by LN founder Umberto Bossi, who re-called his left-wing roots, [7] [8] and Mayor of Verona Flavio Tosi, who represented the party's centrist wing and defended the Euro. [9] In March 2015, after a long struggle with Luca Zaia and Salvini, Tosi was ejected from the party. In May 2015 Zaia was re-elected President of Veneto for a second term in the regional election with a landslide.
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.
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 28 member states that are located primarily in Europe. It has an area of 4,475,757 km2 (1,728,099 sq mi) and an estimated population of about 513 million. The EU has developed an internal single market through a standardised system of laws that apply in all member states in those matters, and only those matters, where members have agreed to act as one. EU policies aim to ensure the free movement of people, goods, services and capital within the internal market, enact legislation in justice and home affairs and maintain common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries and regional development. For travel within the Schengen Area, passport controls have been abolished. A monetary union was established in 1999 and came into full force in 2002 and is composed of 19 EU member states which use the euro currency.
In the run-up of the 2017 leadership election Salvini was focused on becoming the leader of the centre-right [10] [11] and, possibly, changing the LN's name by ditching "North". [12] [13] [14] Paolo Grimoldi, the regional secretary of Lega Nord for Lombardy, chose not to run (and Roberto Maroni, the President of Lombardy Region, maintained his neutrality), [15] [16] but Giovanni Fava, Lombard minister of Agriculture in the old social-democratic tradition, announced his bid aiming at representing the federalist/autonomist/separatist wings of the party. Gianluca Pini, President of Lega Nord Romagna, supported Fava: [17] note that Fava's best results in this LN primary (over 40% but under 45%) are only in Romagna.
Lega Lombarda, whose complete name is Lega Lombarda–Lega Nord, is a regionalist political party active in Lombardy. It is one of the national sections of Lega Nord (LN) and, along with Liga Veneta, forms the bulk of the federal party, which has been led by Lombards since its foundation.
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.
Giovanni Fava, who is anti-prohibition of drugs, pro-civil unions for same-sex couples, pro-United States, pro-NATO, and anti-National Front ("[it] is one of the most centralist and conservative blocs in Europe, what has it to do with us?"), recalled an old LN activist saying "let's hurry up in making Padania, that I want to return voting the left" and added "this was the League and it has to be like this anew". [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] Salvini accused Fava to be "too friend of Berlusconi" and specially of "wanting to submit the LN to Forza Italia".
The prohibition of drugs through sumptuary legislation or religious law is a common means of attempting to prevent the recreational use of certain intoxicating substances.
A civil union is a legally recognized arrangement similar to marriage, created primarily as a means to provide recognition in law for same-sex couples. Civil unions grant most or all of the rights of marriage except the title itself. Around the world, developed democracies began establishing civil unions in the late 1990s, often developing them from less formal domestic partnerships, which grant only some of the rights of marriage. In the majority of countries that established these unions in laws, they have since been either supplemented or replaced by same-sex marriage. Civil unions are viewed by LGBT rights campaigners as a "first step" towards establishing same-sex marriage, as civil unions are viewed by supporters of LGBT rights as a "separate but equal" or "second class" status. While civil unions are often established for both opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples, in a number of countries they are available to same-sex couples only.
A same-sex relationship is a relationship between persons of the same sex and can take many forms, from romantic and sexual, to non-romantic homosocially-close relationships. The term is primarily associated with gay and lesbian relationships. Same-sex marriage refers to the institutionalized recognition of such relationships in the form of a marriage; civil unions may exist in countries where same-sex marriage does not.
This is a closed primary where all ordinary and militant members with at least 12 months of membership are reserved for 31 December 2016 [24] and they also have the right to sign in support of secretarial nominations, which they need a minimum of 1000 signatures to be able to apply. Each candidate must be registered for at least 10 years as ordinary and militant members of LN: the only candidates for the post of Federal Secretary are those of Matteo Salvini and Giovanni Fava, both of which exceed the minimum of 1000 signatures (precisely [25] 6925 for Salvini and 1025 for Fava). Umberto Bossi, the founder of LN, support Giovanni Fava and his plan of approach to Forza Italia and Silvio Berlusconi from which the LN has gradually gone away (in favor of Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy) during Salvini's leadership since the previous primary election of December 2013. On 14 May Salvini was re-elected secretary by a landslide. [26] His re-election was ratified by the party's federal congress on 21 May in Parma. [27]
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.
Forza Italia was a centre-right political party in Italy with liberal-conservative, Christian-democratic, liberal, social-democratic and populist tendencies. Its leader was Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy.
Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian media tycoon and politician who has served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments.
| Portrait | Name | Details and notes | Refs | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Matteo Salvini |
| [28] [29] | |
 | Giovanni Fava |
| [30] [31] | |
| Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matteo Salvini | 6,636 | 82.70% | |
| Giovanni Fava | 1,388 | 17.30% | |
| Total | 8,024 | 100.0 | |
| Region | Salvini | Fava |
|---|---|---|
| Aosta Valley | 100.0 | 0.0 |
| Emilia-Romagna | 68.0 | 33.0 |
| Friuli-Venezia Giulia | 87.0 | 13.0 |
| Liguria | 95.0 | 5.0 |
| Lombardy | 78.0 | 22.0 |
| Marche | 83.0 | 17.0 |
| Piedmont | 87.0 | 13.0 |
| Tuscany | 83.0 | 17.0 |
| Trentino Alto-Adige | 75.0 | 25.0 |
| Umbria | 95.0 | 5.0 |
| Veneto | 91.0 | 9.0 |
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Padanian nationalism is an ideology and a regionalist movement demanding more autonomy or even independence from Italy, for Padania, a region encompassing Northern and part of central Italy.
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The Parliament of Padania, the former Nord and former Parliament House of Mantua, is a body set up by Lega Nord with its internal representation almost electoral basin. It consists of all administrators, regional councillors, mayors and elected MPs in various local and national administrations. The first official headquarters of the plenary meetings of the newborn Po Parliament took place in Villa Riva Berni to Bagnolo San Vito (MN). The second seat in the 2007-2011 of the meetings was located in Vicenza in villa Bonin Maistrello, via dell'oreficeria 21.
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The 2013 Lega Nord leadership election took place in November–December 2013.
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