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.
Italy competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 253 competitors, 212 men and 41 women, took part in 140 events in 23 sports.
The Italy national basketball team represents Italy in men's international basketball tournaments. They are administered by the Italian Basketball Federation (FIP).
Associazione Calcio Dilettantistica Legnano, commonly referred to as Legnano, is an Italian football club based in Legnano, Lombardy. Founded in 1913, Legnano played three seasons in Serie A and a total of eleven seasons in the top tier of the Italian football league system.
Liga Veneta, whose complete name is Liga Veneta per Salvini Premier, is a regionalist political party active in Veneto.
Giancarlo Giorgetti is an Italian politician and prominent member of the League, of which he became deputy secretary in 2016. Since February 2021, Giorgetti is serving as Minister of Economic Development in the government of Mario Draghi. Previously, he was Secretary of the Council of Ministers from June 2018 until September 2019, in the government of Giuseppe Conte.
Italy was the host nation for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. It was the first time that the nation had hosted the Summer Games, and the second time overall. It also hosted the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome – the inaugural Paralympic Games.
Lega Lombarda, whose complete name is Lega Lombarda per Salvini Premier, is a regionalist political party active in Lombardy. Established in 1984, it was one of the founding "national" sections of Lega Nord (LN) in 1991 and has been the regional section of Lega per Salvini Premier (LSP) in Lombardy since 2020. Along with Liga Veneta, the LL has formed the bulk of the federal party (LN/LSP), which was led by Lombards since its foundation.
This article is about the composition of the Regional Council of Veneto, the legislative assembly of Veneto, during the VIII Legislature, thus the term started in April 2005, following the 2005 regional election, and ended in April 2010. Of the 60 members, 47 were elected in provincial constituencies with proportional representation with a further 12 returned from the so-called "regional list" of the elected President of Veneto, including the President himself, and the candidate for president who came second.
The 2007 Basilan beheading incident was an armed incident in July 2007 between the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels and the Philippine Army which led to the execution of 14 or 23 members of the Philippine Marines, amongst them 11 beheaded in the province of Basilan in the southern Philippines.
The Italian general election of 2008 took place on 13–14 April 2008.
The 2008 Italian general election took place on 13–14 April 2008.
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.
Great North is a liberal, regionalist, federalist and somewhat separatist political party, based in Northern Italy. The party proposes federalism and liberal economics, aimed at reducing "the size of the state in order to free enterprises, workers and communities, always putting who works and produce first". GN also adheres to the Oxford Manifesto, and the values of the Liberal International.
This article is about the composition of the Regional Council of Veneto, the legislative assembly of Veneto, during the XI Legislature, thus the term started in September 2020, following the 2020 regional election. Of the 51 members, 49 were elected in provincial constituencies by proportional representation using the largest remainder method with a Droop quota and open lists, while the remaining two were the elected President and the candidate for President who came second.