Va' pensiero Padania

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Va' pensiero Padania was a Northern-Italian electoral list for the 2001 general election.

In 2000 Lega Nord signed a coalition pact with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia. The Va' pensiero [1] list was designed to attract the disgruntled voters of Lega Nord in some key Senate constituencies that were not given to the party and in which the centre-left was not competitive, in order to have one more elect to the Senate. [2]

Most candidates of Va' pensiero were members of the League, such as incumbent senator Giuseppe Leoni, who stood in Varese. [3] Another leading member and future leader of Lega Padana Lombardia, Roberto Bernardelli, was to stand as candidate in opposition to Marcello Dell'Utri in a constituency in Milano, but later backtracked. [4]

The list gained 1.6% of the vote in Veneto, 0.8% in Lombardy and 1.1% Piedmont, doing particularly well in the constituencies of Vittorio Veneto (5.0%), Conegliano (4.5%), Varese (3.9%), Biella (4.0%) and Cuneo (4.1%). [5] The list however failed its scope as Liga Fronte Veneto (4.9% in Veneto [6] ) and Lega per l'Autonomia – Alleanza Lombarda (5.4% in Lombardy [7] ), two spin-offs of Lega Nord, attracted the vote of most Lega Nord dissidents and also of many voters who confused them with the mother party.

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References

  1. ↑ The list was named after Va, pensiero , a chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco , chosen by Lega Nord a "national anthem of Padania".
  2. ↑ http://www.letterealdirettore.it/forum/testo/topic/2388-1.html [ dead link ]
  3. ↑ "::: Ministero dell'Interno ::: Archivio Storico delle Elezioni - Senato del 13 Maggio 2001". Elezionistorico.interno.it. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
  4. ↑ "Archivio Corriere della Sera". Archiviostorico.corriere.it. 2016-02-29. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
  5. ↑ "::: Ministero dell'Interno ::: Archivio Storico delle Elezioni - Senato del 13 Maggio 2001". Elezionistorico.interno.it. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
  6. ↑ "::: Ministero dell'Interno ::: Archivio Storico delle Elezioni - Senato del 13 Maggio 2001". Elezionistorico.interno.it. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
  7. ↑ "::: Ministero dell'Interno ::: Archivio Storico delle Elezioni - Senato del 13 Maggio 2001". Elezionistorico.interno.it. Retrieved 2016-12-13.


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