Lega Padana
Piedmontese regionalist political party
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Lega Padana (English: Padanian League) is a Padanist and separatist political party founded in 1999 and active mainly in Piedmont, Italy.
Padanian League Lega Padana | |
|---|---|
| Secretary | Gianluca Noccetti |
| Founded | 8 February 1999 |
| Headquarters | Via San Donato, 55 10144 Turin |
| Ideology | Padanism Separatism |
| Website | |
| legapadana.it | |
History
The Padanian League was founded in Turin on 8 February 1999. In the 2009 Piedmont provincial election, the Piedmontese section of the party, the Piedmont Padanian League (Piedmontese: Lega Padana Piemont) obtained 1.1% of the vote in the province of Alessandria and 1.0% in the province of Turin.[1][2] Renzo Rabellino, who was a joint-candidate of several small parties, won 3.5% of the vote and he was elected to the Provincial Council of Turin.[3] In the 2010 Piedmontese regional election, Rabellino ran for president and gained 1.7%.[4] In the 2011 Turin municipal election, the Piedmont Padanian League-supported candidate Domenico Coppola won 3.6% of the vote.[5] Coppola, who had been elected to the City Council of Turin, died a few days later the election.[6]
