Liga Nathion Veneta

Liga Nathion Veneta (Venetian Nation League, LNV) was a short-lived Venetist political party active in Veneto.

LNV was founded in 1994 by Franco Rocchetta and Marilena Marin, after they had left Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, a party they were instrumental to establish.[1] Marin had been national secretary of Liga Veneta from 1983 to 1994 (when she was defeated by Fabrizio Comencini during a party congress), while Rocchetta had been federal president of Lega Nord from 1991 to 1994, after having conceived Liga Veneta in 1978–1980.

The party had no electoral fortune: in 1994 Treviso municipal election LNV obtained a mere 1.5% of the vote[2] and it failed to present a list in the 1995 regional election. By that time Rocchetta and Marin had joined the Federalists and Liberal Democrats, a parliamentary party close to Forza Italia. Subsequently Rocchetta, who had awkwardly joined National Alliance in 1995,[3] retired from active politics in 1996, while Marin concluded her term as MEP in 1999.

References

  1. ↑ Francesco Jori, Dalla Łiga alla Lega. Storia, movimenti, protagonisti, Marsilio, Venice 2009, pp. 90-91
  2. ↑ Regional Council of Veneto – Electoral Archive
  3. ↑ Chamber of Deputies – Franco Rocchetta's page

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