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The Lega’s transformation from a fringe, regionally-based party to a ‘national’ political force and the largest party in the 2019 EP elections meant that Salvini’s Euroscepticism was constructed on a recontextualisation of the party’s ‘old’ idea of regionalism, based on a form of localist Sovereignism/Populism in the discourse of ...
In recent years two populist regionalist parties have emerged in the alpine region, the Lega dei Ticinesi (LDT) in Switzerland and the Lega Nord (LN) in Italy.
Padanian nationalism. Padanian nationalism [1] [2] [3] is an ideology and a regionalist movement demanding more autonomy, or even independence from Italy, for Padania, a region encompassing Northern and, to some extent, part of central Italy . Lega Nord, a federation of regional parties of Northern Italy, proclaimed the formation of the ...
Sep 3, 2018 · Some political commentators have speculated that the creation of ‘Lega Salvini Premier’ may be a strategic move to partially avoid the consequences of the scandal that led to Bossi's departure, such as the requirement that the Lega reimburses 40 million Euros to the state (Il Fatto Quotidiano Citation 2018).
Apr 15, 2024 · Further contributing to this ambiguity was the Lega Nord's political strategy in the 1980s and 1990s of depicting all political opponents as fascist and false equivalences between fascism and communism (Newth, Citation 2023b). This, alongside Umberto Bossi's self-depiction as ‘anti-fascist’ while espousing far-right policies and discourse ...
Despite the populist radical right’s (PRR) popularity among political scientists, little scholarship has focused on its influence on foreign policy. This lack of study is due, in part, to a general lack of attention to the role of political parties in foreign policy, both in comparative politics and international relations (IR).
