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The Sun of the Alps, the flag of Padania proposed by Lega Nord. 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 (LN; English: Northern League), whose complete name is Lega Nord per l'Indipendenza della Padania (English: Northern League for the Independence of Padania), is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy.
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- Young Padanians Movement
- Matteo Salvini (last leader)
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Padania as defined in Lega Nord's 1996 Declaration of Independence and Sovereignty of Padania goes beyond Northern Italy and includes much of Central Italy, for a greater Padania that includes more than half of the Republic of Italy (161,000 of 301,000 km 2 in area, 34 million out of 60 million in population).
- 124,000 km² (48,000 sq mi)
- 27,800,000
- Italy
Jul 26, 2019 · 9 Duncan McDonnell, ‘A weekend in Padania: regionalist populism and the Lega Nord’, Politics, vol. 26, no. 2, 2006, 126–32 (127); Daniele Albertazzi, ‘Addressing “the people”: a comparative study of the Lega Nord’s and Lega dei Ticinesi’s political rhetoric and styles of propaganda’, Modern Italy, vol. 12, no. 3, 2007, 327–47 (331–2); Cas Mudde, Populist Radical Right ...
- George Newth
- 2019
2 The LN gained 10.1% in the national Italian election of April 1996, which was an increase of 2% nationally from the 1994 national election. This meant that the LN gained 90 parliamentarians and was the largest party in the regions of Lombardy and Veneto with over 35% of the vote.
- Benito Giordano
- 1999
Apr 25, 2008 · Abstract By calling for the independence of Padania from the rest of Italy, the Lega Nord has recently drawn a great deal of attention to itself. In support of this campaign the Lega has actively introduced mythical and Utopian models onto the Italian political scene, combining a degree of cultural innovation with a certain political adventurism.
The Lega Nord has deliberately given 'Padania' a territorial boundary in order to reify its cultural claims about northern Italian cultural distinctiveness. How ever, the interesting thing to note is that the territorial boundaries of 'Padania' are vaguely defined, which is part of a conscious strategy of the Lega Nord to keep
