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The Sun of the Alps, the flag of Padania proposed by Lega Nord. Padanian nationalism 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.
More recently, however, the party has rejected its federalist rhetoric in favour of the hard-line discourse of secession of a place it calls ‘Padania’ (which roughly corresponds to Northern and Central Italy).
- Benito Giordano
- 1999
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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
May 22, 2017 · «Prima gli italiani». La Lega nordista non esiste più, la svolta di Matteo Salvini è compiuta: a Parma il congresso della Lega sancisce il nuovo corso e lo rielegge segretario.
- Marco Cremonesi, inviato a Parma
- 2017
Lega Nord, a federation of regional parties of Northern Italy, proclaimed the formation of the "Federal Republic of Padania" in 1996 and was the main political proponent of Padania nationalism until 2013, when the party shifted back toward federalism and regionalism, as well as adopting to some extent Italian nationalism, under Matteo Salvini's ...
Jul 1, 1999 · This paper explores the ways in which the LN has communicated its main political discourses and then considers the reasons why these discourses have generated differing levels of support in three contrasting geographical contexts across Northern and Central Italy.
An alliance of northern Italian regional parties. Against the background of Italy's regional disparity in social and economic terms, its appeal is based on northern resentment against the redistribution of welfare and taxation from the prosperous north to the poor south.
