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Lega Nord's Padania Map of Europe, showing Padania (as claimed by Lega Nord) in dark green Nations of Padania as claimed by Lega Nord. Proper Padania, claimed by Lega Padana, excludes Tuscany (except for Massa-Carrara province and Tuscan Romagna), Umbria and Marche (except for the Gallo-Picene speaking areas in the north of the region).
- 124,000 km² (48,000 sq mi)
- 27,800,000
- Italy
Map of Europe, showing Padania (as claimed by Lega Nord) in dark green. Nations of Padania as claimed by Lega Nord. Opinion polling. While support for a federal system, as opposed to a centrally administered state, receives widespread consensus within Padania, support for independence is less favoured.
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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).
According to the Lega Nord, it is the North of Italy and its citizens that are penalized by a corrupt, bureaucratic and wasteful central Italian State, which is biased towards the South of Italy and Southern Italians (Giordano 2000).
Political Science, Geography. Area. The Lega Nord (Northern League) regionalist party, which has risen to prominence in Italy in recent years, has a specific geographical focus to its political project. This is premised essentially upon the protection of Northern Italian economic (and cultural) interests, however, this geographical focus has ...
May 1, 2000 · The contrasting geographies of ‘Padania’: the case of the Lega Nord in Northern Italy. Mimeo, School of Geography, University of Manchester.
1. 1 The first area is the province of Varese, in Lombardia, in which the LN is relatively electorally strong. The second area is the province of Macerata, in the Marche region of Central Italy, which has a very low level of electoral support for the LN.