Lega Nord

political party in Italy

The Lega Nord (English: Northern League) is an Italian political party. In December 2013, Matteo Salvini was elected to be the leader of the party.

Northern League (in English)
Lega Nord (in Italian)
Federal SecretaryMatteo Salvini
Founded1991
IdeologyCurrently:
Conservatism[1]
Regionalism[2]
Federalism[3]
Right-wing populism[4]
Euroscepticism[5]
Anti-globalisation[6]
Anti-immigration[7][8]
Historically:
Padanian nationalism[9]
Liberalism[10]
Political positionRight-wing[11]
Website
leganord.org

After the 2018 elections, Lega Nord formed a coalition with the Five Star Movement.

Since 2014, the party has been a member of the right-wing to far-right Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom group in the European Parliament.[12]

References

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    • Zaslove, Andrej (2011). The Re-invention of the European Radical Right. McGill-Queen's Press. p. 101.
    • "Italian watchdog blocks Salvini's attempt to put 'mother and father' on kids' ID cards". The Local. 16 November 2018.
    • "Italy's Salvini asserts 'natural family' in move against same-sex parents". Reuters. 10 August 2018.
  1. Andrej Zaslove (2011). The Re-invention of the European Radical Right: Populism, Regionalism, and the Italian Lega Nord. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP. p. 65. ISBN 978-0-7735-3851-1.
  2. Spektorowski, Alberto (March 2003), "Ethonregionalism: The Intellectual New Right and the Lega Nord" (PDF), The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, 2 (3–4): 55–70, doi:10.1080/14718800308405144, S2CID 144243976, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-30, retrieved 2018-11-09
  3. Ruzza, Carlo; Fella, Stefano (2009), Re-inventing the Italian Right: Territorial politics, populism and 'post-fascism', Routledge, p. 1, ISBN 978-1-134-28634-8
  4. Verney, Susannah (2013). Euroscepticism in Southern Europe: A Diachronic Perspective. Routledge. p. 13.
  5. Zaslove, Andrej (July 2008). "Exclusion, community, and a populist political economy: the radical right as an anti-globalization movement". Comparative European Politics. 6 (2). Palgrave Macmillan: 169–189. doi:10.1057/palgrave.cep.6110126. S2CID 144465005.
  6. Alonso, Sonia (2012). Challenging the State: Devolution and the Battle for Partisan Credibility – A Comparison of Belgium, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Oxford University Press. p. 216.
  7. Art, David (2011). Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe. Cambridge University Press. pp. 216 et seqq., especially p. 226.
  8. Michel Huysseune (2003). "Deconstructing and Reconstructing Loyalty: The Case of Italy". In Andrew Linklater; Michael Waller (eds.). Political Loyalty and the Nation-State. Routledge. p. 175. ISBN 978-1-134-20143-3.
  9. Zaslove, Andrej (4 August 2011). The Re-invention of the European Radical Right: Populism, Regionalism, and the Italian Lega Nord. McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP. ISBN 9780773586109 – via Google Books.
  10. "European right-wing comes of age". topconservativenews.com. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  11. "National delegations". MENL. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2015.