Lega Nord
political party in Italy
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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 Secretary | Matteo Salvini |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Ideology | Currently: 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 position | Right-wing[11] |
| Website | |
| leganord | |
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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Verney, Susannah (2013). Euroscepticism in Southern Europe: A Diachronic Perspective. Routledge. p. 13.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "European right-wing comes of age". topconservativenews.com. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
- ↑ "National delegations". MENL. Archived from the original on 3 July 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2015.