Lega Friuli-Venezia Giulia
regionalist political party in Italy
Lega Friuli-Venezia Giulia (English: League Friuli–Julian March), whose complete name is Lega Friuli-Venezia Giulia per Salvini Premier (English: "League Friuli–Julian March for Salvini [as] Premier"), is a regionalist political party active in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The party was a "national" section of Lega Nord (LN) from 1991 to 2020 and has been the regional section of Lega per Salvini Premier (LSP) in Friuli-Venezia Giulia since 2020.
The party is currently led by Marco Dreosto. Its leading member is Massimiliano Fedriga, President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia since 2018.
History
The party was established in 1990 as Lega Friuli by a group of leading members of the Friuli Movement, including Roberto Visentin, Pietro Fontanini, Rinaldo Bosco, Sergio Cecotti and Alessandra Guerra. After that the Friuli Movement decided not join Lega Nord, they formed Lega Friuli in order to join. Visentin was the founding and longstanding leader of the party until 1999, before leaving it altogether in 2001.
LNF members were President or Vice President of the Region (1993–2003), President of the province of Pordenone (1995–1999), President of the province of Udine (1995–1999), mayor of Pordenone (1993–2001) and mayor of Udine (1998–2003). The party was the region's largest at the 1993 regional election (26.7%) and the 1996 general election (23.2%).
In 2001 Lega Nord Friuli was merged with Lega Nord Trieste to form a united regional section.
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