Lega Trentino
regionalist political party in Italy
Lega Trentino (English: League Trentino), whose complete name is Lega Trentino per Salvini Premier (English: League Trentino for Salvini Premier), is a regionalist political party active in Trentino. The party, initially called Lega Nord Trentino (English: Northern League Trentino), was a "national" section of Lega Nord (LN) from 1991 to 2020 and became the regional section of Lega per Salvini Premier (LSP) in Trentino in 2020.
The party is led by Diego Binelli since 2020, first as pro-tempore commissioner and, after the 2024 congress, as secretary. Maurizio Fugatti, who led the party from 2005 to 2018, has been President of Trentino since 2018.
History
The party was founded in 1990 by some Trentino autonomists who wanted to join Lega Nord, as the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party (PATT) had refused to do so. They included Elisabetta Bertotti, Erminio Boso (former member of Integral Autonomy and the PATT), Sergio Divina (former member of the Italian Liberal Party), Sergio Muraro and Alessandro Savoi. Divina was the party's first secretary until 1995, when he was replaced by Savoi.
In the 1992 general election the LNT won 13.9% of the vote, electing Bertotti to the Chamber of Deputies and Boso to the Senate. In the 1993 provincial election the party obtained 16.2% and six regional councillors, including Divina and Muraro. In the 1996 general election the LNT, which had ejected Bertotti for supporting Lorenzo Dellai, the centre-left candidate, for mayor of Trento in 1995, increased its share to 20.8%.
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