Padanism

Padanism

Padanism is an ideology and a regionalist movement demanding more autonomy, or even independence from Italy, for Padania. Its main proponent is Lega Nord, a federation of regional parties of Northern Italy, although there are some minor Padanist parties, such as the Lega Padana [http://www.legapadana.it/] [http://www.legapadanabrescia.it/] , and some Padanist thinkers, such as Gilberto Oneto, Giancarlo Pagliarini and late Gianfranco Miglio, who are out of Lega Nord.

Padania and Lega Nord

Lega Nord proclaimed the independece of Padania on 15 September 1996 in Venice, but since then has come back to its original federalist credo, although the party constitution continues to declare that the indipendence of Padania is the party's final goal. [http://www.leganord.org/ilmovimento/lega_nord_statuto.pdf] In that occasion Umberto Bossi, the leader of Lega Nord, echoing the United States Declaration of Independence, proclaimed:

In the following years Lega Nord installed a non-recognized Padanian Parliament near Mantua, elected in self-organized elections and a government in Venice. Currently there is the so-called "Parliament of the North" based in Vicenza, which functions as an internal structure of the party. Lega Nord proposed also a flag, the Sun of Alps, and a national anthem, the "Va' Pensiero" chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco, in which the exiled Hebrew slaves lament for their lost homeland.

More recently the party is trying to promote the indepence of Padania through sports and other activities. Since 1998 Lega Nord organized a Padania national football team, which took part and won 2008 VIVA World Cup.

ee also

*Venetism

Bibliography

*Gianfranco Miglio, "Come cambiare. Le mie riforme", Mondadori, Milan 1992
*Gianfranco Miglio, Henry David Thoreau, "Disobbedienza civile", Mondadori, Milan 1993
*Gianfranco Miglio, "Italia 1996: così è andata a finire", Mondadori, Milan 1993
*Gianfranco Miglio, "Io, Bossi e la Lega", Mondadori, Milan 1994
*Gianfranco Miglio, "La Costituzione federale", Mondadori, Milan 1995
*Gianfranco Miglio, Marcello Veneziani, "Padania, Italia. Lo Stato nazionale è soltanto in crisi o non è mai esistito?", Le Lettere, Florence 1997
*Gianfranco Miglio, Augusto Barbera, "Federalismo e secessione. Un dialogo", Mondatori, Milan 1997
*Gianfranco Miglio, "Federalismi falsi e degenerati", Sperling & Kupfer, Milan 1997
*Gianfranco Miglio, "L'asino di buridano", Neri Pozza, Vicenza 1999
*Gilberto Oneto, "Bandiere di libertà: Simboli e vessilli dei Popoli dell'Italia settentrionale", FdF, Milan 1992
*Gilberto Oneto, "Pianificazione del territorio, federalismo e autonomie locali", Alinea, Florence 1994
*Gilberto Oneto, "L'invenzione della Padania", Foedus Editore, Ceresola (BG) 1997
*Gilberto Oneto, Giancarlo Pagliarini," 50 buone ragioni per l'Indipendenza", La Padania, Milan 1998
*Gilberto Oneto, "Piccolo è libero", Leonardo Facco Editore, Treviglio (BG) 2005
*Gilberto Oneto, "L' iperitaliano. Eroe o cialtrone? Biografia senza censure di Giuseppe Garibaldi", Il Cerchio, Rimini 2006

ee also

*Politics of Italy
*List of political parties in Italy

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