Lega Autonomia Veneta

The Lega Autonomia Veneta (Venetian Autonomy League, LAV) was a regionalist centre-left Venetian political party active in the 1990s.

The party was composed mainly of dissidents from Liga Veneta, but nevertheless its long-standing leaders was Mario Rigo, formerly Mayor of Venice (1975-1985) and MEP (1984-1989) for the Italian Socialist Party, and Oscar De Bona, another ex-Socialist who was elected President of the Province of Belluno in 1995 and re-elected for The Dolomitic Agreement in 1999.

Rigo was elected for the party to the Chamber of Deputies in 1992 (in list with the Sardinian Action Party) and to the Senate in 1996 (in coalition with The Olive Tree). In 1997 LAV merged, at the regional level, with the North-East Movement of Massimo Cacciari, while, at the national level, it became the League of Regions. The Movement of Cacciari merged into The Democrats in 1999 and the League of Rigo disappeared by 2001.

External links

* [http://www.raixevenete.net/documenti/doc47.asp Short History of Venetian Autonomism by Ezio Toffano – Raixe Venete]