Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia

Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia (North League Friuli-Venezia Giulia) is a regionalist Italian political party which is the regional section of Lega Nord in Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

It was founded in 1990 as Lega Nord Friuli and was later merged with Lega Nord Trieste to form a united regional section. Most of its founding members came from the Friuli Movement.

The party, who is led by Pietro Fontanini since 2008 [http://www.regione.fvg.it/rafvg/ansa/dettaglio.act?ansa=20080727.011&dir=/rafvg/cms/RAFVG/ansa/] , is represented in the institutions by two deputies (Fulvio Follegot and Massimiliano Fedriga), one senator (Mario Pittoni) and eight regional deputies. Pietro Fontanini is the President of the Province of Udine, while Eduard Ballaman is the President of the Regional Council.

Popular support

In the past ten years Lega Nord suffered big lossess in term of votes. Anyway, the strongholds of the party remain in Friuli, the eastern part of the region: in the 2008 general election it won 19.0% in the Province of Pordenone and 14.4% in Udine.

The electoral results of Lega Nord in Friuli-Venezia Giulia are shown in the table below.

Leadership

*National Secretary: Roberto Visentin (1991–1999), Eduard Ballaman (1999–2000), Giuseppe Zoppolato (2000–2003), Ugo Follegot (2003–2005), Marco Pottino (2005–2007), Pietro Fontanini (2008–...)
*National President: Pietro Fontanini (1991–2001), Rinaldo Bosco (2001–2005), Alessandra Guerra (2005–2008), Enzo Bortolotti (2008–...)

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