Great North
Great North Confederation Confederazione Grande Nord | |
|---|---|
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| President | Roberto Bernardelli |
| Founded | 12 December 2017 |
| Split from | Lega Nord |
| Headquarters | Piazza Missori, 1 Milan |
| Ideology | Regionalism Federalism Liberalism |
| Website | |
| https://www.grandenord.org/ | |
Great North (Grande Nord, GN) is a liberal, regionalist, federalist and somewhat separatist political party, based in Northern Italy. The party proposes federalism and liberal economics, aimed at reducing "the size of the state in order to free enterprises, workers and communities, always putting who works and produce first".[1] GN also adheres to the Oxford Manifesto, and the values of the Liberal International.[2]
History
The party was founded in December 2017, by prominent former members of Lega Nord (LN), including Marco Reguzzoni (leader of The Republicans), Roberto Bernardelli (leader of Padanian Union, Lombard Independence and "Make the North Great Again"),[3][4] Fabrizio Comencini (leader of Liga Veneta Repubblica, member of Independence We Veneto), Angelo Alessandri (leader of I Change), Giuseppe Leoni, Oreste Rossi, Francesca Martini and Marco Desiderati.
Some of them (Reguzzoni, Alessandri, Leoni, Rossi, Martini and Desiderati) had been loyalists of Umberto Bossi, founder and leader of LN until April 2012, and had left that party in opposition to Roberto Maroni and Matteo Salvini, Bossi's successors; others (Bernardelli and Comencini) had opposed Bossi, and left the LN decades ago.
All of them opposed Salvini's "populist" turn and his "Italian national" strategy. Bossi attended the party's founding convention, but did not join.[1][5][6] In the general election of 2018, GN fielded candidates only in a few constituencies and obtained a mere 0.1% of the vote.[7]
Electoral results
Italian Parliament
| Chamber of Deputies | ||||||
| Election year | # of
overall votes |
% of
overall vote |
# of
overall seats won |
+/– | Leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 19,846 | 0.06 | 0 / 630
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| Senate of the Republic | ||||||
| Election year | # of
overall votes |
% of
overall vote |
# of
overall seats won |
+/– | Leader | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 17,507 | 0.06 | 0 / 630
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Regional Councils
| Region | Latest election | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/– |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lombardy | 2018 | 13,793 | 0.26 | 0 / 80
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External links
References
- ^ a b "Milano, si è costituito ufficialmente "Grande Nord"". Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "GRANDE NORD". grandenord.org. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "BOSSI con Fare tornare grande il NORD al Cavalieri: "100mila imprese fallite, ci hanno portato in un tunnel per farci morire. Ma io sono ancora qui, e vivo la speranza che il Nord rialzi la testa!"". Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "Parla il Senatùr, ma si sente la voce di Giorgetti (e Zaia-Maroni)". Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ "E' nato GRANDE NORD con Bernardelli. Bossi: Se non serve più, la Lega può anche chiudere". Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ http://reggionelweb.it/2017/08/prove-grande-nord-ex-bossiani-reggio-non-decolla-bossi-salvini-lega-nord
- ^ "Dipartimento per gli Affari Interni e Territoriali". elezionistorico.interno.gov.it. Retrieved 2019-02-22.