The Lega Autonomia Veneta (Venetian Autonomy League, LAV) was a centre-left

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 regionalist

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 political party in Veneto.

The party was composed mainly of dissidents from Liga Veneta

Liga Veneta

Liga Veneta is a regionalist political party based in Veneto, combining Venetism and fiscal federalism. Liga Veneta is by far the largest party in Veneto and the party of Luca Zaia, President of Veneto since March 2010.It was the first party of its kind in Northern Italy, predating Umberto...

, but nevertheless its long-standing leaders were Mario Rigo, a former Mayor of Venice

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 (1975–1985) and MEP

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 (1984–1989) for the Italian Socialist Party

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, and Oscar De Bona

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Oscar De Bona is an Italian politician.A long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party, he was elected President of the Province of Belluno in 1990. After the disbandament of that party, he joined Lega Autonomia Veneta and was re-elected President of the Province in 1995 and 1999...

, Socialist President of the Province of Belluno

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 since 1990.

In the 1990 regional election

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 the party won 0.9% of the vote, but, as Liga Veneta–Lega Nord boomed in the early 1990s, also LAV increased its share of votes, reaching 6.0% in 5-6% of the vote in Senate elections. Rigo was elected for the party to the Chamber of Deputies

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 (along with Pierluigi Ronzani to the Senate

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) in 1992

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 and to the Senate in 1996 (in coalition with The Olive Tree). De Bona was re-elected President of the Province of Belluno for LAV and Dolomitic Agreement in 1995 and 1999, prior to joining the New Italian Socialist Party and the centre-right House of Freedoms

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.

In 1997 LAV was merged, at the regional level, with the North-East Movement of Massimo Cacciari

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, while, at the national level, it became the League of Regions. The Movement of Cacciari was merged into The Democrats

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 in 1999 and the League of Rigo disappeared by 2001.

Popular support

The electoral results of the party in Veneto are shown in the table below. For general elections the results refer to the Senate election.

1990 regional	1992 general	1994 general	1994 European	1995 regional	1996 general	1999 European
0.9	5.0	6.0	1.2	2.9
0.3

Sources

• Francesco Jori, Dalla Łiga alla Lega. Storia, movimenti, protagonisti, Marsilio, Venice
  Venice
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   2009
• Ezio Toffano, Short History of the Venetian Autonomism, Raixe Venete
  Raixe Venete
  Raixe Venete is a Venetist cultural association.Every year it organizes the Festa dei Veneti in Cittadella, where Venetists of every political colour, Venetist associations, actors, musicians and rock bands, and many simple citizens gather and whose website is translated in several languages...