Lega Nuova was a short-lived regionalist

Regionalism (politics)

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 political party active in Lombardy

Lombardy

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Lega Nuova was founded in 1991 by Franco Castellazzi, national president of Lega Lombarda

Lega Lombarda

Lega Lombarda is a regionalist political party active in Lombardy. Led by Giancarlo Giorgetti, the party is the second largest in the region....

–Lega Nord in collision with the party's leader Umberto Bossi

Umberto Bossi

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, and by five other regional councillors from that party. By the 1992 general election

Italian general election, 1992

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 some of those returned back into Lega Lombarda, while Castellazzi and others ran within the lists of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party

Italian Democratic Socialist Party

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 without success.

Sources

• Adalberto Signore; Alessandro Trocino, Razza padana, BUR, Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
   2008
• David Parenzo; Davide Romano, Romanzo padano. Da Bossi a Bossi. Storia della Lega, Sperling & Kupfer, Milan
  Milan
  Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
  
   2009
• Francesco Jori, Dalla Łiga alla Lega. Storia, movimenti, protagonisti, Marsilio, Venice
  Venice
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  2009