Liga Veneta Serenissima was a Venetist

Venetism

Venetian nationalism is an ideology and a regionalist movement demanding more autonomy, or even independence from Italy, for Veneto, and promoting the re-discovery the Republic of Venice's heritage, traditions, culture and language...

 political party active in Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

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LFS was founded in 1984 by splinters 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...

 (LV) led by Achille Tramarin

Achille Tramarin

Achille Tramarin is an Italian Venetist politician.In 1978–1980 he took part to the foundation of Liga Veneta and in 1980 he was elected first national secretary of the party...

. Tramarin was first elected national secretary of Liga Veneta in 1980 and in the 1983 regional election

Italian general election, 1983

The Italian election of 1983 was held on June 26. The ninth Parliament of republican Italy was selected.The Pentaparty formula, the governative alliance between five centrist parties, caused unexpected problems to the Christian Democracy. The alliance was fixed and universal, extended both to the...

 he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies

Italian Chamber of Deputies

The Italian Chamber of Deputies is the lower house of the Parliament of Italy. It has 630 seats, a plurality of which is controlled presently by liberal-conservative party People of Freedom. Twelve deputies represent Italian citizens outside of Italy. Deputies meet in the Palazzo Montecitorio. A...

. Soon after the election Franco Rocchetta

Franco Rocchetta

Franco Rocchetta is a Venetist politician.Rocchetta was born in Venice. He was a founding member of Liga Veneta in 1978–1980, and its national president and practical leader...

, who was not elected, forced Tramarin to resign as party segretaty. When Tramarin refused to do so, Rocchetta organized a revolt and replaced him with Marilena Marin

Marilena Marin

Marilena Marin is an Italian Venetist politician.A native of Conegliano, she was a founding member of Liga Veneta in 1978–1980 and, after a party purge in 1984, she was elected national secretary of the party replacing Achille Tramarin...

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Although the expulsion of Tramarin and Senator Graziano Girardi

Graziano Girardi

Graziano Girardi is an Italian Venetist politician.An early member of Liga Veneta, he was elected senator in 1983, the fist in party's history. After having briefly joined the Union of the Venetian People, he returned into Liga Veneta and, in 1991, he joined the Lega Nord of which he is currently...

 from the party meant its disappearance from the Parliament of Italy

Parliament of Italy

The Parliament of Italy is the national parliament of Italy. It is a bicameral legislature with 945 elected members . The Chamber of Deputies, with 630 members is the lower house. The Senate of the Republic is the upper house and has 315 members .Since 2005, a party list electoral law is being...

, Liga Veneta did well in the 1985 regional election

Venetian regional election, 1985

The Venetian regional election of 1985 took place on 12 May 1985.Christian Democracy was by far the largest party, but for the first time since 1970 it was not able to secure an outright majority...

 (3.7% of the vote and two regional councillors elected), while LVS was relegated to a mere 0.2% of the vote. In 1987 Tramarin and what remained of LVS joined Ettore Beggiato

Ettore Beggiato

Ettore Beggiato is a Venetist historian and politician.As member of several Venetist political parties , he was member of the Regional Council of Veneto from 1985 to 2000...

's Union of the Venetian People

Union of the Venetian People

The Union of the Venetian People was a Venetist political party active in Veneto.-History:The party was founded in 1987 by splinters from Liga Veneta led by Ettore Beggiato and Gianni Butturini. In the 1990 regional election UPV won 1.9% of the vote and Beggiato was re-elected to the Regional...

 (UPV), but he did not return into Liga Veneta as UPV did in 1995. In 1998 he returned to active politics and was one of the founding members of Liga Veneta Repubblica (LVR).

Sources

• Francesco Jori, Dalla Łiga alla Lega. Storia, movimenti, protagonisti, Marsilio, Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
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• 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...