Marilena Marin is an Italian 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...

 politician.

A native of Conegliano

Conegliano

Conegliano is a town and comune of the Veneto region, Italy, in the province of Treviso, about north by rail from the town of Treviso. The population of the city is of around 36,000 people. The remains of a castle that was built in the 10th century remain on a nearby hill...

, she was a founding member of 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...

 in 1978–1980 and, after a party purge in 1984, she was elected national secretary of the party replacing 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...

. In 1987 she married with 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...

, the party's practical leader and contributed to the birth of Lega Nord in 1991.

In June 1994 she was elected to the European Parliament

European Parliament

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, but only one month later she was replaced by Fabrizio Comencini

Fabrizio Comencini

Fabrizio Comencini is a Venetist politician.Comencini started his political career in the Italian Social Movement , for which he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1985 and 1990. In the early 1990s, during his second term as regional councillor, he switched to Liga Veneta–Lega Nord...

 as national secretary during a party congress. In September she left the party and in December joined the Federalists and Liberal Democrats

Federalists and Liberal Democrats

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. Consistently to that, she left the group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party

European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party

The European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party is a European political party mainly active in the European Union, composed of 56 national-level liberal and liberal-democratic parties from across Europe...

 (of which Lega Nord was a member at the time) and joined Forza Europa

Forza Europa

Forza Europa was a centre-right political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1994 and 1995.-History:MEPs from the highly heterogeneous liberal-conservative Forza Italia party, along with MEPs of the Christian Democratic Centre and the former Liberals of the Union of the Centre,...

, the group organized around Forza Italia

Forza Italia

Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....

, instead. She never joined Forza Italia anyway and retired from politics in 1999.