Venetian Agreement is a centrist

Centrism

In politics, centrism is the ideal or the practice of promoting policies that lie different from the standard political left and political right. Most commonly, this is visualized as part of the one-dimensional political spectrum of left-right politics, with centrism landing in the middle between...

 social-democratic

Social democracy

Social democracy is a political ideology of the center-left on the political spectrum. Social democracy is officially a form of evolutionary reformist socialism. It supports class collaboration as the course to achieve socialism...

 Italian 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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It emerged in 2006 as a regional split from the Italian Democratic Socialists

Italian Democratic Socialists

The Italian Democratic Socialists were a small social-democratic political party in Italy. Led by Enrico Boselli, the party was the direct continuation of the Italian Socialists, the legal successor of the historical Italian Socialist Party...

 and it is led by Carlo Covi

Carlo Covi

Carlo Covi is an Italian Venetist politician.He entered politics in 1995 when he was elected to the Municipal Council of Padua as an independent Democrat of the Left. In 1999 he joined the Italian Democratic Socialists , was re-elected to the Municipal Council and became the local leader of the...

, regional deputy, and Monica Balbinot, minister of Culture of Padova. The party was particularly strong in the Municipal Council of Padova: three councillors of out the seven elected by the Socialists in 2004 switched to the new party. In Padua it supported the municipal government led by Flavio Zanonato

Flavio Zanonato

Flavio Zanonato is an Italian politician who is currently Mayor of Padua.A long-time member of the Italian Communist Party and of its successor parties, he is now a member of the Democratic Party....

 (Democratic Party

Democratic Party (Italy)

The Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy, that is the second-largest in the country. The party is led by Pier Luigi Bersani, who was elected in the 2009 leadership election....

) until the elections in June 2009, when it proposed the leader Covi for Mayor.

Venetian Agreement took part in 2008 Italian general elections, only in the region of Veneto, gaining 2388 votes (0.006%) for the Chamber of Deputies and 4275 (0.013%) for the Senate

Italian Senate

The Senate of the Republic is the upper house of the Italian Parliament. It was established in its current form on 8 May 1948, but previously existed during the Kingdom of Italy as Senato del Regno , itself a continuation of the Senato Subalpino of Sardinia-Piedmont established on 8 May 1848...

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In October 2008 IV signed a coalition pact with North-East Project

North-East Project

North-East Project is a Venetist, fiscal federalist and libertarian Italian political party based in Veneto, demanding larger autonomy, if not complete independence for the region.-History:...

 (PNE) and Liga Veneta Repubblica (LVR) (which soon left the alliance) for the future municipal, provincial and regional elections "in order to provide an adequate representation to the Venetian people, in line with what happens in Europe

Europe

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, from Scotland

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 to Catalonia

Catalonia

Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, from Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 to Brittany

Brittany

Brittany is a cultural and administrative region in the north-west of France. Previously a kingdom and then a duchy, Brittany was united to the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province. Brittany has also been referred to as Less, Lesser or Little Britain...

, where federalist, autonomist and independentist parties, who resopond uniquely to their territory, see their popular support increasing." However, in the 2009 provincial and municipal elections, the LVR opted for a different alliance and IV ran only with the PNE. Covi, who was candidate for Mayor in Padua, gained 1.8%. IV entered the centre-right coalition at the second ballot, but it was not able to confirm its representance in the Council, due to the small number of votes (1.30% only).

For the 2010 regional election

Venetian regional election, 2010

The Venetian regional election of 2010 took place on 28–29 March 2010, as part of Italy's big round of regional elections.Luca Zaia, rising star of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord, was elected President by a landslide. With the support of 60.2% of Venetians, he was the most voted President of Veneto since...

, after having formed Veneto Freedom

Veneto Freedom

Veneto Freedom was a Venetist-separatist coalition of parties active in Veneto.Talks between several Venetist parties over the formation of a united party as a reliable competitor of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord started in February 2008 during a meeting in Pastrengo, Verona.The alliance, promoted by...

 with other Venetist parties, the party finally chose to support Antonio De Poli

Antonio De Poli

Antonio De Poli is an Italian politician and former Member of the European Parliament for North-East with the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, part of the European People's Party...

 (UDC) for President under the banner of North-East Union

North-East Union

The North-East Union is a Venetist political party active in Veneto.The party was formed in 1996 by splinters from Liga Veneta–Lega Nord led by Adriano Bertaso. In the 1996 general election the party won 2.0% of the vote in the region , having run only in the Verona–Padua–Vicenza–Rovigo constituency...

 (UNE), along with UNE, PNE and LVR. The list won 1.5% of vote, with peaks of 1.9% and 1.8% in the provinces of Treviso

Province of Treviso

The Province of Treviso is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Treviso.The province has an area of 2,477 km², and a total population of 886.886 . There are 95 municipalities in the province .-Municipalities:-External links:*...

 and Belluno

Province of Belluno

TheThe Province of Belluno is a province in the Veneto region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Belluno.It has an area of 3,678 km², and a total population of 214,026 .-Geography:...

, and Mariangelo Foggiato

Mariangelo Foggiato

Mariangelo Foggiato is a Venetist politician.Having joined Liga Veneta-Lega Nord, he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1995. He however left that party in 1998, when he founded Liga Veneta Repubblica along with Fabrizio Comencini...

(PNE) was elected to the Council.