Julian Front (''Fronte Giuliano'', FG) was a regionalist

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active in the

Province of Trieste The province of Trieste () is a province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Trieste. It has an area of and a population of 228,049. It has a coastal length of . Abolished in 2017, it was reestabl ...

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. Formed in the mid 1990s, the party strived for the independence of Trieste from

(through the return to the

Free Territory of Trieste The Free Territory of Trieste was an independent territory in Southern Europe between Italy and SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, facing the north part of the Adriatic Sea, under United Nations Security Council Resolution 16, direct responsibility of ...

), in line with a tradition started with the Independence Front for the Free Julian State after

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and continued with the List for Trieste in the late 1970s. Prior to that FG supports the separation from Friuli and the creation of the region of Trieste. FG took part to the 1998 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election, gaining 1.0% of the vote (5.4% in the Province of Trieste). In 1999 the party was a founding member of the

Autonomists for Europe Autonomists for Europe (, ApE) was a minor regionalist, Christian-democratic and liberal Italian political party. Founded in 2000 by splinters of Northern League as a potentially dangerous competitor, it became a rather marginal force. The p ...

, which soon folded. Recently the party got closer to

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and wants to join in as a new "national section" and not through Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia (result of the merger between Lega Nord Friuli and Lega Nord Trieste in 2001). In 2012 the Julian Front joined together with the Friuli Front (''Fronte Friuli''), led by Stefano Colussi, in the Front for Independence (''Fronte per l'Indipendenza'').«Il Fronte Indipendenza alle regionali»
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Leadership

*President: Giorgio Gherlanz *Secretary: Giorgio Marchesich

References

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External links

Official website
Political parties in Friuli-Venezia Giulia Separatism in Italy