Lega Padana (''Padanian League'') is a Padanist and

separatist Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seeking greate ...

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founded in 1999 and active mainly in

Piedmont it, Piemontese , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = , demographics1_footnotes = , demographics1_title1 = , demographics1_info1 = , demographics1_title2 ...

, Italy. In the 2009 provincial elections, the piedmontese section of the party, the Piedmont Padanian League (''Lega Padana Piemont'') obtained 1.1% of the vote in the

Province of Alessandria The Province of Alessandria ( it, Provincia di Alessandria; pms, Provincia ëd Lissandria; in Piedmontese of Alessandria: ''Provinsa ëd Lissändria'') is an Italian province, with a population of some 425,000, which forms the southeastern part o ...

and 1.0% in the

Province of Turin The former Province of Turin ( it, Provincia di Torino; pms, Provinsa ëd Turin; french: Province de Turin) was a province in the Piedmont region of Italy. Its capital was the city of Turin. The province existed until 31 December 2014, when it wa ...

Renzo Rabellino Renzo Rabellino (born in Turin on September 12, 1958) is the leader of the No Euro Movement, a political party in Italy that advocates the return of the Italian lira for the Italian currency and government control of the central bank. Elected in 1 ...

, who was a joint-candidate of several small parties, won 3.5% of the vote and he was elected to the Provincial Council of Turin. In the 2010 Piedmontese regional election Rabellino ran for president and gained 1.7%. In 2011 Turin municipal election the candidate supported by LPP,

Domenico Coppola Domenico is an Italian given name for males and may refer to: People * Domenico Alfani, Italian painter * Domenico Allegri, Italian composer * Domenico Alvaro, Italian mobster * Domenico Ambrogi, Italian painter * Domenico Auria, Italian archite ...

, won 3.6% of the vote. Coppola, who had been elected to the Municipal Council, died a few days later the election.

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Political parties in Piedmont Padanian independence activists {{Italy-party-stub

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