Great North (''Grande Nord'', GN) is a

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, regionalist,

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and somewhat

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, based in

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. The party proposes federalism and liberal economics, aimed at reducing "the size of the state in order to free enterprises, workers and communities, always putting who works and produce first". GN also adheres to the

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, and the values of the

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History

The party was founded in December 2017, by prominent former members of

Lega Nord Lega Nord (; acronym: LN), whose complete name is (), is a right-wing, federalist, populist and conservative political party in Italy. In the run-up of the 2018 general election, the party was rebranded as (), without changing its official n ...

(LN), including

Marco Reguzzoni Marco Giovanni Reguzzoni (born 30 May 1971 in Busto Arsizio) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur. He was President of Varese Province from 2002 to 2008. He was a member of the Italian Parliament as congressman and president of the Nort ...

(leader of The Republicans),

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(leader of

Padanian Union The Padanian Union (''Unione Padana'', UP) is a Padanian nationalism, Padanist and separatism, separatist list of political parties in Italy, political party active in Lombardy, Italy. The party emerged in November 2011 by the merger of Lega Padan ...

, Lombard Independence and "Make the North Great Again"),

Fabrizio Comencini Fabrizio Comencini (born 6 November 1953, in Garda) is an Italian politician. Comencini started his political career in the Italian Social Movement (MSI), for which he was elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1985 and 1990. In the early ...

(leader of

Liga Veneta Repubblica Liga Veneta Repubblica (''Łiga Vèneta Republica'', Venetian Republic League, LVR) is a Venetist political party in Veneto, Italy. The party maintains a mildly separatist position and campaigns for the self-government of Veneto. The party's fo ...

, member of

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(leader of

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Giuseppe Leoni Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph, from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף. It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it. The feminine form of the name is Giusep ...

Oreste Rossi ''Oreste'' ("Orestes", HWV A11, HG 48/102) is an opera by George Frideric Handel in three acts. The libretto was anonymously adapted from Giangualberto Barlocci’s ''L’Oreste'' (1723, Rome), which was in turn adapted from Euripides' ''Iph ...

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and Marco Desiderati. Some of them (Reguzzoni, Alessandri, Leoni, Rossi, Martini and Desiderati) had been loyalists of

Umberto Bossi Umberto Bossi (born 19 September 1941) is an Italian politician and former leader of Lega Nord (Northern League), a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padania. He is married to the Sicilian Manuela Marrone, and has fou ...

, founder and leader of LN until April 2012, and had left that party in opposition to

Roberto Maroni Roberto Ernesto Maroni (; 15 March 1955 – 22 November 2022) was an Italian politician from Varese and a past President of Lombardy. He was the leader of the Northern League, a party seeking autonomy or independence for Northern Italy or Padan ...

and

Matteo Salvini Matteo Salvini (; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician who has served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been List of Federal ...

, Bossi's successors; others (Bernardelli and Comencini) had opposed Bossi, and left the LN decades ago. All of them opposed Salvini's "populist" turn and his "Italian national" strategy. Bossi attended the party's founding convention, but did not join. In the general election of

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, GN fielded candidates only in a few constituencies and obtained a mere 0.1% of the vote.

Electoral results

Italian Parliament

Regional Councils

External links

Official website

References

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