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

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

active in the

Province of Trieste The Province of Trieste ( it, Provincia di Trieste, sl, Tržaška pokrajina; fur, provinzia di Triest) was a Provinces of Italy, province in the autonomous Friuli-Venezia Giulia region of Italy. Its capital was the city of Trieste. It had an are ...

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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), 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 The 1998 Friuli-Venezia Giulia regional election took place on 14 June 1998. Forza Italia, at its first appearance in a regional election, became the largest party with 20.6%, while Northern League came second with 17.3%, but the combined score ...

, 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 ( it, Autonomisti per l'Europa, ApE) was a minor regionalism (politics), regionalist, Christian democracy, Christian-democratic and liberalism, liberal List of political parties in Italy, Italian political party. Founded in ...

, which soon folded. Recently the party got closer to

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 ...

and wants to join in as a new "national section" and not through

Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia Lega Friuli-Venezia Giulia ( en, Friuli-Venezia Giulia League), whose complete name is ( en, Friuli-Venezia Giulia League for Salvini Premier), is a regionalist political party active in Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The party was a "national" section ...

(result of the merger between Lega Nord Friuli and

Lega Nord Trieste (English: ''Northern League Trieste'') was a regionalist political party in Italy. It was the provincial section of in the Province of Trieste, before merging into in 2001. The longstanding leader of the party was Fabrizio Belloni, a keen ind ...

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