Lega Sardegna ( en, Sardinia League; abbr. LS), whose complete name is ( en, Sardinia League for Salvini Premier), is a regionalist and Sardinian nationalist

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

Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

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. The party was established as ( en, Northern League Sardinia; abbr. LNS) in 2010, but, despite being loosely affiliated with

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 ...

(LS) through

Roberto Mura Roberto Mura (born June 5, 1955 in Pavia, Italy) is an Italian politician and businessman. Mura was Senator for the Northern League from 2008 to 2013; he has been a member of the Senate Defense Commission from 22 May 2008 to 30 January 2009, mem ...

(a Lombard senator of Sardinian descent), it was never recognised among the LN's "national" sections. At its beginnings, LNS's main local leader was Giorgio Ladu, a former national secretary of the social-democratic

Sardinian Action Party The Sardinian Action Party ( sc, Partidu Sardu, it, Partito Sardo d'Azione, PSd'Az or PSdA) is a Sardinian nationalist, regionalist and separatist political party in Sardinia. While being traditionally part of the Sardinian centre-left, the p ...

(PSd'Az). The party became the regional section of

Lega per Salvini Premier Lega ( en, League), whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier ( en, League for Salvini Premier; abbr. LSP or LpSP), is a right-wing populist political party in Italy, led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord ( ...

(LSP) in Sardinia in 2020. In the

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, LN won 0.7% in the region. The party was strongest in the

province of Ogliastra The province of Ogliastra ( it, provincia dell'Ogliastra , sc, provìntzia de s'Ogiastra) was a former province in eastern Sardinia, Italy. Ogliastra was the most mountainous province in Sardinia. With only some 57,642 inhabitants, it was also t ...

(5.1%), Ladu's political base, and in the

province of Olbia-Tempio The province of Olbia-Tempio (, , ) was a province in the autonomous region of Sardinia, Italy. It had two provincial capitals, Olbia (58,723 inhabitants) and Tempio Pausania (14,342 inhabitants). As of 2015, the province had a total population of ...

(1.9%). In the 2010 provincial elections, the party won 2.9% in Ogliastra (where Ladu won 3.0% as candidate for President), 1.5% in Olbia-Tempio, 0.8% in

Sassari Sassari (, ; sdc, Sàssari ; sc, Tàtari, ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 127,525 inhabitants, and a Functional Urban Area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, ...

and 0.4% in

Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...

. In the

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, LN won 1.4% in the region, doing better in the Province of Olbia-Tempio (2.4%) than anywhere else. In the 2018 general election, candidates of the PSd'Az ran within the "Lega - Salvini Premier" list, as the LN and the PSd'Az had formed an alliance. The alliance managed to get 10.8% of the vote and

Christian Solinas Christian Solinas (born 2 December 1976) is an Italian politician, leader of the Sardinian Action Party and President of Sardinia. Biography Born in Cagliari, Solinas has been a long-time member of the Sardinian Action Party and has been regiona ...

, leader of the PSd'Az, was elected to the Senate, while Guido De Martini, a local activist of the LN, was elected to the Chamber. In the 2019 regional election, the League successfully supported Solinas for President. Solinas won 47.8% of the vote. The League was the leading force of the local

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, gaining 11.4% and 8 seats (out of 60) in the regional council. In 2020, the LS became the regional section of

. Since 2021, it has been led by

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Popular support

The electoral results of Lega Nord Sardinia in the region are shown in the table below.

References

External links

Official website

Lega Nord Sassari
{{Lega Nord Political parties in Sardinia Political parties established in 2010 Lega Nord