Lega Toscana ("Tuscany League", LT) is a
regionalist political party in Italy
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active in
Tuscany
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The party was formed in January 2011 as Lega per la Toscana ("League for Tuscany") by a group of splinters from
Lega Nord Toscana (LNT) led by
Emilio Paradiso, a former president of the party, and
Federico Tosoni, both based in
Prato. They opposed
Lega Nord's return to separatism, while they were strong proponents of
federalism. As well as other splinters who had earlier formed Tuscan Identity, Paradiso and Tosoni had been rivals of
Claudio Morganti
Claudio Morganti (April 14, 1973, Prato, Italy) is an Italian politician.
Biography
From 2002 to 2013 he was a member of the Tuscan Northern League.
From 2004 to 2009 he was a city councilor in Vaiano, in the province of Prato, and from 2005 ...
, former leader of LNT and
MEP.
In January 2012 the party was joined by a group of LNT splinters from the
province of Lucca
The province of Lucca ( it, provincia di Lucca) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lucca.
It has an area of and a total population of about 390,000. There are 33 '' comuni'' (singular: ''comune'') in the pr ...
led by
Franco Paiuzza.
In the
2015 regional election a joint list of the League for Tuscany and
More Tuscany
More Tuscany (''Più Toscana'', PT) is a regionalist political party in Italy active in Tuscany, Italy.
The party was formed in October 2012 by a group of splinters from Lega Nord Toscana (LNT) led by Antonio Gambetta Vianna, a former president ...
won 0.6% of the vote.
In the local elections of 2019, Emilio Paradiso ran for mayor of
Prato. Eventually, Paradiso and his party scored just 1.3% of the votes and failed the election to the municipal council.
In the
2020 Tuscan regional election Paradiso was a candidate on the
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 ( ...
lists, in support of
Susanna Ceccardi's candidacy for president of the region,
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References
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Political parties in Tuscany