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

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in 1985 and 1990. In the early 1990s, during his second term in the Council, he switched to

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– Lega Nord. In 1994 he was elected secretary of the party and in 1995 he was re-elected to the Council. During his tenure as leader, Lega Nord had its best electoral result so far in Veneto and in any other region, scoring 29.7% of the vote at the 1996 general election. In 1998 Comencini broke with

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in the name of

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as opposed to

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. Although he commanded a majority of Liga Veneta's regional councillors (7 out of 9:

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, Franco Roccon and himself), Comencini was not supported by the majority of Liga Veneta who supported Gian Paolo Gobbo instead. He thus resigned as national secretary and formed a new party called Liga Veneta Repubblica (later

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and finally, again, Liga Veneta Repubblica). Most recently, Comencini ran in the 2015 regional election for Independence We Veneto (in support of

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's second term as

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), but was not elected.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Comencini, Fabrizio 1953 births Living people Venetist politicians People from the Province of Verona Italian political party founders Members of the Regional Council of Veneto 21st-century Italian politicians 20th-century Italian politicians