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Les antécédents idéologiques de la Ligue nord

1998; Presses de Sciences Po; Volume: 48; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3406/rfsp.1998.395287

1950-6686

Christophe Bouillaud,

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

The ideological antecedents of the lega nord Since the early 1990s, the Lombard League, created and led by Umberto Bossi, has become an essential actor in the Italian political system. This fledgling party, whose earliest organizational roots can be traced to the late 1970s, seems to derive from no previous experience, and to constitute a totally new element in the Italian political universe. It is however possible to iden­tify ideological antecedents of this party in the 1940s and 1950s. They are found either within Christian Democracy, in 1945, or in a relationship of direct electoral competition with it, in 1956-1959. The present ideology of the Lega Nord is in fact an adaptation to the social and political situation of recent years of descriptions and prescriptions already present in the early years of the Italian Republic. It is therefore necessary to reconsider the Lega's present emer­gence in the light of the past failures of the forces to which it owes its heritage.