Fabrizio Comencini

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Fabrizio Comencini (Garda, 6 November 1953) is an Italian Venetist politician.

A former member of the nationalist and centralist Italian Social Movement (for which he was elected member of the Veneto Regional Council in 1985 and 1990), he then switched to the Liga Veneta-Lega Nord. Re-elected for this party in the Regional Council, he was national secretary of the Liga Veneta from 1995 to 1998. During his leadership, the Lega Nord had its best electoral result in Veneto, scoring 29.7% of the votes, even more than in Lombardy.

In 1998 Comencini, contesting Umberto Bossi's leadership on the Liga Veneta and his refusal to the idea of supporting the regional government of Giancarlo Galan (something that Comencini had insistently proposed), alongside many members (7 out of 10) of the Liga Veneta's group in the Regional Council (Ettore Beggiato, Alessio Morosin, Mariangelo Foggiato, Alberto Poirè, Michele Munaretto, Franco Roccon and Comencini himself), he founded the Liga Veneta Repubblica.

Comencini, national secretary of the new party, which changed name in Veneti d'Europa in 2000 and merged it with Fabio Padovan's Fronte Marco Polo in 2001 to form the Liga Fronte Veneto, of which he was national president in 2001-2004 and then national secretary in 2004, after that he refused to join Giorgio Panto's new party, the North-East Project, as Ettore Beggiato, Mariangelo Foggiato and Michele Munaretto did.

In 2006 Comencini forged an alliance with the national centre-left alliance L'Unione, after having supported it in the 2005 regional election.