Southern Action League

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The Southern Action League (Lega d'Azione Meridionale, LAM) is a regionalist national-conservatism Italian political party which was active in Puglia and especially in the Province of Taranto.

Its leader Giancarlo Cito, former member of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (from which he was expelled for his extreme views) and fierce anti-Lega Nord campaigner, was Mayor of Taranto from 1993 to 1997. The party was represented in the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 1996 by Pietro Cerullo (who was elected in the sigle-seat constituency of Taranto in a close three-horse race) and from 1996 to 2001 by Giancarlo Cito himself (who took 45.9% of the votes in Taranto, beating by a large margin a centre-left candidate and Cerullo, who had left the party to join the Federalists and Liberal Democrats and later Forza Italia).

The party suffered several setback since 2001 (when Cito won only 13.9% of the votes in his constituency and failed to be re-elected): between 2003 and 2007, Cito was convicted for Mafia crimes and the party seemed almost completely over. In 2007 anyway the party had a resurgence in the municipal election of Taranto, when Mario Cito, son of Giancarlo, won 20.2% of the votes as candidate for Mayor.