| Ticino League | |
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| French name | Ligue des Tessinois |
| Italian name | Lega dei Ticinesi |
| President | Giuliano Bignasca |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Via Monte Boglia 3, CH-6900 Lugano |
| Membership (2011) | 1,500[1] |
| Ideology | Right-wing populism,[2] National conservatism, Isolationism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| International affiliation | None |
| European affiliation | None |
| Official colours | Blue, Red |
| National Council |
2 / 200
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| Council of States |
0 / 46
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| Cantonal legislatures |
21 / 2,559
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| Website | |
| legaticinesi.ch | |
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The Ticino League (Italian: Lega dei Ticinesi) is an isolationist, national conservative political party in Switzerland active in the canton of Ticino.
In 1991, after some public campaigning in the Sunday journal Mattino della Domenica against political power and use of public money, the editor Giuliano Bignasca and the director Flavio Maspoli founded the Ticino League to continue the fight at the political level.
The League is one of four major parties in the canton, alongside FDP.The Liberals, the Christian Democratic People's Party, and the Social Democratic Party. Since 1991, the party has been represented in the National Council and in the five-member cantonal Ticino executive (the Council of State, Consiglio di Stato) with Marco Borradori.
At the last federal election in 2011, the party won 0.8 % of the popular vote and 2 out of 200 seats. This was an increase from the 0.5% and 1 seat that had been won in 2007.[3] In 2003, it held one seat (out of 200) in the Swiss National Council (the first chamber of the Swiss parliament). It was not represented in the second chamber nor on the Swiss Federal Council (executive body).
In the Federal Assembly, the League sits with the Swiss People's Party. The party has some ties with the regional and federalist northern Italian party Lega Nord.
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