Va' pensiero Padania was a Northern-Italian electoral list for the 2001 general election.
In 2000 Lega Nord signed a coalition pact with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia. The Va' pensiero[1] list was designed to attract the disgruntled voters of Lega Nord in some key Senate constituencies that were not given to the party, in order to have one more elect to the Senate.[2]
The list gained 1.6% of the vote in Veneto, 0.8% in Lombardy and 1.1% Piedmont, doing particularly well in the constituencies of Vittorio Veneto (5.0%), Conegliano (4.5%), Varese (3.9%), Biella (4.0%) and Cuneo (4.1%).[3] In Varese the candidate for Va' pensiero was Giuseppe Leoni, a leading member of Lega Nord.[4] The list however failed its scope as Liga Fronte Veneto (4.9% in Veneto[5]) and Lega Alleanza Lombarda (5.4% in Lombardy[6]), two spin-offs of Lega Nord, attracted the vote of most Lega Nord dissidents and also of many voters who confused them with the mother party.