Ticino League
| Ticino League | |
|---|---|
| French name | Ligue des Tessinois |
| Italian name | Lega dei Ticinesi |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters |
Via Monte Boglia 3, CH-6900 Lugano |
| Membership (2011) | 1,500[1] |
| Ideology |
Right-wing populism[2] Euroscepticism National conservatism Isolationism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| International affiliation | None |
| European affiliation | None |
| Colours | Blue, Red |
| National Council |
2 / 200 |
| Council of States |
0 / 46 |
| Cantonal legislatures |
21 / 90 |
| Website | |
| lega-dei-ticinesi.ch | |
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Politics of Switzerland Swiss Federal Council | |
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. Bignasca (1945–2013) was the League's "president for life".
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 two seats. In the 90-seat Ticino legislature, (the Grand Council, Gran Consiglio) the party has 21 seats.
At the last federal election in 2011, the party won only 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.[4] 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 rightist party Lega Nord.
Literature
- Mazzoleni, Oscar (2005). Multi-Level Populism and Centre-Periphery Cleavage in Switzerland: The Case of the Lega dei Ticinesi. Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region (Brussels: P.I.E.-Peter Lang). pp. 209–228.
See also
References
- ↑ Der Bund kurz erklärt (in German). Swiss Confederation. 2011. p. 21.
- ↑ "Nationales Forschungsprogramm 40+".
- ↑ Total number of seats represents the Ticino Parliament, not the total number of cantonal parliament seats in Switzerland.
- ↑ "Nationalrat 2007".
External links
- Official website (in Italian)
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