With the launch of the website “comitatofederale.org,” the challenge launched by a group of former parliamentarians and provincial secretaries of the Lega is gaining momentum to convene the congress of the Lega Nord for the independence of Padania and take control of the party and its symbol (Alberto da Giussano). The mastermind behind the operation is former Lega parliamentarian Gianluca Pini in a showdown against the current management of the old party, overseen by the Salvinian deputy Igor Iezzi. This is confirmed by Pini himself, promoter of the “Committee for the Federal Congress,” who explains: «We had already collected almost 300 signatures the old-fashioned way, but now we have decided to complete all the necessary formal steps and from this afternoon the site is online. This is about being able to exercise one’s right to do politics within the political movement we have always adhered to (the Lega Nord, ed.) and not being prevented from doing so due to decisions that do not serve the current interests of the Lega Nord».
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The two Legas
The Lega for Salvini Premier and the Lega Nord both have headquarters on via Bellerio, but the former is a sort of spin-off of the latter, now inactive and downgraded to a “bad company” required to pay the State the famous 49 million euros in electoral reimbursements from the Bossi administration deemed irregular by the magistrates. And to which several thousand people continue to allocate their 2 per thousand.
The commissioner management
The last congress of the Lega Nord was held in Milan in 2019, when the coexistence between the old Lega Nord and the new Lega for Salvini Premier was established and political activity was effectively transferred to the latter. Since then, the old movement has been entrusted, precisely, to a commissioner management. In fact, it is a dormant structure. But it is the Lega Nord, holder of the symbol with Alberto da Giussano, that authorized its electoral use by the Lega for Salvini Premier. And many militants hold dual membership cards. For this reason, the congress would not be just a gathering of veterans. It could reconstitute the bodies of the old movement, elect new leaders, and reopen the discussion on the management of its political and symbolic heritage.
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The battle for convening the Congress
The statute establishes that the Federal Congress is the representative body of all members and must be convened ordinarily every five years. And since, according to the promoters of the initiative, the ordinary term provided by the statute has long passed, Article 20 of the Civil Code comes into play, the path the Committee intends to follow: the rule indeed provides that the assembly must be convened when requested with justification by “at least one tenth of the members” and that, if the administrators do not act, it can be ordered by the president of the court. For this reason, the collection of signatures from a political initiative can turn into a legal battle.
The necessary signatures
The goal is to understand how many ordinary militant members are ready to formally support the initiative. And how many endorsements are needed to reach the necessary quorum, since it is not clear how many members the Lega Nord currently has. «I remind you that the subscriptions are free of charge and guaranteed anonymous – specifies Pini -. The names will not be made public, nor disclosed to third parties but only used to formalize the request for the celebration of the Congress; a mandatory step to scrap the long and failed experience of Salvini Premier».
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