A report on Veneto and Forza Italia

Silvio Berlusconi during a meeting in May 1994.

Venice, the primary tourist destination and the capital of Veneto

Silvio Berlusconi with U.S. President George W. Bush in 2005.

Berlusconi addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress in 2006.

Berlusconi during a European People's Party meeting.

The Tetrarchs were the four co-rulers who governed the Roman Empire as long as Diocletian's reform lasted. Here they are portrayed embracing, in a posture of harmony, in a porphyry sculpture dating from the 4th century, produced in Anatolia, located today on a corner of St Mark's Basilica in Venice.

The Horses of Saint Mark, brought as loot from Constantinople in 1204.

An 18th-century view of Venice by Canaletto.

The 13th-century Castel Brando in Cison di Valmarino, Treviso.

St Mark's Basilica, the seat of the Patriarch of Venice.

The Prato della Valle in Padua, a work of Italian Renaissance architecture.

Antonio Canova's Psyche Revived by Love's Kiss.

The Church of Santa Maria della Salute in Venice

A trait that shows the structure of the Calà del Sasso

However, the party obtained substantial successes in the 1995 Italian regional elections, both in the North (winning in Piedmont, Lombardy and Veneto) and the South (Campania, Apulia and Calabria).

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After that, Veneto has been a stronghold of the centre-right coalition, which has governed the region since 1995, first under President Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia/The People of Freedom) and, since 2010, Luca Zaia (Liga Veneta–Lega Nord).

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Lega Nord

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Lega Nord (Northern League; abbr.

Umberto Bossi at the first rally in Pontida, 1990

Roberto Maroni speaks at the federal congress in Milan, 1 July 2012

Placard for the 2018 electoral campaign, resembling Donald Trump's one in 2016

Statue of Alberto da Giussano, the Medieval knight who inspired Umberto Bossi

Campervan of Lega Nord for the 2005 Tuscan regional election in Florence

The Sun of the Alps, the proposed flag for Padania by Lega Nord

Matteo Salvini speaks in a Lega Nord rally in Turin, 2013

"Festival of the Padanian Peoples" in Venice, 2011

Traditional rally of Lega Nord in Pontida, 2011

Traditional rally of Lega Nord in Pontida, 2013

At the 1983 general election, Liga Veneta (based in Veneto) elected a deputy, Achille Tramarin; and a senator, Graziano Girardi.

The party thus fought the 1994 general election in alliance with Berlusconi's Forza Italia (FI) within the Pole of Freedoms coalition.

The People of Freedom

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Centre-right political party in Italy.

The PdL, launched by Silvio Berlusconi on 18 November 2007, was initially a federation of political parties, notably including Forza Italia and National Alliance, which participated as a joint election list in the 2008 general election.

The PdL was also instrumental in the centre-right victories in Veneto and Piedmont, where two Presidents of LN, Luca Zaia and Roberto Cota respectively, were elected.

Christian Democracy (Italy)

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Christian democratic political party in Italy.

DC election poster for Mafia boss Giuseppe Genco Russo.

Pier Ferdinando Casini, representing the right-wing faction of the party (previously led by Forlani) decided to launch a new party called Christian Democratic Centre and form an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's new party, Forza Italia (FI).

In its early years the party was stronger in Northern Italy, and especially in eastern Lombardy and Veneto, due to the strong Catholic roots of that areas, than in the South, where the Liberal establishment that had governed Italy for decades before the rise of Benito Mussolini had still a grip on voters, as also the Monarchist National Party and the Common Man's Front did.