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The Ticino League (Italian: Lega dei Ticinesi) is a regionalist,[8] national-conservative political party in Switzerland active in the canton of Ticino.
The party was founded in 1991 by entrepreneur Giuliano Bignasca and journalist Flavio Maspoli.[5] After some public campaigning in the Sunday newspaper Il Mattino della Domenica [it] against political power and use of public money, Bignasca and 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 the Liberal Radical Party (PLR), the Democratic People's Party (PPD), and the Swiss Socialist Party (PS). Since 1991, the party has been represented in the National Council and in the five-member cantonal executive of Ticino (the Council of State, Consiglio di Stato) with two seats. In the 90-seat Ticino legislature, (the Grand Council, Gran Consiglio) the party has 18 seats.
At the 2011 federal election, the party won 0.8% of the national popular vote and secured 2 out of 200 seats in the National Council (the first chamber of the Swiss parliament), doubling their representation compared to the single seat they held in 2007 with 0.5% of the vote.[9] In the 2015 election, the Ticino League slightly increased their share of the national vote to 1.0% and kept their two seats in parliament.[10] The party is not represented in the Council of States nor on the Federal Council.
The 2019 Swiss federal election cost the League one of its representatives in the National Council as Roberta Pantani [de] was unable to hold her seat. Lorenzo Quadri was re-elected as the League’s sole representative in the Parliament.[11] The League formed an electoral list with the SVP for the 2023 Swiss federal election;[12] the SVP was seen as gaining support at the League's expense.[13][14]
^https://www.laregione.ch/cantone/ticino/1724921/norman-antonella-boglia-bignasca-attil Lega, Norman Gobbi svela i suoi quattro vicecoordinatori
^The Swiss Confederation — A Brief Guide. Federal Chancellery. 2015. p. 21. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
^ abNordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Switzerland". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
^"Nationales Forschungsprogramm 40+".
^ abcd Ghiringhelli, Andrea: Ticino League in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 10 March 2017.
^Heiko Borchert (2013). "Switzerland and Europe's Security Architecture: The Rocky Road from Isolation to Cooperation". In Erich Reiter; Heinz Gärtner (eds.). Small States and Alliances. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 168. ISBN 978-3-662-13000-1.
^The Swiss Confederation – a brief guide. Switzerland: Federal Chancellery, Communication Support, Swiss Confederation. 2016. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
^Damir Skenderovic (2009). The Radical Right in Switzerland: Continuity and Change, 1945–2000. Berghahn Books. pp. 114–122. ISBN 978-1-84545-580-4.
^"Nationalrat 2007".
^Bundesamt für Statistik. "Nationalratswahlen: Übersicht Schweiz". Retrieved 2015-10-19.
^"La Lega si lecca le ferite, Quadri in lacrime". Corriere del Ticino (in Italian). 2019-10-20.
^Niedermann, Marcel (10 August 2023). "Tessiner SVP mischt den Status quo auf". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). Retrieved 28 October 2023.
^Thürkauf, Karoline (27 October 2023). "Die SVP gräbt der einst stolzen Lega dei Ticinesi das Wasser ab". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). Retrieved 28 October 2023.
^Thürkauf, Karoline (7 June 2022). "Die rechtspopulistische Lega dei Ticinesi ist in der Krise". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). Retrieved 28 October 2023.
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