Gianfranco Miglio

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Gianfranco Miglio (born January 11, 1918 in Como , † August 10, 2001 in Como) was an Italian lawyer, political scientist and politician. He taught at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and was head of its political science department from 1959 to 1988. Miglio made u. a. the work of Max Weber known in Italy and translated the writings of Lorenz von Stein and Carl Schmitt into Italian . In the 1990s he was seen as a pioneer of the Lega Nord , which called for autonomy or separation of affluent northern Italy from the rest of the country.

Lega Nord thought leader

Immediately after Northern Italy was liberated from fascism , he was one of the founders of the political circle "Il Cisalpino" , whose program provided for the division of the Italian national territory into cantons based on the Swiss model. From the 1980s, Miglio again propagated the concept of federalism and called for a fundamental constitutional reform. Since 1990 he has approached the Lega Nord and was Italian senator for it from 1992 to 2001 . In this capacity, during the state crisis that followed the collapse of the party system following the discovery of a large-scale corruption scandal by the Mani pulite investigations, he presented a plan for the federal reorganization of Italy: This envisaged dividing the country into three major regions (the north or Padania , the center or Etruria and the south or Mediterranea ) and five autonomous regions, each of which, according to Miglio, had different historically grown traditions. Miglio's concept also envisaged the establishment of a central government consisting of the governors of the three macro-regions, a representative of the five autonomous regions and the President . The latter should be directly elected by all citizens and represent the unity of the country. However, this plan, which he had presented in the decalogo di Assago in 1993, was hardly taken up by the Lega and was soon forgotten. After party leader Umberto Bossi decided in 1994 to join the government of Silvio Berlusconi , he accused him of opportunism and left the party. He founded the short-lived Partito Federalista , which was unsuccessful in elections .

Web links

• Article about Gianfranco Miglio in the online encyclopedia Treccani , accessed August 12, 2013 (Italian).