Lega dei Ticinesi

Lega dei Ticinesi

Establishment date:	January 17, 1991
Presidium:	Giuliano Bignasca (executive)
Members:	1,500 (as of 2014)
Proportion of women:	in the National Council: 0% (as of 2019)
Share of voters:	16.9% (as of: National Council election 2019)
National Council:	1/8
Council of States:	0/2
Fraction (BV):	SVP parliamentary group
Cantonal parliaments:	22/90 (As of April 2017)
Cantonal Governments:	2/5 (As of May 2017)
Website:	www.lega-dei-ticinesi.ch

The Lega dei Ticinesi ( German League of Ticino , French Ligue des Tessinois , colloquially called Lega in all language regions ) is a political party in Switzerland . It was founded in 1991 as a right-wing or right-wing populist protest party and is only active in the canton of Ticino .

history

The party was founded by the entrepreneur and former FDP supporter Giuliano Bignasca and the journalist Flavio Maspoli . In 1991, when Flavio Maspoli and Marco Borradori were founded, they managed to occupy two seats in the National Council and one seat in the Council of States with Giorgio Morniroli .

The Lega is against joining the European Union and in favor of a strict asylum policy. A particular annoyance for the party are the federal employees in Bern , who allegedly do not do enough for the interests of the canton of Ticino. After initially quick success in the home canton , the rise weakened. The party is represented in the national parliament by Norman Gobbi as a member of the SVP parliamentary group.

The Lega was able to keep its seat in the Ticino State Council in the cantonal elections in 2003 thanks to Marco Borradori, who was popular among the population . On the occasion of the State Council elections on April 1, 2007, Marco Borradori achieved the best result of all candidates with more than 81,000 votes. In the State Council elections on April 10, 2011, Borradori again achieved the best result of all candidates with 81,754 votes; Since the Lega also replaced the FDP (25.0%) as the party with the highest number of votes for the first time with 29.8% of the votes, Norman Gobbi, another Lega member, was able to move into the cantonal government.

The party's subsection for the younger generation (Giovani Leghisti) is led by Francesco Lovera in Lugano .

Politically, the Lega dei Ticinesi is close to the Swiss People's Party , the Auto Party and its Italian ( “Padan” ) “sister party” Lega Nord . However, in contrast to the Lega Nord, the Ticino lawyers have no intention of secession .

In March 2013, co-founder and president Giuliano Bignasca died . State Councilor Michele Barra died in October 2013.

Election results

The following table provides an overview of the Lega's election results in national and cantonal elections.

year	Switzerland National Council				Switzerland Council of States
	be right	% (CH)	% (TI)	Elected	Elected
1991	28,290	1.38%	23.5%	Flavio Maspoli Marco Borradori	Giorgio Morniroli
1995	17,804	0.95%	18.6%	Flavio Maspoli	-
1999	17,118	0.88%	18.5%	Flavio Maspoli Giuliano Bignasca	-
2003	7,304	0.35%	8.0%	Attilio Bignasca	-
2007	13'031	0.57%	14.0%	Attilio Bignasca	-
2011	18,956	0.79%	17.5%	Lorenzo Quadri Roberta Pantani	-
2015	24,713	0.99%	21.7%	Roberta Pantani Lorenzo Quadri	-
2019	18,187	0.75%	16.9%	Lorenzo Quadri	-

year	Canton of Ticino Great advice		Canton of Ticino State Council
	Be right (%)	Seats	Elected
1991	12.8%	12	-
1995	17.9%	16	Marco Borradori
1999	18.1%	16	Marco Borradori
2003	11.8%	11	Marco Borradori
2007	16.2%	15th	Marco Borradori
2011	22.8%	21st	Marco Borradori Norman Gobbi
2015	24.2%	22nd	Claudio Zali Norman Gobbi
2019	19.9%	18th	Norman Gobbi Claudio Zali