Future Veneto was a short-lived Venetist

Venetism

Venetian nationalism is an ideology and a regionalist movement demanding more autonomy, or even independence from Italy, for Veneto, and promoting the re-discovery the Republic of Venice's heritage, traditions, culture and language...

 political party active in Veneto

Veneto

Veneto is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in Italy.Veneto had been for more than a millennium an independent state, the Republic of Venice, until it was eventually annexed by Italy in 1866 after brief Austrian and French rule...

.

In 1999 Giuseppe Ceccato

Giuseppe Ceccato

Giuseppe Ceccato is a Venetist politician.He joined Liga Veneta in the 1980s, long before the foundation of Lega Nord in 1991. He was twice elected to the Italian Senate in 1994 and 1996. After the split of Liga Veneta Repubblica in 1998, he was elected national president of Liga Veneta. However...

, national president of Liga Veneta

Liga Veneta

Liga Veneta is a regionalist political party based in Veneto, combining Venetism and fiscal federalism. Liga Veneta is by far the largest party in Veneto and the party of Luca Zaia, President of Veneto since March 2010.It was the first party of its kind in Northern Italy, predating Umberto...

 and senator, was expelled from Lega Nord (the federal party of which Liga Veneta is the "national" section in Veneto). Shortly after he launched VF as Venetian section of the Autonomists for Europe

Autonomists for Europe

Autonomists for Europe is a minor regionalist, Christian-democratic and liberal Italian political party. Founded in 2000 by splinters of Lega Nord as a potentially dangerous competitor, is now a rather marginal force...

, an unsuccessful effort to challenge Lega Nord as main regionalist party in Northern Italy

Northern Italy

Northern Italy is a wide cultural, historical and geographical definition, without any administrative usage, used to indicate the northern part of the Italian state, also referred as Settentrione or Alta Italia...

. The party was integrated into Liga Veneta Repubblica/Veneti d'Europa for the 2000 regional election

Venetian regional election, 2000

The Venetian regional election of 2000 took place on 16 April 2000.Giancarlo Galan was re-elected for the third time President of the Region by a landslide over the centre-left candidate Massimo Cacciari ....

 (2.4% and no regional councillors elected) and then ceased to exist as an independent political force.

Sources

• Francesco Jori, Dalla Łiga alla Lega. Storia, movimenti, protagonisti, Marsilio, Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
   2009
• Ezio Toffano, Short History of the Venetian Autonomism, Raixe Venete
  Raixe Venete
  Raixe Venete is a Venetist cultural association.Every year it organizes the Festa dei Veneti in Cittadella, where Venetists of every political colour, Venetist associations, actors, musicians and rock bands, and many simple citizens gather and whose website is translated in several languages...