Italian general election, 2008 (Veneto)
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The Italian general election of 2008
took place on 13–14 April 2008. The election was won in Veneto
by the centre-right coalition between The People of Freedom
and Lega Nord, as it happened at the national level. The People of Freedom was the largest party in the election with 27.4%, slightly ahead of Lega Nord (27.1%) and the Democratic Party
(26.5%).
Italian general election, 2008
A snap general election was held in Italy on 13 April and 14 April 2008. The election came after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved parliament on 6 February 2008 following the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a January 2008 Senate vote, and the unsuccessful tentative...
took place on 13–14 April 2008. The election was won 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...
by the centre-right coalition between The People of Freedom
The People of Freedom
The People of Freedom is a centre-right political party in Italy. With the Democratic Party, it is one of the two major parties of the current Italian party system....
and Lega Nord, as it happened at the national level. The People of Freedom was the largest party in the election with 27.4%, slightly ahead of Lega Nord (27.1%) and the Democratic Party
Democratic Party (Italy)
The Democratic Party is a social-democratic political party in Italy, that is the second-largest in the country. The party is led by Pier Luigi Bersani, who was elected in the 2009 leadership election....
(26.5%).
Lega Nord
- Stefano StefaniStefano StefaniStefano Stefani is a Venetist politician and leading member of Liga Veneta–Lega Nord.Stefani is a veteran member of the party, having joined Liga Veneta in the 1980s, well before its merger into Lega Nord. A strong proponent of the unity of the "Padanian peoples", from 1995 through 2002 he was...
- Matteo Bragantini
- Manuela Dal LagoManuela Dal LagoManuela Dal Lago is an Italian Venetist politician. She is member of Liga Veneta-Lega Nord.In the late 1970s she started her political career in the Italian Liberal Party, reaching the position of youth leader of the party in Veneto...
- Francesca MartiniFrancesca MartiniFrancesca Martini is a Venetist politician. She is a member of Liga Veneta-Lega Nord.She was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2001, but she failed re-election five years later...
- Massimo BitonciMassimo BitonciMassimo Bitonci is an Italian Venetist politician. He is member of Liga Veneta-Lega Nord.In 1993, he joined Lega Nord and was Deputy Mayor of Cittadella from 1994 to 2002. During his second term he joined Mayor Lucio Facco into Liga Veneta Repubblica. With the support of that party he ran for...
- Paola Goisis
- Alessandro Montagnoli
- Manuela Lanzarin
- Emanuela Munerato
- Giovanna Negro
The People of Freedom
- Niccolò GhediniNiccolò GhediniNiccolò Ghedini is an Italian lawyer and politician. He is the lawyer of the present prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi....
- Alberto GiorgettiAlberto GiorgettiAlberto Giorgetti is an Italian politician.A former member of the Italian Social Movement, in 1995 he joined National Alliance. Four times elected to the Chamber of Deputies , he has been regional leader of National Alliance since 2001...
- Aldo BrancherAldo BrancherAldo Brancher is an Italian politician. He served as a Minister without portfolio in the Government of Silvio Berlusconi for 17 days in June/July 2010, but was forced to resign due to a pending court case.-Early career:...
- Francesco De Luca
- Filippo Ascierto
- Marino ZorzatoMarino ZorzatoMarino Zorzato is an Italian politician from Veneto.A long-time Christian Democrat, he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies for Forza Italia in 2001, 2006 and 2006...
(replaced by Giorgio Conte on 10 June 2010) - Lorena Milanato
- Luca Bellotti
- Giustina DestroGiustina DestroGiustina Mistrello Destro is an Italian politician and entrepreneur.An entrepreneur by profession, Destro joined politics relatively late in her life. In 1999 she formed a list for Padua municipal election and ran as an independent candidate for mayor, with the support of centre-right parties,...
Democratic Party
- Massimo CalearoMassimo CalearoMassimo Calearo Ciman is an Italian entrepreneur and politician from Veneto.Before entering politics he held several leadership roles within Confindustria, at local and national level...
- Alessandro Naccarato
- Margherita Miotto
- Federica Mogherini
- Giampaolo Fogliardi
- Gian Pietro Dal Moro
- Federico Testa
- Daniela Sbrollini
Lega Nord
- Gianpaolo DozzoGianpaolo DozzoGianapaolo Dozzo is a Venetist politician and leading member of the Liga Veneta-Lega Nord.He joined Liga Veneta in 1984, twenty years before the foundation of Lega Nord, and was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1994 and then re-elected in 1996, 2001, 2006 and 2008...
- Guido Dussin
- Corrado Callegari
- Luciano Dussin
- Franco Gidoni
- Gianluca Forcolin
The People of Freedom
- Renato BrunettaRenato BrunettaRenato Brunetta is an Italian economist and politician and, as of May 2008, a minister in the Berlusconi government.He is a former member of the Italian Socialist Party, Member of the European Parliament for the North-East from 2004 to 2009 with the Forza Italia, part of the European People's...
- Adolfo Urso
- Fabio GavaFabio GavaFabio Gava is an Italian politician.A member of the Italian Liberal Party since 1967, he joined Forza Italia in 1993 following his long-time friend Giancarlo Galan. Elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1995, he was floor leader of Forza Italia and regional minister of Budget in Galan I...
- Valentino Valentini
- Maurizio Paniz
- Catia Polidori
Democratic Party
- Andrea Martella
- Pier Paolo Baretta
- Simonetta Rubinato
- Rodolfo Viola
- Delia Murer
- Francesco Tempestini
The People of Freedom
- Giancarlo GalanGiancarlo GalanGiancarlo Galan is an Italian politician.After having been a Liberal activist in the Seventies and the Eighties, he was not active in politics until he joined Forza Italia since its foundation in 1994. In the same year he was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies.In 1995 he ran successfully...
(replaced by Piero Longo on 29 April 2008) - Luigi Ramponi
- Maria Elisabetta Alberti CasellatiMaria Elisabetta Alberti CasellatiMaria Elisabetta Alberti Casellati is an Italian politician. She graduated from university with a degree in jurisprudence....
- Maurizio SacconiMaurizio SacconiMaurizio Sacconi is an Italian politician from Veneto.A long-time member of the Italian Socialist Party, from 1979 to 1994 he was a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and from 1987 to 1994 he served also as Under-Secretary of the Treasury...
- Maurizio Saia
- Paolo Scarpa Bonazza Buora
- Anna Bonfrisco
- Maurizio Castro
Lega Nord
- Federico BricoloFederico BricoloFederico Bricolo is an Italian politician. He is a Venetist, member of Liga Veneta-Lega Nord.He has been member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2001 to 2008, when he was elected to the Senate, where he chairs the parliamentary group of Lega Nord...
- Piergiorgio Stiffoni
- Paolo Franco
- Alberto Filippi
- Gianvittore Vaccari
- Gianpaolo Vallardi
- Luciano Cagnin
Democratic Party
- Enrico Morando
- Maria Pia GaravagliaMaria Pia GaravagliaMaria Pia Gravaglia is an Italian politician, former Italian Minister of Health during the Carlo Azeglio Ciampi government and currently is Deputy Mayor of Rome. She was member of Democrazia Cristiana, then of Italian People's Party and Democracy is Freedom – Daisy. She was extraordinary...
- Paolo GiarettaPaolo GiarettaPaolo Giaretta is an Italian politician from Veneto.He was born in Padua.A long-time Christian Democrat, Giaretta was Mayor of Padua from from 1987 to 1993. In 1994, after the dissolution of Christian Democracy, he joined the Italian People's Party and, later, to Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy...
- Felice CassonFelice CassonFelice Casson is an Italian magistrate and politician, who discovered the existence of Operation Gladio, a "stay-behind" NATO anti-communist army during the Cold War, while investigating an attack on three Carabinieri in 1972, for which two neo-fascists were convicted; the explosives used in the...
- Paolo Nerozzi
- Maurizio FistarolMaurizio FistarolMaurizio Fistarol is an Italian politician from Veneto.A member of the Italian Communist Party and, later, of the Democratic Party of the Left, Fistarol was elected Mayor of Belluno in 1993. Re-elected in 1997, he was active in the North-East Movement and The Democrats...
- Franca Donaggio
- Marco Stradiotto