Va' pensiero Padania was a Northern-Italian

Northern Italy

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 electoral list for the 2001 general election

Italian general election, 2001

A national general election was held in Italy on May 13, 2001 to elect members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic. The 14th Parliament of the Italian republic was chosen....

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In 2000 Lega Nord signed a coalition pact with Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi , also known as Il Cavaliere – from knighthood to the Order of Merit for Labour which he received in 1977 – is an Italian politician and businessman who served three terms as Prime Minister of Italy, from 1994 to 1995, 2001 to 2006, and 2008 to 2011. Berlusconi is also the...

's Forza Italia

Forza Italia

Forza Italia was a liberal-conservative, Christian democratic, and liberal political party in Italy, with a large social democratic minority, that was led by Silvio Berlusconi, four times Prime Minister of Italy....

. The Va' pensiero list was designed to attract the disgruntled voters of Lega Nord in some key Senate

Italian Senate

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 constituencies that were not given to the party, in order to have one more elect to the Senate.

The list gained 1.6% of the vote 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...

, 0.8% in Lombardy

Lombardy

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 and 1.1% Piedmont

Piedmont

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, doing particularly well in the constituencies of Vittorio Veneto

Vittorio Veneto

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 (5.0%), Conegliano

Conegliano

Conegliano is a town and comune of the Veneto region, Italy, in the province of Treviso, about north by rail from the town of Treviso. The population of the city is of around 36,000 people. The remains of a castle that was built in the 10th century remain on a nearby hill...

 (4.5%), Varese

Varese

Varese is a town and comune in north-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 55 km north of Milan.It is the capital of the Province of Varese. The hinterland or urban part of the city is called Varesotto.- Geography :...

 (3.9%), Biella

Biella

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 (4.0%) and Cuneo

Cuneo

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 (4.1%). In Varese the candidate for Va' pensiero was Giuseppe Leoni, a leading member of Lega Nord. The list however failed its scope as Liga Fronte Veneto

Liga Fronte Veneto

Liga Veneta Repubblica is a Venetist political party. The party maintains a mildly independentist position and campaingns the self-government of Veneto....

 (4.9% in Veneto) and Lega Alleanza Lombarda (5.4% in Lombardy), two spin-offs of Lega Nord, attracted the vote of most Lega Nord dissidents and also of many voters who confused them with the mother party.