Piedmontese Union

Piedmontese Union (Union Piemontèisa, UP) was a regionalist political party active in Piedmont.

It was founded in 1981 by Roberto Gremmo, a former member of the Italian Communist Party. The party was soon joined by Gipo Farassino, another former Communist and well-known folk-singer. In the 1985 regional election UP won 1.1% of the vote under the banner of Liga Veneta.^[1]

In the

In 1989 Bossi welcomed both UP and PA into his Lega Lombarda – Alleanza Nord coalition for the European Parliament election. Gremmo refused to join forces again with Farassino and Borghezio, who were separatists while he was a federalist, and resigned from editor of Lombardia Autonomista, the official publication of Lega Lombarda. Subsequently, he refused to participate to the founding process of Lega Nord and UP started its decline.^[4]

In the 1990 regional election, UP won 2.3% of the vote and Gremmo was elected to the Regional Council, while PA gained 5.1% and three regional councillors.^[5] For the 1992 general election, Gremmo transformed the party into Lega Alpina Piemont (LAP), sister-party of the Lega Alpina Lumbarda: PA, now part of Lega Nord, won 16.3% in Piedmont, LAP just 2.2%.^[6] The party has since then disappeared. Among its successors one can count Lega Padana Piemont of Rabellino.

Leadership

• National Secretary: Roberto Gremmo (1981–1992)

References

Sources

• History of Piedmontese autonomism Archived 2012-02-13 at the Wayback Machine