Venetian nationalism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-18

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Venetian nationalism


00:03:33 1 Background and history
00:03:42 1.1 Annexation of Veneto by Italy
00:08:18 1.2 World Wars and the Italian Republic
00:11:22 1.3 Comeback of Venetist ideas
00:16:27 2 Recent developments
00:16:37 2.1 2012–2015 opinion polls on independence
00:18:21 2.2 Resolution 44/2012 on self-determination
00:20:30 2.3 Petition to the EU and international support
00:22:01 2.4 Further steps toward a referendum
00:25:26 2.5 Online referendum on independence
00:27:52 2.6 Autonomy referendum and negotiation
00:29:49 3 People and movements
00:34:20 4 Political parties
00:40:09 5 Achievements
00:40:18 5.1 Venetian language and culture
00:42:32 5.2 Statute of Veneto (1971 and 2011)
00:43:15 5.3 Resolution 42/1998 on self-determination
00:44:05 5.4 Acts 10/1998 and 28/2017: display of the Venetian flag
00:45:16 5.5 Act 28/2016: Venetians as "national minority"
00:45:58 6 Controversies
00:46:07 6.1 St Mark's Campanile assault
00:48:22 6.2 The MLNV and the "Venetian Police"
00:49:34 6.3 Cancellation of the annexation of Veneto
00:51:26 6.4 Garibaldi's effigy burning controversy
00:53:07 6.5 Alleged terrorist plot
00:56:53 7 See also



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Venetian nationalism (also Venetism, from the Venetian/Italian name, venetismo) is a nationalist, but primarily regionalist, movement active in Veneto, Italy, as well as in other parts of the former Republic of Venice.
It promotes the rediscovery of the Republic of Venice's heritage, traditions, culture, and language, and demanding more autonomy or even independence from Italy for Veneto. According to journalist Paolo Possamai, Venetism is "the strain of Veneto and Venetians toward the recognition of their identity and autonomy". Venetism is a broad movement, which definitely includes Venetist parties, notably Liga Veneta, but also encompasses people from all the political parties.
In 1982 Goffredo Parise, a writer and journalist, wrote: "Veneto is my fatherland. [...] Even if a Republic of Italy exists, this abstract idea is not my Fatherland [...]. We Venetians have travelled throughout the world, but our Fatherland, that for which we would fight if it were necessary to fight, is Veneto. [...] When I see "River sacred to the Fatherland" written on the bridges spanning the Piave, I am moved, not because I think of Italy, but rather because I think of Veneto.Most Venetists consider Veneto a nation distinct from Italy and often refuse the validity of the result of the referendum with which Veneto (or, better, Venetia, see below) was united with Italy in 1866. Some, as the members of the Venetian National Party/Veneto State and those of Venetian Independence, have long proposed a re-edition of that referendum and campaign for the independence of Venetia, a country that would be composed of all the territories of the historical Venetian Republic, covering current Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, large chunks of Lombardy (the provinces of Brescia and Bergamo, the area around Crema and a portion of the province of Mantua), and Trentino, which was never fully part of the Republic of Venice, but is broadly culturally Venetian. The proposal, regarding to Veneto alone, has more recently gained the support of Liga Veneta, the Government of Veneto, and the majority of the Regional Council of Veneto, which endorsed a bill aimed at organising the referendum in 2014. The Constitutional Court ruled that referendum out as contrary to the Constitution, but authorised an autonomy referendum, which took place on 22 October 2017. 57.2% of Venetians participated in the referendum and 98.1% voted "yes". Consequently, President of Veneto Luca Zaia started a negotiation with the Italian government.
Although it usually refers to the whole Venetian autonomist movement, the term "Venetism" is sometimes used to identify specifically culture-oriented Venetists, hardline Venetists or those Venetists who refuse the concept of Padania, a proposed country by Lega Nord,  ...