Alessandra Guerra
Who was the chair of Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia from 2005 to 2007?
Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia Lega Nord Friuli-Venezia Giulia ( English : Northern League Friuli-Venezia Giulia , LNFVG ) is a regionalist political party in Italy that functions as the national ( hence , regional ) section of Lega Nord in Friuli-Venezia Giulia . The LNFVG is currently led by federal commissioner Vannia Gava . Two of its former leaders , Massimiliano Fedriga and Pietro Fontanini , are President of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Pietro Fontanini mayor of Udine , respectively . History . The party was founded in 1990 as Lega Friuli by leading members of the Friuli Movement , including Roberto Visentin , Pietro Fontanini , Rinaldo Bosco , Sergio Cecotti and Alessandra Guerra . After that the Friuli Movement decided not join Lega Nord , they formed Lega Friuli in order to join . Visentin was the longstanding leader of the party until 1999 . LNF members were President or Vice President of the Region ( 1993–2003 ) , President of the Province of Pordenone ( 1995–1999 ) , President of the Province of Udine ( 1995–1999 ) , mayor of Pordenone ( 1993–2001 ) and mayor of Udine ( 1998–2003 ) . The party was the regions largest at the 1993 regional election ( 26.7% ) and the 1996 general election ( 23.2% ) . In 2001 Lega Nord Friuli was merged with Lega Nord Trieste to form a united regional section . At the time the party suffered many splits and a strong decline in term of votes , especially if compared to neighbouring Liga Veneta . In the 2003 regional election Guerra was candidate for President of the House of Freedoms coalition . She was defeated by Riccardo Illy and the party gained only 9.3% of the vote . Between 2001 and 2007 Visentin , Bosco , Cecotti , Fontanini , Guerra , Giuseppe Zoppolato ( national secretary from 2000 to 2003 ) and Marco Pottino ( national secretary from 2005 to 2007 ) left or were ejected in party struggles . Guerra joined the Democratic Party in 2009 . In 2007 Fontanini was re-integrated in the party and in 2008 he was elected President of the Province of Udine and national secretary of the LNFVG . This represented a sort of return to normality for the party , which won 13.0% of the vote in the general election . At the 2009 European Parliament election the party won 17.5% of the vote , its best score in more than a decade . Moreover , from 2008 to 2013 the party was part of the regional government led by Renzo Tondo of The People of Freedom . In 2012 Fontanini , who had never been able to lead a party divided in too many factions ( notably including those led respectively by Claudio Violino and Enzo Bortolotti ) , stepped down from national secretary . Matteo Piasente was elected in his place with the support of 207 delegates out of 352 during a party congress . Fontanini , who grudgingly favoured Piasente , did not even take part to the congress , but nevertheless continued to be a leading member . In the 2013 regional election the LNFVG obtained a mere 8.3% of the vote and just three regional councillors , due to Tondos defeat . Soon after an expenses scandal , involving Regional Council floor leaders Danilo Narduzzi and Mara Piccin , emerged and the party looked increasingly divided among supporters of Piasente , including Violino and Narduzzi ( who promptly resigned from deputy national secretary ) , Massimiliano Fedriga and Fontanini , who asked Piasente to resign . He actually stepped down in late June and was replaced by federal commissioner Gianpaolo Dozzo , who strove to maintain party unity . In 2014 , at a congress in Udine , Fedriga was unanimously elected national secretary , the first hailing from the Venetian-speaking Trieste in partys history . In the 2018 regional election Fedriga was elected President with 57.1% of the vote and the party obtained 34.9% of the vote . Popular support . In the 2018 regional election the party obtained its best result until that moment : 34.9% of the vote . The partys strongholds are Carnia ( 46.5% ) , which is part of the province of Udine ( 34.2% , without Carnia , which forms a separate constituency ) , and the province of Pordenone ( 36.7% ) . The electoral results of Lega Nord in the region are shown in the tables below . Leadership . <onlyinclude> - National Secretary : Roberto Visentin ( 1990–1999 ) , Edouard Ballaman ( 1999–2000 ) , Giuseppe Zoppolato ( 2000–2003 ) , Fulvio Follegot ( 2003–2005 ) , Marco Pottino ( 2005–2007 ) , Manuela Dal Lago ( federal commissioner , 2007–2008 ) , Pietro Fontanini ( 2008–2012 ) , Matteo Piasente ( 2012–2013 ) , Gianpaolo Dozzo ( federal commissioner , 2013–2014 ) , Massimiliano Fedriga ( 2014–2019 ) , Vannia Gava ( federal commissioner , 2019–2020 ) , Marco Dreosto ( federal commissioner , 2020–present ) - National President : Rinaldo Bosco ( 1991–2003 ) , Alessandra Guerra ( 2005–2007 ) , Enzo Bortolotti ( 2008–2012 ) , Fulvio Follegot ( 2012–2015 ) , Mario Pittoni ( 2016–2019 ) </onlyinclude