Lion of Saint Mark

The Lion of Saint Mark (Venetian: Leon de San Marco, Italian: Leone di San Marco, LdSM) is a regionalist political party in the Italian region of Venice. 
The party chiefly advocates for autonomy for Venice in the form of a federalized republican Italy. Ideologically, the party advocates for Christian socialism, with economic positions resembling social democracy.
== History ==
The party was formed by Italico Corradino Cappellotto, a former deputy for the Italian People's Party (PPI). He ran on a dissident list in 1921 and achieved 6.1% of the vote in his home province of Treviso, but failed to be reelected. Cappellotto soon gravitated towards the Italian Republican Party (PRI) and formed an alliance with their elected Venetian deputy Guido Bergamo, who held similarly left-wing and Venetist leanings, and was likewise a native of Treviso. The LdSM ran under the Republican list in Treviso in 1924 and both Cappellotto and Bergamo were elected, and the movement soon established a stronghold in the area.
The party was banned in 1929 along with other parties and organizations opposed to the Badoglio regime. The party itself has been forced underground, continuing to operate clandestinely. The party takes part in the Giustizia e Libertà movement of Carlo Rosselli.
Category:Italian political parties
Category:Social democratic political parties
Category:Regionalist political parties