Abstract
Abstract Like movements such as Vlaamsblock in Belgium and the National Front in France, the Northern League in Italy deployed an ethno-territorial identity to motivate and organize its supporters. Also like Vlaamsblock, it demanded the fiscal autonomy of Northern regions from the Southern ones, and a federal constitution to replace the unitary one. As the League becomes more involved in governing Italy, however, the movement has to decide if its goals are genuinely federalist, or if the rhetoric of autonomism was merely a strategy to gain power. Interviews with two League leaders reveal internal disagreement on these matters. It is not difficult to find League people in the Italian Parliament these days.
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