Abstract
Representatives of the the Lega Lombarda sit with the SNP and with Catalan nationalists in the European Parliament, but it is anything but clear whether the Lega is fundamentally at one with regionalist or nationalist movements from other parts of Europe. The Italian variant of democratic politics is always distinct; with exasperating frequency, surface similarities and even shared names conceal profound divergences. The Lega Lombarda has been a presence in Italian politics since its foundation in 1984 and a force since 1987 when its leader Umberto Bossi was elected to the Senate. Since then, Bossi's virulent denunciation of the traditional parties and their ways, and his advocacy of a new federal Italy, have been heard with increasing stridency. However, to borrow a phrase from Irish politics, the Lega could be viewed as an Italian solution to an Italian problem, and, as with many Italian solutions, there are those who believe that the cure will be worse than the disease.
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