North-East Movement
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| name = North-East Movement
| native_name = Movimento Nordest
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| leader = Massimo Cacciari
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| foundation = 1997
| dissolution = c. 1999
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| ideology = Federalism{{cite book|author=Devi Sacchetto|editor=Ombre corte|title=Il Nordest e il suo oriente|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5SOAAAAMAAJ&q=movimento+nordest+cacciari|page=282|year=2004|isbn=9788887009477}}
Regionalism{{cite web|website=Demos & Pi|url=http://www.demos.it/2008/pdf/osservatorio_nord_est_18_11_08.pdf|title=Un Popolo delle Libertà per il Veneto?}}
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The North-East Movement ({{langx|it|Movimento Nordest}}) was a federalist political party active in Veneto, Italy.
History
The party was founded in 1997 and officially launched in January 1998 by the mayor of Venice, Massimo Cacciari, and the former president of the industrialists of Veneto, Mario Carraro.{{cite book|author=Dietmar Rost|editor=Lit|title=New Regional Identities and Strategic Essentialism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJwgAQAAIAAJ&q=movimento+nordest+cacciari|page=277|year=2008|isbn=9783825896560}}{{cite book|author=Filiberto Agostini|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PZv9CQAAQBAJ&dq=movimento+nordest+cacciari&pg=PA48|title=La Regione del Veneto a quarant'anni dalla sua istituzione.|editor=Franco Angeli Edizioni|page=48|year=2014|isbn=9788891703323}} It was also known as the "Catalan party".{{cite book|author=Claudio Baccarin|editor=Gregoriana libreria editrice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CeaIAAAAMAAJ&q=movimento+nordest+cacciari|title=Che fine ha fatto la DC? la diaspora democristiana a Padova e in Veneto|page=160|year=2000|publisher=Gregoriana libreria editrice |isbn=9788877061676 }} Mario Rigo, leader of the Lega delle Regioni (which brought together Lega Autonomia Veneta, Lega Autonomia Friuli and Lega Autonomia Trentino) had also joined the new movement.{{cite web|url=https://patrimonio.archivio.senato.it/inventario/fondi-acquisiti-dall-archivio-storico/mario-rigo/introduzione|title=Mario Rigoanni 1960 - 2016|website=Patrimonio dell'Archivio Storico Senato della Repubblica}} However, both Rigo and his direct collaborators adhering to the Lega delle Regioni were not immediately informed of the stipulation of the Constitution Act of the movement (drawn up at the end of 1997); indeed, the document was made known to Rigo, confidentially, only after several months.
Additionally, the North-East Movement was also joined by numerous young people belonging to the social centers of the north-east Italy.{{cite web|website=La Repubblica|title=Centri sociali per il Nord-Est|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1998/04/05/centri-sociali-per-il-nord-est.html|date=5 April 1998}}
The main purpose of the movement was to press the centre-left on the path of federalist reform of the Italian State{{cite book|author1=Filiberto Agostini|author2=Giovanni Silvano|editor=Franco Angeli Edizioni|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SYfVDwAAQBAJ&dq=movimento+nordest+cacciari&pg=PA63|title=Il Veneto dopo il Novecento|page=63|year=2020|isbn=9788835101291}} and to attract the Venetian voters in opposition to the secessionist policy of the Northern League.{{cite web|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,6/articleid,0530_01_1998_0012_0006_7440236/|website=La Stampa|title=Cacciari: muoviamoci subito contro la Lega|author=Cesare Martinetti|date=13 January 1998}}
The convergence of two characters so different from each other in the party leadership (Cacciari and Carraro) soon turned into a bitter clash between the two, both on the pages of the local press and during organizational assemblies where in the end the counting of votes effectively sanctioned the divorce, assigning the leadership of the movement to Cacciari through his operational arm, the former socialist Rigo.{{cite web|url=https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/atto/corte_costituzionale/caricaArticoloDefault/originario?atto.dataPubblicazioneGazzetta=2000-05-10&atto.codiceRedazionale=000C0402&atto.tipoProvvedimento=RICORSO%20PER%20CONFLITTO%20DI%20ATTRIBUZIONE|website=Gazzetta Ufficiale|title= Ricorso della regione Veneto, in persona del presidente pro-tempore della giunta regionale, autorizzato mediante deliberazione della giunta stessa n. 791 in data 10 marzo domiciliata presso lo studio dell'avv. Luigi Manzi, in Roma, via F. Confalonieri n. 5}}
Following a letter from Cacciari in which he accused him of mental constraints,{{cite book|author=Renzo Mazzaro|editor=Editori Laterza|title=I padroni del Veneto|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fb2ODAAAQBAJ&dq=movimento+nordest+cacciari&pg=PT152|year=2012|isbn=9788858103531}} on 31 July 1998 Carraro decided to leave the movement.{{cite web|url=https://www1.adnkronos.com/Archivio/AdnAgenzia/1998/07/31/Politica/MOVIMENTO-NORDEST-MARIO-CARRARO-SE-NE-VA_144600.php|website=La Repubblica|title=MOVIMENTO NORDEST: MARIO CARRARO SE NE VA|date=31 July 1998}} However, the day after Carraro's farewell to the movement, Cacciari invited him to go back, not understanding the political reasons for that abandonment.{{cite web|website=Adnkronos|url=https://www1.adnkronos.com/Archivio/AdnAgenzia/1998/08/01/Politica/MOVIMENTO-NORDEST-CACCIARI-MARIO-RITORNA_144600.php|title=Movimento Nordest:Cacciari, Mario ritorna|date=1 August 1998}}
On the occasion of the administrative elections of 1998, the movement scored a good result in the provincial election of Treviso (8.8% of the vote),{{cite web|website=La Repubblica|title=L'avanzata del Polo, Ulivo in difficoltà|url=https://www.repubblica.it/online/fatti/votmaggio/voto/voto.html|date=25 May 1998}} for which it competed with its own candidate, Gianni Maddalon; the movement quickly regressed after Cacciari's disengagement, more interested in coordinating with the other mayors of the Olive Tree, many of whom had joined the new Democrats' party. Rigo's movement then tried to extend beyond the borders of Veneto (taking the name of Lega delle Regioni at national level) and participating unsuccessfully in the 1999 European elections in a list with the Sardinian Action Party and the core of what would later become United Consumers. On 7 February 1999, on the occasion of the first convention in Noale, the social centers of the north-east also declared their withdrawal from the party.{{cite book|author=Gruppo Abele|editor=Feltrinelli|title=Annuario sociale 2000. Cronologie dei fatti, dati, ricerche, statistiche, leggi, nomi, cifre|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXigWep2PpAC&dq=movimento+nordest+cacciari&pg=PA118|page=118|year=2000|publisher=Feltrinelli Editore |isbn=9788807490088 }}
Despite its initial purpose, the North-East Movement was never able, during its short existence, to counter the great strength of the Northern League.{{cite web|url=http://www.osservatoriodane.it/pubblicazioni/il-nordest-anticipa-tutte-le-crisi-che-riscrivono-la-politica-italiana/|website=OSSERVATORIO DANE|title=Il nordest anticipa tutte le crisi che riscrivono la politica italiana}}
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{{Historical Italian political parties}}
Category:Political parties in Veneto
Category:1997 establishments in Italy