Savoyan League

{{Infobox political party

| name = Savoyan League

|native_name = Ligue savoisienne (French)
Liga de la Savouè (Arpitan)

|country = France

|colorcode = #E20E0E

|logo = Image:Flag of Savoie.svg

|leader =

|foundation = 1995

|dissolution = 2012

|ideology = Regionalism
Separatism
Populism

|headquarters = 3, place du Val d'Arly
73400 Ugine|

|colors = white, red

|youth_wing =

|website =

}}

The Savoyan League ({{langx|fr|Ligue savoisienne}}, {{langx|frp|Liga de la Savouè}}) was a regionalist and populist political party based in Savoy, France.{{cite book|author=Frans Schrijver|title=Regionalism After Regionalisation: Spain, France and the United Kingdom|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u8gZklxHTMUC&pg=PA205|year=2006|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-90-5629-428-1|page=205}}

Founded in 1995, the party supported the independence of Savoy from France and the unification of the two departments of Savoy, named Savoie and Haute-Savoie, which have belonged to France since the Treaty of Turin in 1860.{{cite book|author1=Daniele Caramani|author2=Yves Mény|title=Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rwofe0Zg8MQC&pg=PA64|year=2005|publisher=Peter Lang|isbn=978-90-5201-250-6|pages=64, 89}} Formerly a member of the European Free Alliance,{{cite book|author=Robin Adamson|title=The Defence of French: A Language in Crisis?|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HrW7zPZ_zngC&pg=PA93|year=2007|publisher=Multilingual Matters|isbn=978-1-85359-949-1|page=93}} the party was generally pro-European in outlook,{{cite book|author=Anthony M. Messina|chapter=European Disunion? The Implications of Super Diversity for European Identity and Political Community|editor1=Andrew C. Gould|editor2=Anthony M. Messina|title=Europe's Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zCVOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68|year=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-03633-8|page=68}} while lying on the right of the political spectrum.{{cite book|author=Anthony M. Messina|chapter=Assessing the political relevance of anti-immigrant parties: the BNP in comparative European perspective|editor1=Nigel Copsey|editor2=Graham Macklin|title=British National Party: Contemporary Perspectives|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hg-tAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA167|year=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-82062-5|page=167}} The League co-operated with the Savoy Region Movement, which does not support independence but rather federalism and Savoyard autonomism.

In the 1998 regional elections, the League won 5.39% in Savoy (4.42% in Savoie and 6.05% in Haute-Savoie) and therefore won a seat in the Rhône-Alpes Regional Council. It did not participate in the 2004 regional elections.

At the party's 17th Congress on 21 October 2012, the Savoyan League suspended its activities.{{in lang|fr}} Patrick-Alain Bertoni, « [http://www.pour-la-savoie.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/2012.10.21-LS-LE-POISON-DE-LA-DIVISION.pdf Ligue savoisienne, congrès du Bois : "Le poison de la division" rendu responsable de sa soustraction du paysage politique] », Le Faucigny No. 43, 2012.

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