Ticino League

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The Ticino League (Italian: Lega dei Ticinesi) is a regionalist, national-conservative political party in Switzerland active in the canton of Ticino. The party was founded in 1991 by entrepreneur Giuliano Bignasca and journalist Flavio Maspoli. After some public campaigning in the Sunday newspaper Il Mattino della Domenica against political power and the use of public money, Bignasca and Maspoli founded the Ticino League to continue the fight at the political level. Bignasca (1945–2013) was the League's "president for life". The League is one of the four major parties in the canton, alongside the Liberal Radical Party (PLR), the Democratic People's Party (PPD), and the Swiss Socialist Party (PS). Since 1991, the party has been represented in the National Council and the five-member cantonal executive of Ticino (the Council of State, Consiglio di Stato) with two seats. In the 90-seat Ticino legislature (the Grand Council, Gran Consiglio), the party has 18 seats. At the 2011 federal election, the party won 0.8% of the national popular vote and secured two out of 200 seats in the National Council (the first chamber of the Swiss parliament), doubling their representation compared to the single seat they held in 2007 with 0.5% of the vote. In the 2015 election, the Ticino League slightly increased its share of the national vote to 1.0% and kept its two seats in parliament. The party is not represented in the Council of States nor on the Federal Council. The 2019 Swiss federal election cost the League one of its representatives in the National Council, as Roberta Pantani was unable to hold her seat. Lorenzo Quadri was re-elected as the League's sole representative in the Parliament. The League formed an electoral list with the Swiss People's Party (SVP) for the 2023 Swiss federal election; the SVP was seen as gaining...