Savoyan League

Savoyan League Ligue savoisienne (French) Liga de la Savouè (Arpitan)
Founded	1995
Dissolved	2012
Headquarters	3, place du Val d'Arly 73400 Ugine
Ideology	Regionalism Separatism Populism
Colors	white, red
Politics of France Political parties Elections

The Savoyan League (French: Ligue savoisienne, Arpitan: Liga de la Savouè) was a regionalist and populist political party based in Savoy, France.^[1]

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.^[1][2] Formerly a member of the European Free Alliance,^[3] the party was generally pro-European in outlook,^[4] while lying on the right of the political spectrum.^[5] 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.^[2] 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.^[6]

References

1. Frans Schrijver (2006). Regionalism After Regionalisation: Spain, France and the United Kingdom. Amsterdam University Press. p. 205. ISBN 978-90-5629-428-1.
2. Daniele Caramani; Yves Mény (2005). Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region. Peter Lang. pp. 64, 89. ISBN 978-90-5201-250-6.
3. Robin Adamson (2007). The Defence of French: A Language in Crisis?. Multilingual Matters. p. 93. ISBN 978-1-85359-949-1.
4. Anthony M. Messina (2014). "European Disunion? The Implications of Super Diversity for European Identity and Political Community". In Andrew C. Gould; Anthony M. Messina (eds.). Europe's Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism. Cambridge University Press. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-107-03633-8.
5. Anthony M. Messina (2013). "Assessing the political relevance of anti-immigrant parties: the BNP in comparative European perspective". In Nigel Copsey; Graham Macklin (eds.). British National Party: Contemporary Perspectives. Routledge. p. 167. ISBN 978-1-136-82062-5.
6. (in French) Patrick-Alain Bertoni, « Ligue savoisienne, congrès du Bois : "Le poison de la division" rendu responsable de sa soustraction du paysage politique », Le Faucigny No. 43, 2012.