Savoyan League Explained

The Savoyan League (fr|Ligue savoisienne, frp|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]

Notes and References

1. Book: Frans Schrijver. Regionalism After Regionalisation: Spain, France and the United Kingdom. 2006. Amsterdam University Press. 978-90-5629-428-1. 205.
2. Book: Daniele Caramani. Yves Mény. Challenges to Consensual Politics: Democracy, Identity, and Populist Protest in the Alpine Region. 2005. Peter Lang. 978-90-5201-250-6. 64, 89.
3. Book: Robin Adamson. The Defence of French: A Language in Crisis?. 2007. Multilingual Matters. 978-1-85359-949-1. 93.
4. Book: Anthony M. Messina. European Disunion? The Implications of Super Diversity for European Identity and Political Community. Andrew C. Gould. Anthony M. Messina. Europe's Contending Identities: Supranationalism, Ethnoregionalism, Religion, and New Nationalism. https://books.google.com/books?id=zCVOAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68. 2014. Cambridge University Press. 978-1-107-03633-8. 68.
5. Book: Anthony M. Messina. Assessing the political relevance of anti-immigrant parties: the BNP in comparative European perspective. Nigel Copsey. Graham Macklin. British National Party: Contemporary Perspectives. https://books.google.com/books?id=hg-tAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA167. 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-82062-5. 167.
6. 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.