Ilario Lanivi (born 16 April 1939) is an Italian politician from the Aosta Valley who has been highly involved in the formation of a number of political parties.
Lanivi parted ways with them in 1970 when a faction broke off to form the left-wing Popular Democrats, which merged with the Progressive Valdostan Union in 1984 to become Progressive Democratic Autonomists, of which Lanivi was a leading member.
On 9 March 1991 Lanivi and Amato Maquignaz founded a new political party, the Independent Autonomists.
[1] In April 1992, Lanivi was elected president of the Aosta Valley region, heading a coalition composed by the Valdostan Union, the Democratic Party of the Left, the Italian Socialist Party, the Progressive Democratic Autonomists and the Italian Republican Party.
[1] In 1993, Lanivi founded For Aosta Valley together with Cesare Dujany, former leader of the Popular Democrats.