The Lega Autonomia Veneta (Venetian Autonomy League, LAV) was a centre-left regionalist political party in Veneto.
The party's long-standing leaders were Mario Rigo, a former Mayor of Venice (1975–1985) and MEP (1984–1989) for the Italian Socialist Party, and incumbent Senator,[1] and Oscar De Bona, Socialist President of the Province of Belluno since 1990.
In the 1990 regional election the party, at time called Iniziativa Civica ("Civic Initiative") won 0.9% of the vote, but, as Liga Veneta–Lega Nord boomed in the early 1990s, the party changed its name into Lega Autonomia Veneta, with a very small word "Autonomia",[2] and its symbol into former Liga's symbol the lion of Saint Mark.
[4][5] De Bona was re-elected President of the Province of Belluno for LAV and Dolomitic Agreement in 1995 and 1999, prior to joining the New Italian Socialist Party and the centre-right House of Freedoms.
The Movement of Cacciari was merged into The Democrats in 1999 and the League of Rigo disappeared by 2001.