Va' pensiero Padania was a Northern-Italian electoral list for the 2001 general election.
In 2000 Lega Nord signed a coalition pact with Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia.
The Va' pensiero[1] list was designed to attract the disgruntled voters of Lega Nord in some key Senate constituencies that were not given to the party and in which the centre-left was not competitive, in order to have one more elect to the Senate.
[2] Most candidates of Va' pensiero were members of the League, such as incumbent senator Giuseppe Leoni, who stood in Varese.
[3] Another leading member and future leader of Lega Padana Lombardia, Roberto Bernardelli, was to stand as candidate in opposition to Marcello Dell'Utri in a constituency in Milano, but later backtracked.