Venetian People's Unity

The Venetian People's Unity (Unitá Popołare Veneta, UPV) is a Venetist socialist and separatist political party.

Founded in 2008, the party seeks to represent the Venetian left wing and takes example from Herri Batasuna.

[2] In November 2009 the UPV joined other separatist parties, including the more mainstream Liga Veneta Repubblica and grassroots Venetians Movement, to form Veneto Freedom.

[3][4] However, as soon as in January 2010, the coalition was disbanded and its independentist core formed a more coherent outfit, the Party of the Venetians (PdV).

[9][10] In April 2014 Lovato was arrested, along with a group of Venetian separatists (including Franco Rocchetta, leading members of the Venetian Most Serene Government and the European Federalist Free Entrepreneurs), for suspected crimes including criminal association for terrorism and subversion of the democratic order.