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Franco Rocchetta

April 13, 2024

Franco Rocchetta (born Venice, 12 April 1947) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, philologist and history populariser, who is usually described as the "father" of present-day Venetian nationalism and independentism.[1][2][3][4]

Franco Rocchetta in 2013.

Early life and political career edit

Since his university years, Rocchetta has been a Venetist, a Europeanist, and a passionate of historical, archeological and linguistic studies, and, as such, he was active in Radical and green movements.[5] Before coming of age, he was investigated for separatist writings on walls and for his solidarity with South Tyrolean activists.[6][7]

During the 1960s he was a member of the Italian Republican Party and the Italian Communist Party, which he left in order to join Lotta Continua in 1969.[6][7]

In 1978 Rocchetta founded the "Venetian Philological Society" (of which he was elected president).[8]

Liga Veneta and Lega Nord edit

In 1980 Rocchetta, who had been a candidate in the list led by Valdostan Union in the 1979 European Parliament election,[9] was instrumental in the foundation of Liga Veneta,[10][11][12] whose goal was to reorganise an independent Venetian Republic within a federal Europe.[13] Rocchetta was thus Liga Veneta's long-time national president and practical leader, having seized party's control over Achille Tramarin in 1984 and having been elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1985.

Having been a founding member of Lega Nord, along with Umberto Bossi, Franco Castellazzi, Giorgio Conca, Gipo Farassino, Riccardo Fragassi, Marilena Marin, Bruno Ravera, Francesco Speroni and Carla Uccelli,[14] in 1989, Rocchetta led Liga Veneta into Lega Nord, which became a federation from a confederation, in 1991. During the party's founding federal congress, he was elected federal president, a role he would keep until 1994. In the 1992 general election he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies and, after the 1994 general election, he joined Berlusconi I Cabinet as undersecretary of Foreign Affairs.[15]

In July 1994, after years of juxtaposition with federal secretary Bossi[16] on several institutional, organisational, ethnic, ethic and economic issues,[17][18] Rocchetta left the party before the end of a congress in which his wife and protégé Marilena Marin was replaced by Fabrizio Comencini as national secretary.[19][20] After his exit from Lega Nord, he unsuccessfully launched Liga Nathion Veneta.[21][22] He later joined the Federalists and Liberal Democrats and National Alliance, prior to leaving politics.[23]

Post-Lega Nord activity edit

Having left the Italian Parliament following the 1996 general election, Rocchetta, while continuing to be an active spokesman for Venetian nationalism, focused on pacifism and antimilitarism. In particular, in 1999 he went to Belgrade for what he described as a "mission of peace", along with some left-wing pacifists, notably including Luca Casarini, Gianfranco Bettin and Vitaliano Della Sala.[6] With his "Center for International Studies" dedicated to Paolo Sarpi, Rocchetta organised several initiatives with representatives of minorities, notably including those with Ibrahim Rugova in favour of a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Kosovo.[24] In 1999 Rocchetta was instrumental in the awarding to Rugova of the honorary citizenship of Venice by then-mayor Massimo Cacciari.[25]

Between the 1990s and the 2000s Rocchetta was honorary consul of the Republic of Macedonia in Venice.[26]

In 2013 Rocchetta returned to active politics after virtually 20 years of absence from the political scene as a member of Plebiscite 2013, a cross-party committee which organised the 2014 referendum on Veneto's independence,[27][28] which saw the participation of 63.2% of eligible voters and the support of 89.1% among them.[29][30] Later on Rocchetta, along with Andrea Arman and Giovanni Dalla-Valle, distanced from the Venetist organisation over disagreements with the "Delegation of Ten".[31][32]

In the 2014 centre-left primary election for selecting the candidate for President of Veneto, Rocchetta voted for Simonetta Rubinato, who lost to Alessandra Moretti.[33]

2014 arrest for alleged terrorism edit

Further information: Venetian nationalism § Alleged terrorist plot

On 2 April 2014, ten days after the 2014 Venetian independence referendum was held, Rocchetta was arrested, along with a group of Venetian separatists (including 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.[34] On 18 April Rocchetta, who had declared his innocence and pacifism since the beginning,[35][36] was released from prison as a tribunal in Brescia did not uphold the accusations.[37][38]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Alessandro Zuin (19 March 2014). "Saldatura Lega-indipendentisti Ma il Pd: "Le elezioni unico test"". Corriere del Veneto.
  2. ^ "Famiglia Cristiana n.40 del 11-10-98 - "Lotta di potere tra due mercenari" - Parla Franco Rocchetta". Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  3. ^ "LEGA: ROCCHETTA, BOSSI FEUDATARIO DI NUOVO CONTRO IL VENETO". 16 September 1998.
  4. ^ "la Repubblica/tre_uomini_in_bici: Ecco Velingrad paradiso del macho". www.repubblica.it. Retrieved Jan 26, 2021.
  5. ^ Alessandro Casellato, "«Identità Veneta». Appunti per una genealogia" ("... Franco Rocchetta, veneziano, classe 1947, era un cultore di studi archeologici e linguistici. In gioventù, nel 1969, mentre era studente universitario (medicina all'Università di Padova) aveva fatto parte di un gruppo ecologista radicale che aveva cercato di impedire il passaggio delle petroliere in laguna e che si era firmato «Fronte di Liberazione Veneto»..."), in Alessandro Casellato and Livio Vanzetto, "United Colors of Noaltri. Localismi e globalizzazione nel Veneto contemporaneo", Sommacampagna 2006
  6. ^ a b c Emiliano Fittipaldi (2 April 2014). "L'indipendentista veneto Rocchetta:'Non sono terrorista. Ecco la mia storia:Vengo dal Pc e Lotta Continua'". l'Espresso.
  7. ^ a b "Rocchetta, Chiavegato e i due ex Serenissimi: gli arrestati". www.ilgazzettino.it. 2 April 2014. Retrieved Jan 26, 2021.
  8. ^ "Ecco perché un veneto non guiderà mai la Lega Nord". 15 April 2012.
  9. ^ Alessandro Zuin (3 April 2014). "Il fondatore della Liga folgorato dal referendum: "Mi ha ridato l'energia"". Corriere del Veneto.
  10. ^ Giovanni Fracasso, Alle origini della Liga Veneta. Dall'embrione alla diaspora (1977-1987), Tesi di Laurea, Università di Cà Foscari, Venezia, Anno Accademico 1999-2000
  11. ^ Giannandrea Mencini, "Il Fronte per la difesa di Venezia e della Laguna e le denunce di Indro Montanelli, con un Saggio Introduttivo di Gherardo Ortalli ed un'Appendice di Paolo Rosa Salva", Venice 2005 : "...vi era poi un forte senso dell'appartenenza e della collettività fra i soci, a tal punto che non vi erano portavoci o responsabili. «Vorremmo, per abitudine di cronisti» continua Radius [Pietro Radius, "I crociati della Laguna", in Corriere d'Informazione, November the 19th and the 20th of 1970] «fare nomi e descrivere persone : il padre, il figlio, il nipote, l'amico, la ragazza in abito rosso, la giovane straniera. Ma essi ci hanno pregato di non farlo. Preferiamo che la gente parli solo del Fronte. I nomi non contano»..."
  12. ^ Centro Studi Internazionali Paolo Sarpi, 1969-1999 - Onore ai volontari veneti, a large placard (70x100 cm), printed in many languages, distributed and fixed in 1999 amongst the communities of the Venet Republic - from river Adda to Crete and Cyprus (both South- and North Cyprus) - and the venet communities scattered all over the world, quoted and partially transcribed in "Venetismi. Diario di un gruppo di studio sul Veneto contemporaneo, 1997-95", by Alessadro Casellato (editor), Sommacampagna 2000
  13. ^ Marc Lazar, L'Italie Existe-T-Elle? Entretien avec Franco Rocchetta, Politique Internationale, n° 58, Hiver 1992/1993
  14. ^ . Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2013-08-11.
  15. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-03-24. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  16. ^ Enrico Pucci, Il federalismo è un bluff. Lega serva di Roma, Bossi al guinzaglio di Silvio, La Tribuna di Treviso, the 7th of February 2011; vide : bossi/guinzaglio/tribunatreviso/cronaca/2011
  17. ^ Margarita Gómez-Reino Cachafeiro, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Italian Politics, Aldershot, Burlington, Singapore & Sydney 2002
  18. ^ Damian Tambini, Two interviews with Bossi and Rocchetta, Telos , Number 98-99, Winter 1993-Spring 1994
  19. ^ Osvaldo Migotto, Il Senatur è in acque torbide da molti anni. Intervista a Franco Rocchetta, Corriere del Ticino, the 7th of April 2012; vide : lega/acquetorbide/corriereticino
  20. ^ Marilena Marin and Franco Rocchetta, In reply to Gian Antonio Stella, in Corriere della Sera, October the 8th, 2011; vide : interventi e repliche-corriere-della-sera/marin/08 ottobre 2011
  21. ^ Francesco Jori, Dalla Łiga alla Lega. Storia, movimenti, protagonisti, Marsilio, Venice 2009, pp. 90-91
  22. ^ "Regional Council of Veneto – Electoral Archive". Retrieved Jan 26, 2021.
  23. ^ Deputati, La Camera dei. "La Camera dei Deputati". Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  24. ^ "Ecco chi è il padre della Liga Veneta". Retrieved Jan 26, 2021.
  25. ^ "KOSOVO: RUGOVA CITTADINO ONORARIO DI VENEZIA". 10 May 1999.
  26. ^ Lorenzetto, Stefano (6 June 2012). La versione di Tosi. Marsilio. ISBN 9788831733625.
  27. ^ . 29 July 2013. Archived from the original on 20 October 2016. Retrieved 31 March 2017.
  28. ^ "Il Veneto urla "indipendenza". C'è il quorum. C'è il sì - L'intraprendente". L'intraprendente.
  29. ^ "REFERENDUM DI INDIPENDENZA DEL VENETO: I RISULTATI". Repubblica Veneta, federale, indipendente, libera e sovrana.
  30. ^ "Veneto Libero, Indipendente (nella Nato in Europa e con l'Euro.... Il Problema è lo STATO ITALIANO) - Rischio Calcolato". Rischio Calcolato. Archived from the original on 2014-03-22. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  31. ^ "MARETTA TOTALE IN PLEBISCITO.EU. ROCCHETTA E ALTRI VOGLIONO CHIAREZZA". MiglioVerde. 11 September 2014.
  32. ^ http://www.miglioverde.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/LETTERA_DI_ROCCHETTA_ARMAN_DELLAVALLE.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  33. ^ Corriere del Veneto, 2 December 2014, p. 4.
  34. ^ R. Pol. (2 April 2014). "Indipendentisti, blitz all'alba: 24 arresti Sequestrato 'tanko', in manette Rocchetta". Corriere del Veneto.
  35. ^ "Rocchetta: sono innocente e pacifista". Corriere del Veneto. 5 April 2014.
  36. ^ "Rocchetta: Io innocente e pacifista". Tribuna di Treviso.
  37. ^ Andrea Priante (18 April 2014). "Scarcerati Rocchetta e Chiavegato Il riesame: cade l'accusa di terrorismo". Corriere del Veneto.
  38. ^ . Archived from the original on 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-29.

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This article contains weasel words vague phrasing that often accompanies biased or unverifiable information Such statements should be clarified or removed August 2017 Franco Rocchetta born Venice 12 April 1947 is an Italian politician entrepreneur philologist and history populariser who is usually described as the father of present day Venetian nationalism and independentism 1 2 3 4 Franco Rocchetta in 2013 Contents 1 Early life and political career 2 Liga Veneta and Lega Nord 3 Post Lega Nord activity 4 2014 arrest for alleged terrorism 5 See also 6 ReferencesEarly life and political career editSince his university years Rocchetta has been a Venetist a Europeanist and a passionate of historical archeological and linguistic studies and as such he was active in Radical and green movements 5 Before coming of age he was investigated for separatist writings on walls and for his solidarity with South Tyrolean activists 6 7 During the 1960s he was a member of the Italian Republican Party and the Italian Communist Party which he left in order to join Lotta Continua in 1969 6 7 In 1978 Rocchetta founded the Venetian Philological Society of which he was elected president 8 Liga Veneta and Lega Nord editIn 1980 Rocchetta who had been a candidate in the list led by Valdostan Union in the 1979 European Parliament election 9 was instrumental in the foundation of Liga Veneta 10 11 12 whose goal was to reorganise an independent Venetian Republic within a federal Europe 13 Rocchetta was thus Liga Veneta s long time national president and practical leader having seized party s control over Achille Tramarin in 1984 and having been elected to the Regional Council of Veneto in 1985 Having been a founding member of Lega Nord along with Umberto Bossi Franco Castellazzi Giorgio Conca Gipo Farassino Riccardo Fragassi Marilena Marin Bruno Ravera Francesco Speroni and Carla Uccelli 14 in 1989 Rocchetta led Liga Veneta into Lega Nord which became a federation from a confederation in 1991 During the party s founding federal congress he was elected federal president a role he would keep until 1994 In the 1992 general election he was first elected to the Chamber of Deputies and after the 1994 general election he joined Berlusconi I Cabinet as undersecretary of Foreign Affairs 15 In July 1994 after years of juxtaposition with federal secretary Bossi 16 on several institutional organisational ethnic ethic and economic issues 17 18 Rocchetta left the party before the end of a congress in which his wife and protege Marilena Marin was replaced by Fabrizio Comencini as national secretary 19 20 After his exit from Lega Nord he unsuccessfully launched Liga Nathion Veneta 21 22 He later joined the Federalists and Liberal Democrats and National Alliance prior to leaving politics 23 Post Lega Nord activity editHaving left the Italian Parliament following the 1996 general election Rocchetta while continuing to be an active spokesman for Venetian nationalism focused on pacifism and antimilitarism In particular in 1999 he went to Belgrade for what he described as a mission of peace along with some left wing pacifists notably including Luca Casarini Gianfranco Bettin and Vitaliano Della Sala 6 With his Center for International Studies dedicated to Paolo Sarpi Rocchetta organised several initiatives with representatives of minorities notably including those with Ibrahim Rugova in favour of a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Kosovo 24 In 1999 Rocchetta was instrumental in the awarding to Rugova of the honorary citizenship of Venice by then mayor Massimo Cacciari 25 Between the 1990s and the 2000s Rocchetta was honorary consul of the Republic of Macedonia in Venice 26 In 2013 Rocchetta returned to active politics after virtually 20 years of absence from the political scene as a member of Plebiscite 2013 a cross party committee which organised the 2014 referendum on Veneto s independence 27 28 which saw the participation of 63 2 of eligible voters and the support of 89 1 among them 29 30 Later on Rocchetta along with Andrea Arman and Giovanni Dalla Valle distanced from the Venetist organisation over disagreements with the Delegation of Ten 31 32 In the 2014 centre left primary election for selecting the candidate for President of Veneto Rocchetta voted for Simonetta Rubinato who lost to Alessandra Moretti 33 2014 arrest for alleged terrorism editFurther information Venetian nationalism Alleged terrorist plot On 2 April 2014 ten days after the 2014 Venetian independence referendum was held Rocchetta was arrested along with a group of Venetian separatists including 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 34 On 18 April Rocchetta who had declared his innocence and pacifism since the beginning 35 36 was released from prison as a tribunal in Brescia did not uphold the accusations 37 38 See also edit2014 Venetian independence referendumReferences edit Alessandro Zuin 19 March 2014 Saldatura Lega indipendentisti Ma il Pd Le elezioni unico test Corriere del Veneto Famiglia Cristiana n 40 del 11 10 98 Lotta di potere tra due mercenari Parla Franco Rocchetta Retrieved 31 March 2017 LEGA ROCCHETTA BOSSI FEUDATARIO DI NUOVO CONTRO IL VENETO 16 September 1998 la Repubblica tre uomini in bici Ecco Velingrad paradiso del macho www repubblica it Retrieved Jan 26 2021 Alessandro Casellato Identita Veneta Appunti per una genealogia Franco Rocchetta veneziano classe 1947 era un cultore di studi archeologici e linguistici In gioventu nel 1969 mentre era studente universitario medicina all Universita di Padova aveva fatto parte di un gruppo ecologista radicale che aveva cercato di impedire il passaggio delle petroliere in laguna e che si era firmato Fronte di Liberazione Veneto in Alessandro Casellato and Livio Vanzetto United Colors of Noaltri Localismi e globalizzazione nel Veneto contemporaneo Sommacampagna 2006 a b c Emiliano Fittipaldi 2 April 2014 L indipendentista veneto Rocchetta Non sono terrorista Ecco la mia storia Vengo dal Pc e Lotta Continua l Espresso a b Rocchetta Chiavegato e i due ex Serenissimi gli arrestati www ilgazzettino it 2 April 2014 Retrieved Jan 26 2021 Ecco perche un veneto non guidera mai la Lega Nord 15 April 2012 Alessandro Zuin 3 April 2014 Il fondatore della Liga folgorato dal referendum Mi ha ridato l energia Corriere del Veneto Giovanni Fracasso Alle origini della Liga Veneta Dall embrione alla diaspora 1977 1987 Tesi di Laurea Universita di Ca Foscari Venezia Anno Accademico 1999 2000 Giannandrea Mencini Il Fronte per la difesa di Venezia e della Laguna e le denunce di Indro Montanelli con un Saggio Introduttivo di Gherardo Ortalli ed un Appendice di Paolo Rosa Salva Venice 2005 vi era poi un forte senso dell appartenenza e della collettivita fra i soci a tal punto che non vi erano portavoci o responsabili Vorremmo per abitudine di cronisti continua Radius Pietro Radius I crociati della Laguna in Corriere d Informazione November the 19th and the 20th of 1970 fare nomi e descrivere persone il padre il figlio il nipote l amico la ragazza in abito rosso la giovane straniera Ma essi ci hanno pregato di non farlo Preferiamo che la gente parli solo del Fronte I nomi non contano Centro Studi Internazionali Paolo Sarpi 1969 1999 Onore ai volontari veneti a large placard 70x100 cm printed in many languages distributed and fixed in 1999 amongst the communities of the Venet Republic from river Adda to Crete and Cyprus both South and North Cyprus and the venet communities scattered all over the world quoted and partially transcribed in Venetismi Diario di un gruppo di studio sul Veneto contemporaneo 1997 95 by Alessadro Casellato editor Sommacampagna 2000 Marc Lazar L Italie Existe T Elle Entretien avec Franco Rocchetta Politique Internationale n 58 Hiver 1992 1993 Raixe Venete el jornale dei Veneti RaixeVenete net el sito Veneto in lingua veneta Dialetto veneto Archived from the original on 2013 10 04 Retrieved 2013 08 11 Governo Italiano I governi italiani Archived from the original on 2014 03 24 Retrieved 2014 03 24 Enrico Pucci Il federalismo e un bluff Lega serva di Roma Bossi al guinzaglio di Silvio La Tribuna di Treviso the 7th of February 2011 vide bossi guinzaglio tribunatreviso cronaca 2011 Margarita Gomez Reino Cachafeiro Ethnicity and Nationalism in Italian Politics Aldershot Burlington Singapore amp Sydney 2002 Damian Tambini Two interviews with Bossi and Rocchetta Telos Number 98 99 Winter 1993 Spring 1994 Osvaldo Migotto Il Senatur e in acque torbide da molti anni Intervista a Franco Rocchetta Corriere del Ticino the 7th of April 2012 vide lega acquetorbide corriereticino Marilena Marin and Franco Rocchetta In reply to Gian Antonio Stella in Corriere della Sera October the 8th 2011 vide interventi e repliche corriere della sera marin 08 ottobre 2011 Francesco Jori Dalla Liga alla Lega Storia movimenti protagonisti Marsilio Venice 2009 pp 90 91 Regional Council of Veneto Electoral Archive Retrieved Jan 26 2021 Deputati La Camera dei La Camera dei Deputati Retrieved 31 March 2017 Ecco chi e il padre della Liga Veneta Retrieved Jan 26 2021 KOSOVO RUGOVA CITTADINO ONORARIO DI VENEZIA 10 May 1999 Lorenzetto Stefano 6 June 2012 La versione di Tosi Marsilio ISBN 9788831733625 Franco Rocchetta testimonial di Plebiscito2013 eu La Repubblica Veneta del XXI secolo 29 July 2013 Archived from the original on 20 October 2016 Retrieved 31 March 2017 Il Veneto urla indipendenza C e il quorum C e il si L intraprendente L intraprendente REFERENDUM DI INDIPENDENZA DEL VENETO I RISULTATI Repubblica Veneta federale indipendente libera e sovrana Veneto Libero Indipendente nella Nato in Europa e con l Euro Il Problema e lo STATO ITALIANO Rischio Calcolato Rischio Calcolato Archived from the original on 2014 03 22 Retrieved 2014 03 24 MARETTA TOTALE IN PLEBISCITO EU ROCCHETTA E 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