Fabrizio Comencini

Fabrizio Comencini (Garda, 6 November 1953) is an Italian Venetist politician.

A former member of the Italian Social Movement (for which he was elected member of the Veneto Regional Council in 1985 and 1990), he then switched to the Liga Veneta–Lega Nord. Re-elected for this party in the Regional Council, he was national secretary of Liga Veneta from 1995 to 1998. During his leadership, the Lega Nord had its best electoral result in Veneto, scoring 29.7% of the votes, even more than in Lombardy.

In 1998 Comencini broke with Umberto Bossi in the name of Venetian nationalism as opposed to Padanian nationalism. Moreover he had long supported entering in alliance with Giancarlo Galan's Forza Italia and thus joining the regional government. Although he commanded a majority of the members of the regional councillors of Liga Veneta, 7 out of 10: Ettore Beggiato, Alessio Morosin, Mariangelo Foggiato, Alberto Poirè, Michele Munaretto, Franco Roccon plus he himself), Comencini was not supported by the majority of Liga Veneta who supported Gian Paolo Gobbo instead. He thus resigned as national secretary and formed a new party called Liga Veneta Repubblica (later Veneti d'Europa, Liga Fronte Veneto and, again, Liga Veneta Repubblica).

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