ABSTRACT
The traditional “Southern question” was thus overturned and replaced in the public debate by the so-called “Northern question”. The party led by Umberto Bossi gradually qualified itself as the main interpreter of the problems, interests and demands expressed by the civil society of the northern regions. The League tried to substantiate its battle for the Northern regions’ autonomy with the invention of “Padania”, a new “Nation” 2 that demanded independence.
