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Venice Region Sees Daily Events in Striving for Independence

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Events and meetings are held on a daily basis across Veneto as economic issues have motivated the region to strive for independence, a leading activist told RIA Novosti Thursday.

MOSCOW, May 15 (RIA Novosti) – Events and meetings are held on a daily basis across Veneto as economic issues have motivated the region to strive for independence, a leading activist told RIA Novosti Thursday.

“We have events every day – yesterday, today, tomorrow,” said Alessio Morosin, a founding member and leader of the Indipendenza Veneta movement.

“Yesterday we had an event in Padua province, today in Vicenza, tomorrow in Belluno,” Morosin added.

Nicola Gardin, another founder of Indipendenza Veneta, said the “force in Veneto is the economy.”

On Wednesday, Venetian entrepreneurs gathered in Campo San Martino, Padua in support of the region’s independence. “When entrepreneurs are moving, it is important. Not only the people, but entrepreneurs ask for independence,” Gardin told RIA Novosti.

A large-scale event is planned for June 14 in Castel Brando that has provided a venue for independence supporters. The site is owned by Massimo Colomban, founder of Permasteelisa Group, a leading builder of architectural envelopes and interior systems.

“The event is important because we have never before organized a meeting at such a high level,” Gardin told RIA Novosti. “So you can understand the situation is really in motion also because on May 25 the country will go to the polls, and all Italian parties ask for votes from our movement,” Gardin said.

From May 22 to May 25, European voters will take to the polls for the 2014 European parliamentary elections, selecting 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to represent their interests for five-year terms.

Seats are allocated among the various countries on the basis of “degressive proportionality,” meaning countries with larger populations have more seats than smaller ones, but that smaller countries have more seats than strict proportionality would imply.

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