historic representations of the Venetian army (including flag-raising at the Festa dei Veneti), Europa Veneta, Par San Marco and Veneti Eventi. The Venetist movement has also several publications, notably including Quaderni Veneti and Rivista Veneti. In the midst of the above-mentioned campaign for a referendum on independence, two non-party committees were launched: Plebiscite 2013 and Let Veneto Decide (later supplanted by United for Independent Veneto/We Independent Veneto/Independence We Veneto, which in turn became an electoral coalition of parties). A string of new parties was founded before and after the 2015 regional election and in the run-up of the 2017 autonomy referendum. Political parties The first Venetist party in Veneto was Lion of Saint Mark''' (Leone di San Marco), active from 1921 to 1924 and commonly described as the forerunner of Venetian nationalist parties. It was founded by Italico Corradino Cappellotto, a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Italian People's Party. The party participated in the 1921 general election in the constituencies of the provinces of Treviso and Venice, winning 6.1% of the vote in the province of Treviso and scoring around 20% in the very rural areas that would become the heartland of Liga Veneta sixty years later. The party was suppressed by Italian Fascism, along all the other parties. Another Venetist party was the Venetian Regionalist Autonomous Movement (MARV), a cultural-political association, which was active in the 1960s. The first organised Venetist parties were started only after the institution of Veneto as Region and the direct election of the Regional Council in 1970. Some Venetian parties campaign for federal reform, others for autonomy or a special statute for Veneto, others for an autonomous North-East region including Veneto, Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, some others for outright independence. Since the late 1970s many regional parties were founded in Veneto, covering all the ideological spectrum: Liga Veneta (LV – started in 1979, part of Lega Nord since 1991) Liga Federativa Veneta (LFV – started in 1983, merged into MVRA in 1987) Liga Veneta Serenissima (LVS – started in 1984, merged into UPV in 1987) Venetian Most Serene Government (VSG – started in 1987, still active) Veneto Autonomous Region Movement (MVRA – started in 1987, merged into LVR/VdE in 2000) Union of the Venetian People (UPV – started in 1987, merged into LV in 1995) Lega Autonomia Veneta (LAV – started in 1991, merged into MNE in 1997) Liga Nathion