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Matteo Salvini speaks during a Lega Nord rally, in 2013. In September 2013, Roberto Maroni, secretary of LN and Salvini's mentor, announced he would soon leave the party's leadership. [36] [37] After a few weeks, Salvini announced his candidacy for the first Lega's leadership election.
Lega (English: League), whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier (English: League for Salvini Premier; abbr. LSP), is a right-wing populist political party in Italy, led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord (English: Northern League, LN).
Matteo Salvini speaks in a Lega Nord rally in Turin, 2013. The party takes a tough stance on crime, illegal immigration, [282] especially from Muslim countries, and terrorism. It supports the promotion of immigration from non-Muslim countries in order to protect the "Christian identity" of Italy and Europe, which according to party officials ...
Matteo Salvini was accused of kidnap and dereliction of duty for refusing to let a rescue boat dock in 2019. ... Members of Salvini's Lega party rallied around him. On Wednesday, Lega MEPs turned ...
Us with Salvini (Italian: Noi con Salvini, NcS) was a populist political party in Italy. [1] [2] The party, founded by Matteo Salvini on 19 December 2014, was the sister party of Lega Nord (LN) for southern Italy, [1] [3] Lazio, [4] [5] [6] and Sardinia [7] [8] (where the LN regional section was never recognised as one of its "national" sections, and where the party joined forces with the ...
In September 2013 Roberto Maroni, who had been secretary of the party for just about a year, announced he would soon step down from the party's leadership. [1] [2]A federal congress was scheduled for mid December and five candidates filed their bid to become secretary: Umberto Bossi (the party's founder and former leader), Matteo Salvini, Giacomo Stucchi, Manes Bernardini and Roberto ...
Umberto Bossi, the founder of LN, support Giovanni Fava and his plan of approach to Forza Italia and Silvio Berlusconi from which the LN has gradually gone away (in favor of Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy) during Salvini's leadership since the previous primary election of December 2013. On 14 May Salvini was re-elected secretary by a ...
An Italian prosecutor on Saturday asked a judge to sentence right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini to six years in prison over his 2019 decision to prevent more than 100 migrants from landing in ...