Italian Right Scores Huge Election Victory, Plans to Scrap ‘Idiotic Sanctions’
SputnikNews.com
01.07.2017
Center-right parties Forza Italia and Lega Nord romped to success in last week’s mayoral elections, which opens the possibility of a right-wing coalition after national elections next spring, Maurizio Gasparri, Vice-President of the Italian Senate, told Sputnik Italia.
On June 25, voters across Italy went to the polls for the second round of mayoral elections, in which the center-right parties Lega Nord, Fratelli d’Italia and Forza Italia did particularly well.
In Genoa, a former left-wing stronghold for 50 years, a right-wing alliance of Lega Nord and Forza Italia won 55 percent of the vote.
Right-wing candidates also unexpectedly won majorities in cities such as Aquila, Verona, Como and Monza.
Lega Nord leader Matteo Salvini said the results are encouraging, ahead of national elections in May 2018.
“I can’t wait to export the model from these local elections to the national level,’ a jubilant Salvini told a press conference.
“If, after decades, they ask us to govern in Genoa, Pistoia or Sesto San Giovanni, it means that we can govern the country too.”
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