Northern League party leader Matteo Salvini speaks during the finally rally ahead of the March 4 elections in Milan, Italy, March 2, 2018Abandon Euro, Kick Out Illegals: What Italy’s Lega May Do With Possible Mandate
SputnikNews.com
06.03.2018
With close to 70% of Italians voting for Eurosceptic parties in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, the right-wing La Lega (The League) party and its center-right coalition leader Matteo Salvini has a shot at becoming the country’s next prime minister. But what does he want for Italy? Sputnik recalls La Lega’s top five political positions.
Italy’s center-right electoral alliance, which includes La Lega, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, and the far-right Brothers of Italy took 37% of the vote, with La Lega accounting for 17% of that, thus turning it from a regional party in Italy’s north into the country’s third largest political force.
The M5S (Five Star Movement), an anti-establishment party which has described itself as being outside the traditional left-right paradigm, was the other big winner Sunday, taking 32.6%. With no party reaching the 40% minimum necessary to avoid a hung parliament, it may be up to President Sergio Mattarella to decide which of anti-establishment forces will have a better shot at governing if neither is able to form a majority coalition. Furthermore, Berlusconi’s Forza Italy, normally the dominant party in center-right coalition governments, would have to agree to give up its leading role.
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