Salvini: I want a Pontida South – Leonardo.it

Matteo Salvini appears to think more and more big and wants to further widen its constituencies. Despite its name, the Lega Nord look further south, to the point that in the future could get a party rally in southern Italy.

After the meeting of the League , which was held last weekend as usual in Pontida , a small town in the province of Bergamo in Lombardy, soon there may be an appointment even further south. This was announced by the same Salvini.

From the stage of Pontida, Salvini said: “Friends of the south, you are my brothers. If we win, we do it all together from north to south. ” It announced: “We are thinking of a Pontida South . There are already proposals for town ready to welcome us. “

A not at all convinced that this opening of the southern electorate Matteo Salvini, however, is the former leader of the Northern League, Umberto Bossi , which has responded by saying: “As long as I’m here there is nothing national, there is only the national-Po. The North is against what is Italian. “

In its opposition to the positions of Salvini is also the deputy chairman of the Senate Roberto Calderoli , which said:” After giving birth to new Statute yesterday, I read today that we have created a National League. Do you think I have a grandfather who founded a movement in Bergamo with the motto “Bergamo nation everything else is the south” and I cut a hand rather than a statute national and centralist. The League has always only one purpose, which is the independence of Padania. “

At the last meeting of Pontida also attended by a hundred activists of the League arrived from Campania , between the mayor of Roccagloriosa in Cilento Nicola Marotta and Gianluca Cantalamessa, the son of former MEP MSI Antonio and provincial coordinator of Naples, who commented very positively the experience: “We were very well received. It was really a thrill. Yes, of course, with so many of them we had already seen in Rome, at the event on 28 February in Piazza del Popolo for a protest against the government’s economic policy. But here, he wants to put ?, was the party National People … “.