Europe must be rebuilt around people, not bureaucracy – leader of Italy’s anti-EU Lega Nord

Salvini’s party won over 18 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election, according to preliminary results. To maximize its success in both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, Lega Nord opted for a center-right bloc with former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.

The center-right coalition has won and can govern, Salvini said, referring to the bloc’s overall preliminary result of about 37 percent. And the politician had already claimed he would be the leader of the center-right coalition.

Salvini, however, ruled out a broad coalition government.

The 44-year-old also criticized the official currency of the European Union, the euro. It was and remains a mistake, he stressed.

However, he noted that holding a referendum over Italy’s use of single currency was “unthinkable.” Salvini has repeatedly called the currency “a crime against humanity.”

He also took a tough stance against uncontrolled immigration, especially following the 2015 migrant influx into Europe. Communities in European states, including Italy and Germany, have voiced serious concerns that they have been left alone while being overwhelmed by the numbers of migrants.

Lega Nord has been governing the northern region of Lombardy since 2013 and Veneto since 2010. The party defended the “interests of the north, of the old country, so they moved [to] the right of the political spectrum in the last year, but they are not seen as a far-right party, even if you can tell that they are actually,” Lorenzo Pregliasco, professor of political science at the University of Bologna, told RT. The image of Lega as an anti-establishment party is artificially crafted, he argued, claiming that it is in fact “a government party.”

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