Italy’s parties are positioning themselves for the European elections, which may be the last chance for the Lega leader to halt the decline of his party. Accordingly, he lashes out wildly.
The hall in the Via Tiburtina studios in Rome was full with 1,500 participants, so everything was fine on Saturday for Matteo Salvini, the head of the right-wing populist Lega. Now it can’t be difficult for a long-time party leader who is also a deputy prime minister to mobilize enough people to fill a hall. It was more exciting to see which celebrities came to the meeting of the European party family Identity and Democracy (ID), to which Salvini and his league belongs – and which ones did not.