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Us with Salvini (, NcS) was a
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political party in Italy. The party, founded by
Matteo Salvini Matteo Salvini (; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been List of F ...
on 19 December 2014, was the sister party of
Lega Nord Lega Nord (LN; ), whose complete name is (), is a right-wing politics, right-wing, federalism, federalist, populism, populist and conservatism, conservative list of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy. In the run-up to the 201 ...
(LN) for
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,
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, and
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(where the LN regional section was never recognised as one of its "national" sections, and where the party joined forces with the
Sardinian Action Party The Sardinian Action Party (, , PSd'Az or PSdA) is a Sardinian nationalism, Sardinian nationalist, Regionalism (politics), regionalist and Separatism, separatist list of political parties in Sardinia, political party in Sardinia founded by Sardin ...
, PSd'Az). Salvini was the party's president, Raffaele Volpi (a senator of LN) vice-president, while Angelo Attaguile, formerly a member of the Party of Sicilians, who was the first deputy to join the party, secretary and leader in
Sicily Sicily (Italian language, Italian and ), officially the Sicilian Region (), is an island in the central Mediterranean Sea, south of the Italian Peninsula in continental Europe and is one of the 20 regions of Italy, regions of Italy. With 4. ...
. In the 2018 general election, NcS ran under the "Lega" umbrella alongside Lega Nord, the aforementioned PSd'Az and minor parties. More than 20 deputies and senators were elected outside the Centre-North. As of early 2019, the party seems no longer active. Since 2018, membership recruitment by the LN in the central and
southern Italy Southern Italy (, , or , ; ; ), also known as () or (; ; ; ), is a macroregion of Italy consisting of its southern Regions of Italy, regions. The term "" today mostly refers to the regions that are associated with the people, lands or cultu ...
has been made under the name of "
Lega per Salvini Premier Lega (), whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier (, LSP or LpSP), is a right-wing populist political party in Italy, led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord (, LN). The LSP was established in December 20 ...
" (LSP), which practically supplanted NcS. Before NcS, there were previous attempts to establish a LN-sponsored party in the South: "Lega Italia Federale", Lega Sud Ausonia (which is still active and espouses an anti-northern line), and the Federalist Alliance.


History

Soon after the
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, held in May, Matteo Salvini, federal secretary of Lega Nord (LN), proposed the creation of a sister party for the
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where the LN was not active. On 19 December 2014 Salvini launched the new party during a press conference in
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. Since its early months of activity, NcS formed ties with several local activists and organisations, stretching from Souad Sbai, a former deputy of
The People of Freedom The People of Freedom (, PdL) was a centre-right political party in Italy. The PdL launched by Silvio Berlusconi as an electoral list, including and National Alliance, on 27 February for the 2008 Italian general election. The list was later t ...
(PdL) of Moroccan origin and leading anti- Islamist, to the Italian nationalist and neo-fascist organisation CasaPound. On 8 February 2015 Salvini and Attaguile, a deputy, launched the Sicilian section of the party in
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: in the event, he apologised for Lega Nord's past rhetoric towards the South. On 27 February 2015 the LN and NcS organised a joint rally in Rome. Along with Salvini and Luca Zaia, speakers featured the representatives of some social/professional associations and trade unions (including Claudio Ardizio, a local leader of The Other Europe, a left-wing electoral coalition), the aforementioned Souad Sbai, the leader of New Italy Party and
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supporter Armando Siri, the president of
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(FdI)
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and the deputy leader of CasaPound Simone Di Stefano, who spoke on behalf of the newly organised
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association. In November another rally took place in Bologna, that time with the participation of
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(FI) leader
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, along with Meloni. CasaPound/Sovereignty, which was not invited, disliked Salvini's "moderate" turn and deserted the rally. Both Salvini and CasaPound leaders confirmed that the two parties would no longer cooperate due to diverging views. Seven deputies, including Attaguile, since joined the party: Barbara Saltamartini (ex- AN/ PdL/ NCD), Giuseppina Castiello (ex-AN/PdL/FI) Alessandro Pagano (ex-FI/PdL/NCD), Carmelo Lo Monte (ex- DC/ PPI/ DE/ UdC/
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/ CD/
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), Trifone Altieri (ex- FI/PdL/FI/ CR/ DI), and Roberto Marti (ex-FI/PdL/FI/CR/DI). In April 2016 it was announced that Irene Pivetti, a former President of the Chamber of Deputies who had left the LN in 1996 and was then president of the Italy–China Development Foundation, would head the party's slate in the upcoming municipal election in Rome. In the 2016 local elections the LN did well in the Centre-North, especially in its stronghold
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, while the NcS obtained negligible results, including 2.7% in Rome. In the 2017 local elections the NcS was present only in a few municipalities, obtaining some convincing results only in the Centre-South (closer to the areas of LN's influence), including 6.8% in
L'Aquila L'Aquila ( ; ; ) is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy. It is the capital city of the Province of L'Aquila and the Abruzzo region in Italy. , it has a population of 69,902. Laid out within medieval walls on a hill in the wide valley of the A ...
(
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), 8.5% in Ladispoli, 6.6% in Guidonia Montecelio, 6.6% in Fonte Nuova and 3.0% in
Cerveteri Cerveteri () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, in the Italian region of Lazio. Known by the ancient Romans as Caere, and previously by the Etruscans as Caisra or Cisra, and as Agylla (or ) by the Greeks, ...
(
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), 3.3% in Mondragone (northern
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), and occasionally 4.9% in Santeramo in Colle (
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). In the 2018 general election the LN presented its list throughout Italy under the "Lega" banner (without the word "Nord"), obtaining its best results in Abruzzo (13.8%), Lazio (13.0%),
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(10.8%) – where the list featured also candidates of the
Sardinian Action Party The Sardinian Action Party (, , PSd'Az or PSdA) is a Sardinian nationalism, Sardinian nationalist, Regionalism (politics), regionalist and Separatism, separatist list of political parties in Sardinia, political party in Sardinia founded by Sardin ...
– and
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(8.7%). 17 deputies and 11 senators were elected in the Centre-South (among which the economist Alberto Bagnai, the well-known lawyer Giulia Bongiorno and the trade unionist Claudio Durigon), including one deputy and one senator of the LN ( Filippo Maturi of Lega Nord Alto Adige – Südtirol in Lazio and Salvini in
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), one deputy and one senator of the
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( Cinzia Bonfrisco and Giuseppe Basini, both northerners), one senator of the
National Movement for Sovereignty The National Movement for Sovereignty (, MNS) was a National conservatism, national-conservative List of political parties in Italy, political party in Italy, founded on 18 February 2017, with the merger of National Action (Italy), National Action ...
( Claudio Barbaro) and one of the PSd'Az ( Christian Solinas). The joint parliamentary groups were named "League–Salvini Premier" in the Chamber and "League–Salvini Premier–Sardinian Action Party" in the Senate. The 2018 membership recruitment was made under the name of "
Lega per Salvini Premier Lega (), whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier (, LSP or LpSP), is a right-wing populist political party in Italy, led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord (, LN). The LSP was established in December 20 ...
" (LSP), practically supplanting NcS. The LSP, whose statute had been published in the ''
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'' in December 2017 and had been described as a "parallel party", might eventually replace both the LN and NcS, which would be merged into one. Salvini might even launch a brand-new party and absorb most of the
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parties into it. According to the website of the Identity and Democracy Party, which lists both the LN (as "Lega") and the LSP as members, the latter is "a confederal political movement constituted in the form of an unrecognized association whose purpose is the peaceful transformation of the Italian state into a modern federal state through democratic and electoral methods".


Ideology

The party's main campaign themes were
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and a strong stance against
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. NcS embraced a very critical view of the
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(EU), especially of the
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, which Matteo Salvini once described a "crime against mankind". The party was also quite opposed to
illegal immigration Illegal immigration is the migration of people into a country in violation of that country's immigration laws, or the continuous residence in a country without the legal right to do so. Illegal immigration tends to be financially upward, wi ...
, which has emerged in 2012 as a serious problem for Italy, especially for the
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. On economic issues, NcS supported
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,
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s,
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,
protectionism Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import quotas, and a variety of other government regulations ...
and, to some extent,
agrarianism Agrarianism is a social philosophy, social and political philosophy that advocates for rural development, a Rural area, rural agricultural lifestyle, family farming, widespread property ownership, and political decentralization. Those who adhere ...
. On social issues, NcS opposed
same-sex marriage Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal Legal sex and gender, sex. marriage between same-sex couples is legally performed and recognized in 38 countries, with a total population of 1.5 ...
and the EU's management of
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, while it supported
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and the legalisation of
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s. In foreign policy NcS opposed the international sanctions against Russia of 2014, and supported an economic opening to
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and to countries of the
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such as
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. NcS's political positions were near to those of the French National Front and of the Dutch
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.


Leadership

*President:
Matteo Salvini Matteo Salvini (; born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician who has been serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been List of F ...
(2014–2018) **Vice President: Raffaele Volpi (2015–2018) *Secretary: Angelo Attaguile (2015–2018)


Electoral results


Regional Councils


References


External links


Official website
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