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The boss of the Northern League, organized on October 19 a rally in Rome in the company of Forza Italia, the right-wing liberal formation of Silvio Berlusconi, and the post-fascist party Frères d'Italie.
With our correspondent in Rome, Anne Le Nir
For his political comeback, in the name of "the pride of Italy", the boss of the League, Matteo Salvini, now in the opposition but which remains the first party of the country with 31.5 to 33% of intentions of vote, had chosen the largest square in the capital, Saint-Jean-de-Latran.
On this busy square floated the tricolor - red-white-green flags - mixed with those of the League, Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia (liberal right) and Giorgia Meloni's post-fascist Frères d'Italie party, which support the "captain" ". According to its organizers, the event gathered in Rome 200,000 people from all regions.
Right-handed trio
White shirt, star smile, Matteo Salvini, proud to recompose the right-wing trio " League - Forza Italia - Brothers of Italy ", dominated the scene. " We will take over this beautiful country to give our children Italy that our fathers have left us ," he said.
Many of the thousands of protesters wore caps and T-shirts with the portrait of their "captain". Like Sonia, 40, a nurse in Milan and her friend Daria, 65: " We ask for more peace and security. I support Matteo Salvini because he is the only one to have coherent ideas: security, closed ports "
The pro-Salvini also call for a lighter taxation and the defense of the traditional family, which Claudio, a young Sicilian lawyer sums up as follows: " Less taxes, more guardianship for families. Italians first . For the moment, the new five-star Democratic Party government coalition is mainly trying to remain united and strong enough to last until 2023, the natural end of the current legislature.
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