Northern League leader Matteo Salvini said Italy is having a “great day” this Monday as the Italians will have “five years of stability” following the right’s victory in Sunday’s transalpine elections.
“Today is a Monday when a government has been elected by the citizens, with a clear majority of the centre-right, and which will allow five years without change to focus on what needs to be done,” Salvini said, commenting on the 44 percent obtained by the coalition of the League, the Brothers of Italy (FdI) and Força Italia (FI).
Salvini, however, expressed himself as “dissatisfied” with the League’s result, below 09%, in the elections won by the FdI, led by far-right Giorgia Meloni.
With that percentage in the vote, the coalition will rule with an absolute majority in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.
Salvini said he congratulated Meloni this morning.
“Now we will work together,” he underlined, adding that the coalition’s three parties will have a first meeting today to analyze the format of Italy’s future executive.
When analyzing the results, Salvini believed that the Italians “rewarded the opposition” and that the FdI were “excellent” in opposing Mario Draghi’s government, noting that the League “paid” at 8.9% for a leadership position in the Five Star Movement (M5S) and with the Democratic Party (PD).
However, Salvini assured that he would “do everything the same again” given the situation Italy found itself after the COVID-19 pandemic.
“It’s a great day for Italy because it will be stable for five years,” he insisted.
“We are in a government in which we will be protagonists. Last week we were in a government that found us boring, as extras. The Italians chose consistency,” he said.
The League did not rise above 10%, a level designated in the days leading up to the vote as decisive for the future of the party and Salvini.
In the end, it won 8.9% of the vote, far from the 12% the polls had predicted and a significant drop compared to the 34% of the vote won in the 2019 European elections and 28% in the general election. of 2018.
According to the partial results, the right-wing and far-right coalition won about 44% of the vote in the legislature.
The center-left bloc, led by Enrico Letta’s Democratic Party, is expected to receive 26% of the vote.
Source: DN
