Us with Salvini

Us with Salvini
Noi con Salvini
President Matteo Salvini
Deputy President Raffaele Volpi
Secretary Angelo Attaguile
Founded 19 December 2014
Headquarters Via Federico Cesi 44, Rome
Ideology Populism
Federalism
Regionalism
Protectionism
Euroscepticism
Anti-immigration
Political position Far-right
European affiliation none
European Parliament group no MEPs
Northern counterpart Lega Nord
Colours      Blue
Chamber of Deputies
5 / 630
Senate
0 / 315
European Parliament
0 / 73
Website
noiconsalvini.org

Us with Salvini (Italian: Noi con Salvini, NcS), is a populist political party in Italy,[1][2] whose main campaign themes are Euroscepticism and a strong stance against illegal immigration.[3] The party, founded by Matteo Salvini on 19 December 2014, is considered the sister party of Lega Nord (LN) for Lazio, southern Italy and Sardinia.[1][4]

Salvini is the party's president, Raffaele Volpi (a senator of Lega Nord) 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.[3][5]

History

Soon after the European Parliament election held in May 2014, Matteo Salvini, federal secretary of Lega Nord (LN), proposed the creation of a sister party for the regions of Italy where the LN is not active.[6]

On 19 December Salvini presented the new party during a press conference in Rome.[7]

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 (PdL) of Moroccan origin and leading anti-Islamist, to the Italian nationalist and neo-fascist CasaPound.[8] On 8 February 2015 Salvini and Attaguile, a deputy, launched the Sicilian section of the party in Palermo: in the event, he apologised for Lega Nord's past rhetoric towards the South.[9]

On 27 February the LN and NcS organised a joint rally in Rome. Along with Salvini and Luca Zaia, the speakers at the rally 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),[10] the aforementioned Souad Sbai, the leader of New Italy Party and flat tax supporter Armando Siri, the president of Brothers of Italy (FdI) Giorgia Meloni and the deputy leader of CasaPound Simone Di Stefano, who spoke on behalf of the newly organised Sovereignty association.[11]

In November Salvini organised a rally in Bologna and invited Silvio Berlusconi, leader of Forza Italia (FI) to speak, along with Meloni.[12][13] CasaPound/Sovereignty, which was not invited, disliked Salvini's "moderate" turn and deserted the rally.[14][15] Both Salvini[16] and CasaPound leaders[17] confirmed that the two parties would not cooperate anymore due to different views.

Four deputies, other than Attaguile, have since joined the party: Barbara Saltamartini (ex-AN/PdL/NCD),[18] Guglielmo Picchi (ex-FI/PdL/FI),[19] Giuseppina Castiello (ex-AN/PdL/FI),[20] and Alessandro Pagano (ex-FI/PdL/NCD).[21][22]

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.[23][24]

In the 2016 local elections the LN did well in the Centre-North, especially in its stronghold Veneto, while the NcS obtained negligible results,[25] including 2.7% in Rome.[26]

Ideology

NcS embraces a very critical view of the European Union (EU), especially of the Euro, which Matteo Salvini once described a "crime against mankind".[27] The party is also quite opposed to illegal immigration, which has emerged in 2012 as a serious problem for Italy, especially for the South.[28][29]

On economic issues, NcS supports flat tax, tax cuts, fiscal federalism, protectionism[30] and, to some extent, agrarianism. On social issues, NcS opposes same-sex marriage and the EU's management of immigration, while it supports family values and the legalisation of brothels.[31] In foreign policy NcS opposes the international embargo against Russia of 2014[32][33] and supported an economic opening to Eastern Europe and to countries of the Far East such as North Korea.[34][35]

NcS's political positions are near to the French National Front and of the Dutch Party for Freedom.[36][37]

Leadership

Electoral results

Regional Councils

Region Latest election # of
overall votes		 % of
overall vote		 # of
overall seats won
Apulia 2015 38,661 (#11) 2.3
0 / 51

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Northern League presents 'Us with Salvini' symbol for South". Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata. 19 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "La Lega sbarca al Sud, Salvini presenta il simbolo". Repubblica.it. 2014-12-19. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  3. 1 2 Paesi Etnei Oggi. "Noi con Salvini, Volpi: "puntiamo a rinnovare la classe dirigente siciliana" - Politica - 30/01/2015 - Paesi Etnei Oggi". Paesietneioggi.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  4. ↑ ""Noi con Salvini", il segretario della Lega presenta la lista per il centro-sud". Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  5. ↑ "Sicilia: presentato a Palermo movimento "Noi con Salvini" - Sicilia". ANSA.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  6. ↑ "'Lega dei Popoli e delle Identità'. Ecco il Carroccio del Centro-Sud". Affaritaliani.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  7. ↑ "Noi con Salvini: la Lega Nord sbarca al Sud, programma e obiettivi in 5 punti". Forexinfo.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  8. ↑ Andrea Carugati (2014-12-18). "Salvini lancia Lega del Sud: da Casa Pound a ex Msi, da sindacalisti all'associazionismo: la galassia del nuovo Carroccio". Huffingtonpost.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  9. ↑ "Salvini tra contestazione e applausi a Palermo: "Chiedo scusa ai meridionali se li ho offesi" - La Stampa". Lastampa.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  10. ↑ "Claudio Ardizio, rappresentante degli esodati e membro dell'Altra Europa con Tsipras, sul palco della Lega: è polemica (FOTO)". Huffingtonpost.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  11. ↑ "Renzi a casa! - Manifestazione indetta dal segretario della Lega Nord Matteo Salvini (28.02.2015)". Radioradicale.it (in Italian). 2015-02-28. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  12. ↑ "A Bologna il raduno del centrodestra, Berlusconi: "Con Matteo, Giorgia e Silvio vinceremo"". Repubblica.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  13. ↑ "Berlusconi, Salvini e Meloni: "Uniti vinceremo le elezioni con il 40%" FOTO VIDEO - Politica - iltempo". Iltempo.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  14. ↑ "Di Stefano (CasaPound): "Ritorno al passato, a Bologna la stessa foto del 1994. Se è così è finita" - IntelligoNews - quotidiano indipendente di informazione". Intelligonews.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  15. ↑ "Casapound sull'8 novembre spiega: "Con la Lega c'è solo lo strappo di Bologna. Il nostro appello a Salvini" - IntelligoNews - quotidiano indipendente di informazione". Intelligonews.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  16. ↑ "Salvini: "con Casapound nulla a che fare! basta vedere le nostre liste"" [Salvini: «We have nothing to do with CasaPound! Let's look at our candidates»] (in Italian). 2016-05-04. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
  17. ↑ "Casapound: la destra siamo noi. Salvini? E' diventato un moderato" [Casapound: we are the Right. Salvini has become a moderate] (in Italian). 2016-05-09. Retrieved 2016-05-10.
  18. ↑ "L'abbraccio di Saltamartini a Lega dei Popoli - giornaleditalia". Ilgiornaleditalia.org. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  19. ↑ "Camera, Guglielmo Picchi lascia Forza Italia e va con la Lega". Affaritaliani.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  20. ↑ http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2016/05/20/in-due-lasciano-gruppo-fi-alla-camera_0ecc9186-23dd-475d-acda-4b39f1fd6252.html
  21. ↑ http://www.affaritaliani.it/politica/alessandro-pagano-lascia-ap-ncd-ed-entra-nella-lega-il-video-445942.html
  22. ↑ http://livesicilia.it/2016/10/23/no-al-referendum-musumeci-le-urne-bocceranno-renzi_794217/
  23. ↑ http://roma.fanpage.it/comunali-roma-2016-matteo-salvini-la-nostra-capolista-sara-irene-pivetti/
  24. ↑ http://formiche.net/2016/04/08/lega-che-succede-roma-fra-salvini-e-la-lista-noi-per-salvini/
  25. ↑ http://www.lastampa.it/2016/06/09/italia/speciali/elezioni/2016/amministrative/salvini-fa-flop-a-nord-e-sud-se-voleva-essere-leader-del-centrodestra-ora-dovr-rivedere-i-piani-T5SbfHn6doxmuaG2kwL98H/pagina.html
  26. ↑ http://www.repubblica.it/static/speciale/2016/elezioni/comunali/roma.html?refresh_cens
  27. ↑ "Lega, Salvini contro euro: 'Crimine contro l'umanità' - Politica". ANSA.it. 2013-12-15. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  28. ↑ ""Lasciate gli immigrati al largo". E scoppia la bufera su Salvini". IlGiornale.it (in Italian). 2015-02-15. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  29. ↑ "Il Cittadino di Lodi". Ilcittadino.it. 2015-02-25. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  30. ↑ "I 10 punti del programma ECONOMICO della Lega nero su bianco.". Libero Quotidiano. February 11, 2015.
  31. ↑ Carta dei Valori. Noi con Salvini. 2015.
  32. ↑ "Russia, Salvini: Ci batteremo per rimuovere sanzioni a Mosca". il Velino. June 9, 2015.
  33. ↑ Anna Lesnevskaya (October 15, 2014). "Lega, Salvini in Russia alla Duma: "No alle sanzioni Ue". E la Padania lo celebra". il Fatto Quotidiano.
  34. ↑ Luisa De Montis (September 3, 2014). "Salvini elogia la Corea del Nord". il Giornale.
  35. ↑ Massimo Rebotti (September 3, 2014). "Salvini: la Corea del Nord? C'è uno splendido senso di comunità". Corriere della Sera.
  36. ↑ "Europa, Marine Le Pen preferisce Salvini e la Lega Nord a Beppe Grillo". Il Sole 24 ORE. Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  37. ↑ "askanews". Tmnews.it. Retrieved 2016-04-03.

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