Italy’s Salvini Calls Congress Seeking to Tighten Grip on League Party
Polls put the League below 6%, as critics question Salvini’s leadership and a breakaway far-right group gains support.
- League leader Matteo Salvini called an extraordinary party congress for October, a move analysts describe as a strategic effort to consolidate his authority amid internal rivals.
- Recent polls show the League now polls below 6%, while the breakaway National Future party, formed by dissidents in February, currently polls at around 8%.
- Speaking at Pontida on Sunday, Salvini told supporters, "We win when we are united, and the League is, and will be, more united than ever," framing the congress as unity just 18 months after the previous one.
- Meeting in Milan on Monday, the party board established rules for the October gathering, which Luiss University professor Lorenzo Castellani suggests aims to limit critics who currently lack a unifying leader.
- While Italy is due to hold national elections in the second half of 2027, Castellani suggests the extraordinary congress could signal potential early polls as the party prepares for electoral challenges.
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The extraordinary congress of the League shows all the weakness of its leadership in this phase of party crisis
Italy’s Salvini calls congress seeking to tighten grip on League party
By Angelo Amante ROME, Sept 21 - Besieged by internal rivals and with poll ratings declining, Matteo Salvini has unexpectedly called an extraordinary congress of his co-ruling League party, a move analysts see as an attempt to shore up his authority a...
Italy's Salvini calls congress seeking to tighten grip on League party
ROME, Sept 21 - Besieged by internal rivals and with poll ratings declining, Matteo Salvini has unexpectedly called an extraordinary congress of his co-ruling League party, a move analysts see as an attempt to shore up his authority ahead of elections due next year. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The secretary: "I'll ask if I have the confidence of my family, by raising my hand" "L'assise" by October. The scheme: federalists in Italy, sovereignists in Europe. Strong role for Zaia. The article Pontida, the challenge of Salvini: congress and two points to return to win comes from The Truth.
To those who tell him that he will be the new secretary of the Lega Luca Zaia responds, in the margin of the gathering of Pontida, that "there is already a secretary, it seems obvious to me" (ANSA)
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