Posted on 11/12/2016 5:42:50 PM PST by Mariner
Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League, said on Saturday he would run for prime minister at the next election as the country nears a referendum that could unseat the government.
Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has staked the future of his centre-left government on a constitutional reform that will be put to a referendum vote on Dec. 4.
Salvini, 43, led a rally against the reform on Saturday in Florence, traditionally a centre-left city where Renzi was mayor before becoming prime minister.
Speaking to an estimated 10,000 people in the central Santa Croce square, Salvini announced his candidacy by hailing Donald Trump's election as U.S. president and Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
"If Brexit and Trump's victory teach us something it is that it's not the time to be afraid," he said.
"Today I put myself on the line. I am not afraid of anything or anyone ... We set off today ... to go there and win," he added, advocating measures to protect domestic goods and against illegal immigrants.
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Can anyone care?
“If Brexit and Trump’s victory teach us something it is that it’s not the time to be afraid,” he said.
Music to my ears.
I care about the fate of Europe.
Deeply.
Start by stopping ferrying of islam scum to Italy. Follow up by getting the islamo apologists from the Vatican to GTFO.
Out of a party whose leader declared it “libertarian but also socialist”?
I don’t. I care about this country where I live.
“I care about the fate of Europe. Deeply.”
I’m with you.
Salvini’s Lega Nord has for years wanted autonomy for industrial northern Italy so that it won’t have to support those lazy Sicilians, Napolitani, and Calabrians in the south.
Been to both regions and Salvini is exactly right. I love Naples but it is the land of `domani, domani’ when it comes to getting things done. Northern Italians have almost the efficiency of Germans but are far more pleasant to be around. Their Italian is much easier to understand, too.
Naturally, Lega Nord views with horror the Muslim invasion of the Italian boot, and with good reason. IMO the election of Donald Trump is going to stiffen the spines of western Europeans about dealing with their Muslim problem.
Me, too.
I also care - without them, it’s just a matter of time before we get extinguished.
“Can anyone care?”
Read “America Alone” by Mark Steyn - that will get you straightened out as to why we need friends in the world.
This was predicted. Another domino
Io sono con l’Italia
Never tell me what to read.
Too much to drink?
A dude that heads a regional party is an unlikely PM.
I think the Italian right needs to move on from Silvio B though.
A couple days ago, on Facebook, on of my Italian cousins wrote a very nice write up about The Don’s victory. Some anti-Don spaghetti slurping c******ker decided to spew MSM propaganda in response.
I read this and thought to myself: “Unleash Hell.”
I told the guida to STFU and to concern herself with her own country’s pathetic and failed political system. I even called her a Cruzbot. Bitch disappeared.
I win. Again.
In other news, I was inspired and came up with this prayer:
“Oh Lord, You have blessed us with your servant, Donald. Please inspire him to give the true believers the word and unleash death squads on all enemies, foreign and domestic. Amen.”
“Your”
BINGO
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