What happened to Matteo Salvini and his party, the League? At the height of his form in 2019, Salvini was deputy prime minister and interior minister in Giuseppe Conte’s first government. His party won the elections to the European Parliament that year, doubling its result obtained in the previous year’s parliamentary elections. Salvini was successfully implementing his closed-port policy as part... 

Western Europe’s preeminent National Populist politician, and now former Interior Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini has denounced Italy’s new Democratic Party-Five Star Movement (M5S) coalition as the ‘least democratic government of all time’. The newly formed establishment-anti-establishment coalition saw Salvini, the leader of the nationalist-populist League Party, ousted from his position... 

The populist Five Star Movement (M5S) and the establishment Democratic Party (PD) – two parties with pretty much nothing in common – have joined hands to take down their arch political opponent – Matteo Salvini. Yesterday, the BBC reported that the two unlikely partners were able to strike a coalition deal to take down right-wing populist Matteo Salvini and his League Party, which has surged... 

Current Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has ended his governing alliance with the Five Star Party (MS5) in the hope of forcing a new election which would likely propel him to the Premiership—but his enemies are working furiously behind closed doors to prevent this from happening, and might succeed. MS5 leader and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte resigned on Tuesday...