Italy’s amnesty offering to the country’s estimated 600,000 illegal migrants in order to bolster the agricultural sector has been a major failure, according to data from the Italian Ministry of the Interior. For days, the public waited for the first official Interior Ministry data to be published. As there was no press conference or a statement, for several hours, the eyes were turned to the website... 

A senior member of populist Matteo Salvini’s League has warned the leftist government of potential “chaos” if it pursues plans to grant amnesty to around 700,000 illegal migrants. Riccardo Molinari, League (Lega) leader in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, warned that “the government wants to bring us back to chaos” after Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese stated that the government... 

Three senators from the left-wing populist Five Star Movement (M5S) have left the party to join Salvini’s increasingly popular League party. Senators Ugo Grassi, Fra Francesco Urraro, and Stefano Lucidi have all announced that they would be leaving the Five Start Movement for Matteo Salvini’s League, Il Giornale reports. Grassi’s decision was applauded by populist leader Matteo Salvini, who... 

Last weekend’s electoral successes in Italy and Germany have given ‘populist’ parties just the boost they needed, while the MSM and others struggle to come to terms with new kids on the block. There has been a subtle shift in the way that European election results are reported over the last year or so. Once, the liberal insult of ‘populist’ explained everything. It explained... 

After governing for 50 years, the left has been vanquished in Umbria as the center-right alliance led by right-wing populist Matteo Salvini garnered close to 60 percent of the vote in Sunday’s regional elections. The candidate for governor of the region, Donatella Tesei, who’s backed by Salvini’s League, the national-conservative Brothers of Italy, and Berlusconi’s center-right Forza Italia,... 

According to a new poll, Italy’s former interior minister Matteo Salvini is now the country’s most trusted politician. The leader of the national populist League party received a 40 percent trust rating in the poll, just edging out Italy’s sitting Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who received 39 percent. The poll also revealed that 48 percent of respondents said that they little to no confidence... 

Italy’s most popular politician and former interior minister Matteo Salvini has attacked anti-Italian, pro-globalist Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, saying that although he may have left his post as minister, he has held onto his dignity, According to a report for Italy’s Il Giornale, Salvini – who heads Italy’s most popular party – slammed Conte, saying that he “has changed completely.... 

A newly released poll has revealed that an overwhelming majority of Italians do not approve of the new Democratic Party-Five Star Movement coalition, while a substantial portion of the population prefers the former populist coalition government led by Matteo Salvini. According to an IPSOS poll, 54 percent of Italian citizens who were surveyed reported not liking the newly formed PD-M5S coalition government... 

According to reports, some party members of the Five Star Movement are thinking of ditching the left-wing populist party for Salvini’s National Populist League party. After strong disagreements between Salvini’s League and their coalition partners in the Five Star Movement (M5S), it’s looking more and more likely that Italy will be seeing a new election in the near future. With Salvini’s party... 

Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini has called on the country’s prime minister to recognize the government’s ruling coalition has collapsed, demanding a vote of no confidence and snap elections. Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the National Populist Brothers of Italy party, has said that new elections could bring about a government set on making the “politically incorrect reforms that Italy... 

Leaked reports suggest that Italy’s interior minister Matteo Salvini has requested his fellow League party members to skip their holidays to ready themselves for a coalition crisis and possible snap elections. According to a report by Italy’s daily newspaper Il Giornale, this week, following a conflicting vote between coalition partners the League and Five Star Movement (M5S) on the TAV train... 

Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said he would host a major rally of European nationalist and far-right parties to promote a shared political vision ahead of May’s EU parliamentary elections. Salvini leads the ruling League party and hopes to put together a bloc of like-minded, anti-immigration parties in the European parliament to challenge the traditionally predominant and mainstream... 

Italian’s are happy to share their opinions and a poll published on Saturday shows the deepening divide between support for the right-wing League and its coalition partner the 5Star Movement. The Ipsos poll published the telling results. The League, headed by the internationally popular Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, has jumped to 34.7 per cent of Italians saying they would vote for the League. In...