Mateo Salvini affirms that he is prepared to lead Italy ahead of the September elections

Aug. 4 () –

The leader of the far-right Liga party, Matteo Salvini, has stated this Thursday that he is prepared to lead Italy if his party achieves better results in the elections scheduled for September 25.

“I think that the center-right will have a good majority, both in the House and in the Senate, and in the center-right the League will have the greatest success,” the Italian far-right said on Thursday, as reported by DPA.

In this sense, he has indicated that he will travel to Italy to make proposals, without responding “to the insults” of Matteo Renzi, of Italia Viva, or the Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi di Maio. “The League’s proposals are worth more than others, because we have implemented most of them,” he added.

On the other hand, during a visit to Lampedusa, the leader of the far-right party stressed that, during his time as Minister of the Interior, “there were fewer deaths, fewer landings, fewer crimes and fewer problems.” “Lampedusa is the gateway to Europe and cannot be the continent’s refugee camp,” he said, as reported by Adnkronos.

Thus, Salvini has declared to journalists that the Italian borders “are a sieve” and that Italy is not doing “a good service to humanity”. “I say no to the scenes I saw here, with children and pregnant women who should be somewhere else,” he has sentenced, according to the newspaper ‘Corriere della Sera’.

The polls ahead of the September elections are led by the Brothers of Italy, a conservative formation led by Giorgia Meloni that does not support the concentration government headed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who remains in office on an interim basis pending the holding of elections after the country’s president, Sergio Mattarella, accepted his resignation.

These elections would come at a time of crisis unleashed in the Five Star Movement of Giuseppe Conte, who refused to support a government aid bill because he considered it insufficient, while, at the international level, the situation is weighed down by the war in Ukraine and a possible cut off Russian natural gas.