Elections, Salvini: "Russia will not affect". Di Maio: "Accomplice of interference"

"The candidacies of the League in the Senate uninominal are closed: women are 56%. The others promise and argue, the League makes the facts": the secretary of the League Matteo Salvini writes on Twitter, who is located in the headquarters of the party in via Bellerio in Milan.

"After having donated the blood, I go to the office and today we close the lists. And I think they will be good lists. I will be proudly a candidate in my Milan. They ask me to apply also in other Regions, from Calabria, to Puglia, to Sicily, to Calabria, to Lazio ": Salvini said in the morning.

"I think about the team and the team is the center-right which is winning and compact, while the left is divided into four. And then I always have the ambition, the hope and the conviction that the League can be the driving force of this team. center right ".

"How right that he should be - he added - whoever takes one more vote will have the honor of taking this country by the hand".

But "let the Italians choose - concluded Salvini - not some journalist or some pollster.

"We are preparing a concrete and definitive

proposal , a tax cut. Today a 15% tax already helps 2 million workers with VAT numbers, the Lega's plan is to extend this tax to 15% to other workers self-employed and in the coming months also to employees, pensioners and families.

", explained Salvini during a press point in Milan.

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and I haven't had contact with Russian politicians for years. I deal with Italy. I hope the left doesn't spend 30 days talking about something else, about Martians or insults," Salvini said.

"To the government - he added - well before me, someone who has done business and commercial agreements with Russia is there and I am thinking precisely of the left".

Instead, Salvini concluded, pressured by reporters on relations with Moscow, "I have never entered into economic agreements of any kind with anyone".

"Russia will not have any influence on the vote of Italians. They will choose housewives, students and pensioners with their own heads. If there is really someone on the left who thinks that foreign countries can influence the vote of Italians, they disrespect Italians": Lega leader Matteo Salvini said in Milan, responding to reporters who asked for an account of the statements of the vice president of the Security Council of the Russian federation Dmitri Medvedev who had invited Europeans to "punish" their governments in the elections.

"Let the Italians vote", concluded Salvini.

Di Maio replied immediately

: "Was it Putin who told you that there will be no Russian influence on our elections? Your contacts with Russia are evident. I think of when you wanted to get the Russian embassy to pay for your trip to Moscow in rubles, or to when your men had contacts with Russian representatives, as read in recent days in an investigation by La Stampa, discussing the possible resignation of the League's ministers.The risk is there and the continuous interference in Italian politics by Russian representatives confirms this. Your shyness in distancing yourself from the serious threats of Russian exponents makes you

".

So Di Maio to Salvini