"The war totally changed judgments and political relations with Russia, which before the invasion was an important interlocutor of all Italian governments"
. The
League
writes this
in a note which underlines that "as already reiterated, the purely political collaboration intentions of 2017 between the League and United Russia are no longer valid after the invasion of Ukraine. More so. Even in previous years there had been no joint initiatives." "The League's line is confirmed by the votes in Parliament: it is regrettable that the Chamber has to waste time on useless and instrumental controversies triggered by the opposition".
Letter from dissidents to Salvini: "the League is isolated, no to Vannacci"
A letter written by former parliamentarians, former regional councilors and Northern League mayors, mostly from Lombardy, and addressed to the secretary Matteo Salvini to ask the leader "why we have stopped talking with autonomist and federalist forces" to make agreements "with those who do not have our natural revulsion towards fascis and swastikas". But also to criticize the choice to nominate "characters with a strong nationalist mark, totally foreign to our movement" such as
General Roberto Vannacci
as candidates for the European elections .
The letter was signed by
21 Northern League representatives
, including the former secretary of the Lombard League Paolo Grimoldi, the former parliamentarians Cristian Invernizzi, Jari Colla, Germano Racchella, the former regional councilor, parliamentarian and secretary of Bergamo Daniele Belotti and the mayors of Rovato Tiziano Belotti, Renato Pasinetti from Travagliato, Lorenzo Olivari from Quinzano d'Oglio, Magda Beretta from Senago and the former mayor of Monza Marco Mariani together with former regional councilors such as Andrea Monti and other former provincial secretaries of the League. "In these five years - we read in the letter - despite the historic electoral success achieved, the League has been relegated to a role of residual importance both in the parliamentary assembly and in the other European institutions".
A "political isolation" which "has not allowed us to have a concrete impact on the search for solutions to problems of interest to the movement - continues the letter -. It is therefore inevitable to ask ourselves where the traditional pragmatism which has always led us to search for useful positions has gone to achieve the objectives". We also ask you where it ended, dear secretary - continues the letter - the traditional and correct distance that we have always maintained from all opposing extremisms", with the choice "in some respects also acceptable, not to join one of the great European political families " which " in any case cannot lead the League to share a path with parties that have nothing to do with our cultural and political history". The "dissidents" of the League hope "to be listened to".
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