Lega per Salvini Premier


Lega per Salvini Premier is a populist political party in Italy. The party, founded by Matteo Salvini and other Lega members on December 2017, is the sister party of Lega Nord for central Italy and southern Italy. Lega per Salvini Premier represents the interests of Lega outside of its politically dominated areas in the North and so largely replacing the purpose of Us with Salvini.

Description

Lega per Salvini Premier describes itself as the following; "Lega per Salvini Premier is a confederal political movement constituted in the form of an unrecognized association whose purpose is the peaceful transformation of the Italian state into a modern federal state through democratic and electoral methods. Lega per Salvini Premier promotes and supports the freedom and sovereignty of peoples at European level." However political commentators describe the party as a parallel of Lega that serves to represent Lega voters in Central and Southern Italy.
The logo is a dark blue rectangle featuring the name of the party, the logo resembles that of the promotional material for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign.

History

Lega per Salvini Premier was founded in December 2017 by Lega politicians; Matteo Salvini, Lorenzo Fontana, Giancarlo Giorgetti, Giulio Centemero and Roberto Calderoli to represent Central and Southern Italy. Since 2018, membership recruitment by Lega in the Centre-South has been made under the name of "Lega per Salvini Premier", practically supplanting Us with Salvini. Officials of the League claimed that the creation of LSP was also due to "judicial reasons".
The LSP, whose statute had been published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale in December 2017 and had been described as a "parallel party", might eventually replace both the LN and NcS, which would be merged into one. In the meantime, the parties' joint parliamentary groups have been named "Lega–Salvini Premier" in the Chamber and "Lega–Salvini Premier–Sardinian Action Party" in the Senate. According to news sources, Salvini might even launch a brand-new party and absorb most of the centre-right parties into it.
In 2019 Lega per Salvini Premier was accepted into the European political party, Identity and Democracy Party. Other members of the ID Party include LSP's parallel party, Lega along with National Rally, Vlaams Belang, Freedom Party of Austria and Freedom and Direct Democracy.