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The Lega’s transformation from a fringe, regionally-based party to a ‘national’ political force and the largest party in the 2019 EP elections meant that Salvini’s Euroscepticism was constructed on a recontextualisation of the party’s ‘old’ idea of regionalism, based on a form of localist Sovereignism/Populism in the discourse of ...
Apr 28, 2021 · The core belief is almost exactly the same, Italy is a victim of a centralized power enacting unfair policies, and to move forward true citizens must be put first. A Lega Nord poster depicting Italian’s as ‘last in line’. The Italian man is depicted behind a line of caricatures of different minority immigrant groups.
Similarly, Jens Rydgren argues that Lega Nord is among ‘extreme right-wing populist’ parties’. Furthermore, Lega Nord’s position in terms of ideology and rhetoric has demonstrated that party has not been consistent on its claims. On this matter, Agnew divides Lega Nord’s changing ideology and rhetoric into 4 periods.
Nov 1, 2015 · Collection: Oxford Handbooks Online. A populist party that has been at the core of the Italian political system for at least the last 15 years, the Lega Nord (Northern League, LN) was formed in the wake of the political and economic crisis that overwhelmed Italy in the late 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s.
Feb 1, 2011 · The article makes three contributions: first, it encourages a shift away from a focus purely on the Lega's populism towards articulations of its far right ideology; second, it illustrates the ...
Sep 26, 2022 · The leader of a three-party coalition including Lega Nord’s Matteo Salvini and storied former leader Silvio Berlusconi, she will have a clear mandate as Italy’s most right-wing government ...
Dec 18, 2007 · [7] The LDT opposed the intervention in Kosovo in 1999, alongside the LN (see Il Mattino della Domenica, 6 June 1999), and both Gulf wars.But while the Ticinesi explained their opposition by adopting the cynicism of the ‘common man’ who is confronted by the ‘eternal ideals’ of the warrior and does not believe in them, the LN's opposition to the American intervention in Kosovo was ...
