Lega (political party)

Rare card · No. 53271

Lega (lit. 'League'), officially named Lega per Salvini Premier (lit. 'League for Salvini Premier', LSP or LpSP), is a right-wing populist political party in Italy, whose founder and leader is Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord. The LSP was established in December 2017 as the sister party of the LN, active in northern Italy, and as the replacement of Us with Salvini (NcS), LN's previous affiliate in central and southern Italy. The new party aimed at offering LN's values and policies to the rest of the country. Some political commentators described the LSP as a parallel party of the LN, with the aim of politically replacing it, also because of its statutory debt of €49 million. Since January 2020, the LN has become mostly inactive and was practically supplanted by the LSP, which is active all around Italy. The LSP came third in the 2018 Italian general election and first in the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy. Like the LN, the LSP is a confederation...

Read on Wikipedia