Lega is the re-styled party lead from 2017 by Matteo Salvini, after a big trial that condemned former ‘Lega Nord’ to pay 49million euros defrauded from the Italian Republic. Apart from the legal scandal, the political shift concerns a different perspective, with the new Salvini’s group oriented to a nationalist approach, instead of a previous federalist and almost secessionist perspective.
The far-right typical imprinting stams from the political background of the fascist triad of “God, Homeland and Family”, conveyed in common campaigns against migrants and minorities, tough opposition to NGOs and civil rights mainly addressed to LGBTQIA+, strong Euro-scepticism, anti-abortion proposals and standing propaganda referred to personal security and self-defence.
Besides that, there have been a wide enrollment of neofascist prominent figures in several local and political elections, as happened even for european elections in 2015, when Lega established a sort of electoral trust with Casapound Italy (CPI), called ‘Sovereignty’.
One of Lega’s main flag claims concerns citizens’ “right” of self defense, which became a law under the green-yellow government with Salvini as Interior Minister in 2018.