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Matteo Salvini
Federal Secretary of Lega Nord
Assumed office
15 December 2013
Preceded byRoberto Maroni
Member of the European Parliament
Assumed office
13 July 2009
ConstituencyNorth-West Italy
Personal details
Born (1973-03-09) 9 March 1973 (age 51)
Milan, Italy
Political partyLega Nord
Other political
affiliations
Us with Salvini (2014–present)
OccupationPolitician
Professionjournalist
Websitewww.matteosalvini.eu

Matteo Salvini (Italian pronunciation: [matˈtɛo salˈvini]; born 9 March 1973, Milan) is an italian politician and member of the European Parliament who has been the leader of the Lega Nord political party since December 2013 and of Us with Salvini since December 2014.

Career

Early career

Salvini has been a member of Movimento Giovani Padani, Lega Nord's youth movement and deputy secretary of Lega Lombarda, along with Marco Reguzzoni. At the 1997 Padanian elections he was a candidate of the list Comunisti Padani (Padanian Communists). According to one of his interviews he attended university for several years but he dropped out before getting his degree.

From 1993 to 2012 he has been a member of the Milan City Council.[citation needed]

European Parliament

He was elected a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the North-West region in 2004 and participated in the European Parliament as a part of the Non-Inscrits. He switched as a member of the Europe of Freedom and Democracy Group in 2009 before switching back to the Non-Inscrits in 2014.[1]

He sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education, and was a substitute for the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and a member of the Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee. He stood down from the European Parliament in November 2006.

After he was re-elected in 2009 as an MEP, he sat on the Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection and is a member of the Delegation for Relations with India, and the Delegation for Relations with the Korean Peninsula. He is a Substitute on the Committee on International Trade and the Delegation for Relations with South Africa.[1]

Head of Lega Nord

Since he took over leadership of the Lega Nord party in December 2013, he has "all but ditched Umberto Bossi's (never very convincing) Northern separatism" and shifted its focus to causes aligned with the European nationalism, represented by Marine Le Pen’s National Front of France such as being against illegal immigration and the euro.[2][3]

On 28 February 2015, Salvini led a rally in Rome protesting against illegal immigration.[4]

A recent Ipsos poll showed that his approval rating had increased by 5 percentage points, from 28% to 33%, "cementing his position as a rising political force in Italy".[5]

A SWG poll dated 5 March 2015 rates Salvini's party at 13.6%.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Your MEPs: Matteo SALVINI". Europa. European Parliament. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
  2. ^ Squires, Nick (16 December 2013). "Independence for northern Italy and an end to euro, says Northern League leader". The Telegraph.
  3. ^ "Move over, Silvio". The Economist. 25 November 2014.
  4. ^ Associated Press, "Italy's anti-immigrant movement brings protest rally to Rome", http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2973389/Italys-anti-immigrant-movement-brings-protest-rally-Rome.html
  5. ^ Rachel Sanderson; James Politi (December 2, 2014). "Italy's new political star: Northern League leader Matteo Salvini". Financial Times.
  6. ^ Termometro Politico, "Sondaggio SWG 6 marzo: avanzano Lega Nord e M5S, cala Forza Italia", http://www.termometropolitico.it/1163878_sondaggio-swg-6-marzo-avanzano-lega-nord-e-m5s-cala-forza-italia.html

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