2023-09-17 22:04:16
Against Europe and “migrant overwhelm”, for “people” and “identity”: Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen united during a major meeting on Sunday in Italy with a view to the 2024 European elections .
“This year commits us to the same fight, our freedoms, our peoples, our homelands,” launched Ms. Le Pen, president of the National Rally (RN) group in the National Assembly, from Pontida, in northern Italy. , location of the traditional party of Matteo Salvini’s Anti-Migrant League.
“We no longer want to have policies imposed on us that we have not chosen,” she continued, citing in particular “the crazy ban on thermal engines”, another of Mr. Salvini’s hobbyhorses.
“We defend our traditions, our gastronomy, our identities, our landscapes (…) we defend our people in the face of migratory overwhelm,” she added, referring to the thousands of migrants who arrived this week on the Italian island. from Lampedusa.
Ms. Le Pen also spoke to the thousands of League sympathizers regarding her “Declaration of the Rights of Nations and Peoples” in order to protect herself from “excesses of power of supranational organizations or commercial structures” which she had presented the day before. In France.
The political alliance between Ms. Le Pen and Matteo Salvini has seemed solid for around ten years and also testifies to the solidity of their personal relationship.
“Triple happiness (…) the pleasure of finding Matteo (…) viva il Capitano”, Mr. Salvini’s nickname in Italian.
“Block an invasion”
The latter multiplies the outings once morest French President Emmanuel Macron, perceived as the standard bearer of the “liberals” once morest the European “sovereignists”.
“If we have to choose in Europe between Macron and Marine Le Pen, I have no doubt, Marine Le Pen forever,” said Giorgia Meloni’s deputy prime minister in his right-wing and far-right government.
Continuing his anti-migrant register, he assured that Italy will do “everything that is democratically permitted” and will use “any necessary means” to “block an invasion”.
If at the national political level, Marine Le Pen is in opposition while Matteo Salvini belongs to the right-wing and far-right government coalition led by Giorgia Meloni, head of Fratelli d’Italia (FDI), Mrs. Le Pen and the RN prances in the opinion polls when the League and Mr. Salvini peak at 8-9%, far behind FDI.
In other words, one seems to need the other more, especially since the RN achieved very high scores in the last two Europeans.
“Alliance durable”
The alliance between the two parties is “one of the most lasting”, notes the philosopher and journalist Anna Bonalume, specialist in Matteo Salvini. “The balances have changed over the years but their relationship has never changed.”
The objective of Marine Le Pen and Matteo Salvini is to achieve success in the European elections of June 9 for which Matteo Salvini tried to replicate the national alliance at the European level. An offer sharply rejected by its government allies (FDI and Forza Italia, FI).
Antonio Tajani, head of diplomacy and FI (member party European People’s Party, EPP), firmly ruled out a rapprochement with the French far right and the German AFD. “Our values are alternative” and Ms. Le Pen “will never be our ally,” he declared.
“Ms. Le Pen has the freedom to go where she wants and Matteo Salvini has the freedom to invite whoever he wants” to Pontida, quipped Guido Crosetto, Minister of Defense and close to Ms. Meloni with whom he co-founded FDI.
This article was automatically published. Sources: ats / afp
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