Northern League leader Matteo Salvini drew thousands of supporters to a rally in Milan on Saturday as campaigning intensified ahead of a March 4 election expected to give most seats to a right-wing coalition of which his party is a member, APA reports quoting reuters.
Salvini, 44, who has pulled the League away from its original aim to secure independence for the wealthy north towards euro-scepticism and opposing immigration, is counting on drawing up to 50,000 supporters to the rally in Italy’s financial capital.
After arriving in a crowded Duomo square where supporters had been chanting “come March 4 we’ll vote Lega,” Salvini climbed over two barriers and forced his way though cameras to shake hands with people.
Big rallies have so far been noticeably absent from campaigning to form Italy’s 65th government in little more than 70 years, with a new electoral law leaving the outcome highly uncertain.
“It’s time to get off the Internet,” Salvini had written on Twitter, a platform where much of the campaigning has been carried out, ahead of the event.
Several demonstrations are taking place in Milan and other cities on Saturday.
Not far from the central Piazza Duomo police clashed with left-wing protesters who were trying to reach a cordoned-off rally of neo-Fascist group CasaPound.
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