Emmanuel Lara Rodriguez and 135 others like this. Europe. Undoubtedly, Salvini now strikes a chord with Italians: a recent survey showed that 72 percent of Italians support his line on immigration. “Populist parties don’t invent issues, they play with them in a specific way. Feb 16. By the time of publication, the post had been liked more than 30,000 times. Il Capitano Will Matteo Salvini wreck the euro? Some from his own party despise him for personalising the party and ditching secessionist talk. He perfected his image of simplicity in decades of political activity. When he became party leader in 2013, the Northern League was a scandal-ridden regionalist movement languishing at three percent of the vote. BuzzFeed News has obtained an explosive audio recording of the Metropol meeting in which a close aide of Europe’s most powerful far-right leader — Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini — and the other five men can be heard negotiating the terms of a deal to covertly channel tens of millions of dollars of Russian oil money to Salvini’s Lega party. It won 17 percent in March this year. ... Facebook Twitter Newsletters Advertise with us Guardian Labs Search jobs Support The Guardian We urge you to turn off your ad blocker for The Telegraph website so that you can continue to access our quality content in the future. Photos from Matteo Salvini's post. “They aren’t policy proposals; it’s propaganda,” says Petrillo. “He hijacked the party,” the League politician told Al Jazeera. pic.twitter.com/pFUOYMbqbH, — ©️as Ⓜ️udde (@CasMudde) March 6, 2018. Matteo Salvini called for 'corrupted' EU to die before cosying up to Brussels for top job MATTEO SALVINI called for the "corrupted' EU to die not long before endorsing top eurocrat Mario Draghi. “In an article for The Conversation, I said it was going to happen in two years,” says Albertazzi. Giovanni Cirisano. In 2003, Salvini became the director of the Northern League’s radio station, Radio Padania, where “he honed his skills of prompt debater and savvy communicator we see today, the ability to tweet, make headlines, create slogans”, a League politician told Al Jazeera, on condition of anonymity. His words reach beyond his role as interior minister, and are so controversial that media and social media pick them up and amplify them – which allows him to seize the spotlight and set the national agenda. in Timeline Photos. Marina Petrillo, senior editor with Open Migration. Early life. View Full Size. "It's true that Turkish hazelnuts are used. On Sunday, as European leaders prepared for a difficult summit in Brussels to discuss the refugee crisis, he took to his Facebook page to share anti-George Soros conspiracy theories, claiming the Jewish billionaire and philanthropist is funding foreign NGOs in collusion with human traffickers. Otherwise, their voters will think they grew soft.”. Matteo Salvini, Italy's deputy prime minister and leader of the League, reacts during a European Parliamentary elections results party at the League headquarters in Milan on May 26. Albertazzi explains that the populist right is rising across the continent while centre-left parties struggle to find answers to immigration and globalisation. “There’s a core of League members who still believe in the ideals of the Northern League, and they don’t forget them. In less than a month, Salvini, who admires Trump and Putin, has blocked refugee rescue boats and demanded a Roma census. On Friday, he said he was no longer a fan of the sticky chocolate spread, which is made by the Italian company Ferrero, after learning that it contained hazelnuts imported from Turkey. The message is in keeping with his rallying cry of “Italians first”, an appeal to nationalist sentiment that has made his League party the most popular in the country with more than 30% of voter support. Ferrero is a leading company in Italy that gives jobs to thousands of people,” said Mr Buffagni, from the Five Star Movement, which governs in coalition with the centre-Left Democratic Party. Join Facebook to connect with Matteo Salvini and others you may know. Go, Donald, GO!#trump2016 #MakeAmericaGreatAgain @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/RfUeDGRGMI, — Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) April 26, 2016. Leader della Lega. Born into the Milanese middle class in 1973, he studied history but never graduated, and became a member of the then incendiary Northern League in 1990, experimenting with megaphones and grass-roots organising. Retrouvez toutes les infos sur Matteo Salvini, homme politique italien d'extrême droite, chef de La Ligue (Lega) et actuel ministre de l'Intérieur. “Salvini’s narrative [of immigration as a threat and the EU as a tyrant] is simplistic, but it’s one people can understand. 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All interviews and book extracts have been translated from Italian. Salvini cultivates the image of the next-door tenant, a nice man far from the corridors of power, who is simply forced to speak up for everyone because the situation requires it. ... driven by dozens of daily tweets and Facebook posts, ... Matteo Renzi, prime minister from 2014 to 2016 and a genuine reformer, is scathing. Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of the Interior. Matteo Salvini’s relentless attacks on migrants make me sick. His anti-Nutella declaration was criticised by Stefano Buffagni, the deputy industry minister, who said: “He’s nuts. In 1993, he became councillor in Milan – the only official post he held before becoming interior minister. But he believes that unless the League’s rise stops – Italian fiscal police are investigating possible mismanagement of public money by the party – Salvini could soon pull the plug on Italy’s current government, call elections, and become PM. Through the years, he underwent drastic transformations. 691 805 personas están hablando de esto. Matteo Salvini. Salvini’s style is simple, direct and bruising – reminiscent of US President Donald Trump, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache. Migrants disembark from rescue boat in Italy despite Salvini ban. Salvini is only saying the things that people wanted to say, but felt too ashamed to do it: 'Kick out the Roma!' You can’t criticise him now that he took the party to 29 percent, but in politics when you lose, you could be over in 10 minutes.”, Un saluto dagli Stati Uniti, amici! “He dignified the worst instincts, legitimising the politically incorrect,” Il Militante reports Basilio Rizzo, a centre-left councillor in Milan, as saying. Matteo Salvini, leader of radical right Lega, likes to communicate his political message through his t-shirts. But a quarter of the hazelnuts come from Italy, which is unable to satisfy the demand for this product". He started as a left-winger within the Northern League, even founding a communist faction of the party – yet today he expresses admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin, Orban, and Trump. Join Facebook to connect with Matteo Salvini and others you may know. 2.3m Followers, 154 Following, 10.8k Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Matteo Salvini (@matteosalviniofficial) Albertazzi, the political scientist, adds: “Like other populist right-wing parties, when they get to government they have to keep the level of tension high on certain issues. Radio also enhanced Salvini’s nose for understanding public opinion and re-inventing himself accordingly. Salvini is only saying the things that people wanted to say, but felt too ashamed to do it: ‘Kick out the Roma!’ and such,” she says. Albertazzi thinks Salvini might struggle to give people answers – he might have promised more than he can do. Just 10 days after he was appointed interior minister, he made international headlines by refusing docking rights to the NGO-run Aquarius rescue boat, which had 629 refugees and migrants on board. Mr Salvini is in full campaign mode, hoping to wrest the northern Emilia-Romagna region from the centre-Left in elections next month. Some supporters call him “The Captain”: a member of the team, but on somewhat higher moral ground. Matteo Salvini was born in Milan in 1973, the son of a business executive and a housewife. It’s consistent. Matteo Salvini is on Facebook. When writer and journalist Roberto Saviano – who is under police protection for his work on organised crime – criticised him, Salvini vowed to review Saviano’s protection. “In his rhetoric, immigration and security – terrorism – are the same thing,” says Daniele Albertazzi, a political scientist at the University of Birmingham. Der 84-Jährige will Matteo Salvini nicht die Show im rechten Lager überlassen – und bringt Ministerpräsident Giuseppe Conte fast an den Rand des Regierungssturzes. Before the March 4 Italian election, he promised to deport 500,000 irregular migrants, called Islam a “threat” that is incompatible with the constitution, and was filmed saying Italy needed “mass cleansing”. — Matteo Salvini (@matteosalvinimi) April 26, 2016 Undoubtedly, Salvini now strikes a chord with Italians: a recent survey showed that 72 percent of Italians support his line on immigration. Europe. Se è vero che il consulente del ministro della Salute Walter Ricciardi ha firmato un appello francese in favore del Nutriscore (con i "semafori" che penalizzano la dieta mediterranea e le eccellenze del Made in Italy ), contro il sistema Nutrinform a cui ha aderito il Governo italiano, si dimetta dall'incarico. Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician who is currently Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior. Matteo Salvini has taken his brand of nativism to new levels by declaring that he no longer eats Nutella because it is made with too many hazelnuts from Turkey. Late in May, he said Italy was “occupied financially by Germans, French and eurocrats”. “Anti-immigration rhetoric has been mounting for years, blaming immigration for the effects of the economic crisis. Observers believe there might not be much behind his uncompromising statements. We rely on advertising to help fund our award-winning journalism. In 1985, at the age of 12, he took part in game show Doppio slalom (the Italian version of Blockbusters), hosted by Corrado Tedeschi on Canale 5 and in 1993, at the age of 20, he participated on Il pranzo è servito, hosted by Davide Mengacci, which was broadcast by Rete 4. “He says these things to try to appear closer to the people,” he said. View the profiles of people named Matteo Salvini. and such. Albertazzi, the political scientist, adds: In historic first, Roma included as ethnicity on UK census, Nigeria university strike caused ‘crisis’ for small businesses, ‘Afraid this won’t end’: Italy in grips of fresh COVID crisis, From trash to treasure: The Nigerians recycling waste into wealth, Biden stumbles climbing ‘windy’ steps to Air Force One, ‘Unacceptable’: Erdogan slams Biden over ‘killer’ Putin comment, Pakistan army chief says ‘it is time to bury the past’ with India, ‘Grandstanding’: US, China trade rebukes in testy talks, Al Jazeera Centre for Public Liberties & Human Rights. “On the streets, Salvini acted as opposition even if he had [fellow party members who were] Cabinet members when I was mayor,” says former Milan Mayor Gabriele Albertini, according to Il Militante (The Militant) – a book on Salvini by journalists Alessandro Madron and Alessandro Franzi. Matteo Salvini is also the populist leader of Lega or League. Salvini is often criticised as an “opportunist”. At 45 years old, Salvini, who is also deputy premier, is leader of the League – a former regionalist party that he turned into a national far-right force, campaigning mostly against immigration. The leader of the Italian opposition often makes a point in homely social media posts of extolling the delights of Italian food, posting photos of himself lifting a glass of Tuscan red or tucking into a pizza. He is the leader of the populist Northern League party. Once a Eurosceptic, in March Salvini said he had no intention of taking Italy out of the Eurozone. There is no alternative narrative to fight it and explain the world – only generic appeals to solidarity.”. Anti-immigration rhetoric has been mounting for years, blaming immigration for the effects of the economic crisis. Some Turkish nuts are used because Italian growers cannot satisfy all of Ferrero’s needs but the breakfast spread does contain home-grown hazel nuts as well. A week later, he called for a census of Roma minorities, threatening to expel non-Italian Roma. Three weeks into Italy’s populist coalition government, a new face has emerged on the international stage: Matteo Salvini. He is one of Europe’s most followed politicians on social media, with 2.7m Facebook fans – by comparison, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has 2.5m. Mr Salvini is an enthusiastic fan of social media, using Facebook and Twitter to announce policies, criticise opponents and garner support. Matteo Salvini goes on trial over migrant kidnapping charges. For example, she explains that after the Aquarius fallout, Italian navy ships have continued to rescue migrants at sea and bring them to Italy, often at night. His attack on one of Italy's best known and most widely sold products, Nutella, is proof of that. And after two decades of campaigning for the Northern League – a party that called for Northern Italy’s secession from the South, hence the name – when he became the leader, he scrapped the party’s foremost policy target and turned it into a nationalist party, rebranding it as just “League”. "I found out that Nutella uses Turkish nuts and I prefer to help companies that use Italian products. I prefer to eat Italian and help Italian farmers because they need help," the leader of the hard-Right League said at a rally in the northern city of Ravenna after a woman in the crowd suggested he eat a Nutella sandwich to keep his energy up. “But I might have erred on the side of caution.”. And a recent poll showed it might have 29 percent now – taking over the Five Star Movement (M5S) as Italy’s most popular party. Salvini’s rise may look lightning fast, but it has been years in the making. Migration to Italy is a real issue, the Eurozone and the relationship between states and the EU is a real issue – but populists simplify answers,” he says. Matteo Salvini has taken his brand of nativism to new levels by declaring that he no longer eats Nutella because it is made with too many hazelnuts from Turkey. Marina Petrillo, a senior editor with Open Migration, believes that Italy’s previous centre-left government and the media prepared the ground by attacking NGOs and dehumanising migrants. Matteo Renzi, former prime minister and now head of a small centre-Left breakaway party, said it was absurd that Mr Salvini was targeting Nutella at a time when the country is debating the future of Nato, next year’s national budget, job losses at Alitalia and the threatened closure of a huge steel plant in the south. “He would just let people phone in and talk to them.”. Published: 2 Oct 2020 .