"Let me lend a hand to Italy, from North to South, for a few more years." Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and Northern League party secretary Matteo Salvini said this while speaking at the League youth conference in Milano Marittima, responding to Giuseppe Cruciani's question about whether he intended to run for mayor of Milan.

There was also room for discussion about alliances, following the betrayal of national deputy secretary Roberto Vannacci, who founded his own National Future party.

"I hope it ends like Venice, where the left had already won. Polls after polls, analysts were giving it up for lost. We'll get there with this alliance: with Vannacci, obviously not today. He voted against the housing plan, and if he thinks we're failures now, I don't think he'll change his mind in a year," Salvini said.

"I can't stand the lack of seriousness," the minister observes. "It's legitimate for them to pursue their own course. I'm interested in winning not for the sake of winning, but in winning to achieve what I believe in, like autonomy, and to do it with my comrades... We are sovereignists in Brussels but autonomists to the core in Italy," he concludes.

(Unioneonline)