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Italy’s Giorgia Meloni Wants for a Coalition Partner

Why is her deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, roiling the political waters at every turn, risking the stability of the governing conservative coalition?

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From left, the Dutch Party for Freedom's Geert Wilders, Italy's Matteo Salvini, the Alternative For Germany party's Jörg Meuthen, and France's Marine Le Pen at Milan in 2019. AP/Luca Bruno, file
ROSARIO IACONIS
ROSARIO IACONIS

Who is Italy’s deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini? Is he the astute politico who transformed the once separatist Lega Nord into the nationalist party that advocates on behalf of the Mezzogiorno’s ambitious infrastructure proposal, the Ponte sullo Stretto project?

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ROSARIO IACONIS
ROSARIO IACONIS

Rosario A. Iaconis is an author and educator who embraces Giuseppe Verdi’s dictum: “You may have the universe if I may have Italy.” He serves as Chairman of the Italic Institute of America.

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