Back ليغا (حزب سياسي) Arabic لقا (سیاسی حیزب) AZB Lliga per Salvini Premier Catalan Lega (Partei) German Λέγκα (πολιτικό κόμμα) Greek Liga (Italia) Spanish Liga (olasz párt) Hungarian Lega per Salvini Premier Italian 살비니 총리 동맹 Korean Liga per el Salvin Premier LMO
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| Secretary | Matteo Salvini |
| Deputy Secretaries | |
| Founded | 14 December 2017 |
| Preceded by | Lega Nord (alive, but inactive) Us with Salvini (disbanded) |
| Headquarters | Via Carlo Bellerio 41, Milan[1] |
| Student wing | Lega Universitaria |
| Youth wing | Lega Giovani |
| Ideology | |
| Political position | Right-wing[15] to far-right[16] |
| National affiliation | Centre-right coalition |
| European affiliation | Patriots.eu |
| European Parliament group | ID (2019–2024) PfE (since 2024) |
| Colours | Blue (official) Green (customary)[a] |
| Chamber of Deputies | 66 / 400 |
| Senate | 29 / 200 |
| European Parliament | 8 / 76 |
| Regional Councils | 127 / 896 |
| Conference of Regions | 5 / 21 |
| Website | |
| www | |
Lega (English: League), whose official name is Lega per Salvini Premier (English: League for Salvini Premier; abbr. LSP), is a right-wing populist political party in Italy, led by Matteo Salvini. The LSP is the informal successor of Lega Nord (English: Northern League, LN).
The LSP was established in December 2017 as the sister party of the LN, active in northern Italy, and as the replacement of Us with Salvini (NcS), LN's previous affiliate in central and southern Italy. The new party aimed at offering LN's values and policies to the rest of the country. Some political commentators described the LSP as a parallel party of the LN, with the aim of politically replacing it, also because of its statutory debt of €49 million.[17][18][19] Indeed, since January 2020, the LN has become mostly inactive and has been practically supplanted by the LSP, which is active all around Italy. The LSP came third in the 2018 general election and first in the 2019 European Parliament election. Like the LN, the LSP is a confederation of regional parties, of which the largest and long-running are Liga Veneta and Lega Lombarda, established in 1980 and 1984, respectively. Despite misgivings within the party's Padanian nationalist faction, the political base of the LSP is in northern Italy, where the party gets most of its support and where it has maintained the traditional autonomist outlook of the LN,[20] especially in Veneto[21] and Lombardy.[22]
In February 2021, the League joined Mario Draghi's government of national unity. After a disappointing result in the 2022 general election, the party joined Giorgia Meloni's government with five ministers, including Giancarlo Giorgetti as minister of Economy and Finance and Salvini as deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure and Transport. The League also participates in 15 regional governments, including those of the two autonomous provinces. Five regional presidents, including Attilio Fontana (Lombardy), Luca Zaia (Veneto) and Massimiliano Fedriga (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), are party members. Fedriga is also the president of the Conference of Regions and Autonomous Provinces.
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