Demonstration crowd from the right in Rome …

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Some likened it to the famous "March on Rome", an event organized by the Fascist National Party on October 28, 1922, which paved the way for the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini. Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League, was not far behind in the qualification of the event organized by his party on Saturday and his right-wing friends, Silvio Berlusconi of Forza Italia, joined him. and Giorgia Meloni of Fratelli from Italia. Not to mention fascism or the "march on Rome" because it may have been too much, he described the protest as "the founding act" of the reconquest of power.

Salvini, whose party had been an ally of Berlusconi since his first government in 1994, while the Northern League was a small formation only located in northern Italy, won 17.4% of the vote in the elections This was the third national party, far behind the Five Star Movement, with 32.7%, and tied with the center-left Democratic Party and 18.7. On the other hand, during the last European elections in May, the League won 34.3% of the vote, ranking as the first party.

Needless to say, the European elections can not compete with the Italian elections. Whatever the case may be, these findings led Salvini to think that he could become the Italian prime minister if new elections were held. And that's why he boycotted the government of which he was part of the Five Stars. But his plans to go to the elections fell to naught when the M5S joined the PD to form the current government and will continue until the end of the legislature in 2023, unless problems among the allies put the government in crisis and early elections must be called.

This failure in its bid for the elections was the motivation for the rightwing demonstration this Saturday, which describes the current government as "illegal". The nearly 50,000 protesters according to the police and 200,000 according to the League, present on the square in front of the church of San Juan de Letrán in Rome, shouted all the time asking for elections and waving flags of the League but also of Fratelli d 'Italia. A fascist far-right group, known as Casa Pound, whose presence was challenged even by Forza Italia's people, no longer applauded the three leaders who spoke on the stage.

"You all look at the box is a magnificent feeling. I kiss everyone. Thank you for being. This is not the place of Matteo, Giorgia, Silvio, but of you all. It 's not a place of extremists, but proud Italians to be Italian, "said Salvini, addressing the protesters, with compassionate air and". populist who always characterizes him. The leader of the League addressed several issues in his speech in the box of the demonstration. But always with an aggressive tone, even when there are serious problems such as migrants.

"There are those who say that voting for the League is not a Christian. On the other hand, I believe that those who have faith want there to be more games (of migrants). That allows his entry to kneel but dirty hands, "he said. He added: "The facts prove us right. Fewer departures, fewer landings, fewer deaths. With the current government, the number of departures, landings and deaths has increased, "he said, referring to the closing of Italian ports for solidarity boats that have saved migrants in the Mediterranean and that He had decided when he was Minister of the Interior.

Berlusconi went further in his speech and seized them with his left. "Italy does not want to be governed by the left, by the Communists, because the meaning of its government is very clear. He wants to be ruled by us. Because we represent the best Italy, it works, it produces. It is only if we are all together that we can change our Italy. "About the four parties he claims to be communists, he added:" In Italy, there is a fifth left that governs, the judicial left formed by the judiciary, which has never stopped doing the policy "and stated that he was not afraid after spending eight court cases.

"There are seven million disappointed people who do not vote but define themselves as moderate, liberal and anti-communist. Today, we begin our journey for freedom. We are aiming at the next elections together, "he said.

Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Fratelli d'Italia, asked Salvini and Berlusconi to sign a pact, in front of everyone, to make sure that they would never ally with the PD or the M5S. And Meloni, who is more to the right of Berlusconi, called for very strict measures against immigrants. "We will build a government that says that illegal immigration can not be done in Italy. If walls are needed, we will build them. If naval blockades are needed, they will be lifted, "he said, alluding tacitly to the wall designed to be built by US President Trump on the Mexican border and the closure of ports decided by Salvini.