The Salvini effect: what's behind Matteo Salvini's popularity?

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In 2013, Italy''s Northern far right league, led by a man named Matteo Salvini won just 4% of the vote. It rebranded itself as "The League" and the latest polls project that if a national election was held today, it would win 33% of the vote. Matteo Salvini, now Interior Minister, leads a hardline posture on immigration as he hits out at the EU''s mismanagement of the migration crisis.

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