Umberto Bossi has returned to talk about the League, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the birth of the party. “The League needs a new leader who goes in the direction of autonomy, who puts the northern question back at the center. Could Giorgetti replace Salvini? Giorgetti is a good guy, but I won’t say anything otherwise they’ll massacre him. If the base doesn’t approve the programs , you’re not going anywhere. It becomes a soap bubble”, declared the founder of the Northern League, who made it known that he will not be present at the party’s party in Varese, where secretary Salvini will be there instead. “I have been accustomed to Umberto Bossi’s criticisms for thirty years, I also talk about it in my book which will be released at the end of April. I listen to them with attention and gratitude, I only reply that seeing him healthy is the best gift for this celebration”, declared the leader of the League in a note.
“Salvini has taken his own path”
“Today I am very happy, I saw a lot of people that I hadn’t seen for years, it’s the League of 40 years ago”, declared Bossi, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the League with around a hundred militants in Gemonio. “Salvini took his own path, everyone takes their own path, it takes a bit of head,” declared Bossi. Regarding the current secretary, the Senatur declared: “I haven’t heard from him. I have to tell the truth, I expected him to appear without saying anything”, underlined Bossi, who then recalled the beginnings of the Northern League. “The League of 40 years ago was rooted in the popular base, in the council in Varese they spoke in dialect. If the roots are strong, it is difficult for them to stop. We certainly made a great effort, it was a different world, there was a need again and anyone with political intuition would have understood it. We were born there,” the Senatur declared. “Today we need another push to change things, the League must be a spur”, he then concluded.
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Matteo Salvini, 10 years ago he was elected secretary of the Northern League
The party
During the party, Bossi shared with those present the most significant moments of these years of political militancy. “My best memory? When we went to the Po, Calderoli still keeps the ampoules”, he said. In Bossi, Marco Reguzzoni brought a bottle of wine to accompany the chocolate cake with the writing ‘Dear Umberto we love you’ and the ambulance driver who helped Senatur when he suffered a stroke in 2004. Finally also a joke about the Meloni government: “This executive must obtain results.”
