The region of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy has voted liberal since World War Two. Elections on Sunday could signal a symbolic shift to the right.
"Traditionally, the Emilia-Romagna was a safe region for the left, so actually it didn't attract a lot of attention in the past, because people took it for granted," Davide Vampa, a lecturer in politics at Aston University, told Euronews.
The northern"Red Emilia" region is the birthplace of Ferrari and Parma ham and home to the cities of Bologna and Modena. It is a center-left stronghold that Salvini's League party hopes to flip. The anti-establishment Five Star movement formed a new governing coalition with the center-left Democratic Party, absent of Salvini's own League party, but theMuch of Italy struggles through an ongoing recession and high unemployment, but the opposite is true in the Emilia-Romagna region, where there is a rich culture and a high degree of social care.
The League's continuing successes have in recent months faced pushback from the"Sardines" movement, which began in Bologna and derived its name from the protestors who packed plazas full while demonstrating against the anti-institution and anti-migrant policies of Salvini.
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