Turnout shot up to 68% in the latest poll. It did the Five Star Movement no favours
HE HUFFED AND he puffed. But, in the end, he did not blow the house down. Matteo Salvini, the leader of the hard-right Northern League, suffered an embarrassing setback on January 26th when his candidate in Emilia-Romagna, a region stretching from central into northern Italy, failed to wrest the governorship from the left’s incumbent.
The result in Emilia-Romagna was a personal blow for Mr Salvini. He had put himself at the front of the campaign and turned it into a plebiscite on his right to lead the country, as the head of a party that has been topping the polls since mid-2018. He had seemed assured of success. Though Emilia-Romagna was often described in the campaign as a stronghold of the left it has drifted steadily rightwards in recent years.
As for the ad hoc movement’s organisers, they vowed to slip back into anonymity. “We were not born to stay on the stage. We stepped onto it because it was right to do so,” said a message on their Facebook page.
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