A League-led rally against the
government in Rome's traditional leftwing rallying point Piazza
San Giovanni Saturday will be "beautiful and peaceful but
determined", the leader of the anti-migrant Euroskeptic party
said Friday.
"It will be a beautiful, peaceful, but determined rally, with
an idea of the future," said Salvini, who recently moved into
the opposition against Premier Giuseppe Conte's second executive
after failing in a bid to trigger a snap election.
"Tomorrow will be a memorable day", he said.
"One month of the new government has been just taxes,
handcuffs (for tax dodgers) and bullshit", he said.
"Tomorrow there will be people asking for honesty and less
taxes", he said.
Replying to criticism that guests would include neofascist
group CasaPound, Salvini quipped "the rally will feature
Fascists, racists and people from Venus".
He also said "there used to be the left in Piazza San
Giovanni, and now there's us, there'll be a human flood, so many
women and men".
"We are with the workers, in the Democratic Party and Italia
Viva there are just bankers," he said.
Salvini expects hundreds of thousands of people to attend the
rally.
The main attendees and speakers will be from the League and
its right-wing allies, ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's
centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party and the far-right Brothers
of Italy (FdI) party.
Salvini has appropriated Rome's traditional leftist stamping
ground, Piazza San Giovanni, for the event.
The League leader called the rally after failing in his bid
for a snap election after pulling the plug on his 14-month
government with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
To his surprise and dismay, the M5S teamed up with its
traditional enemies in the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) to
form Premier Giuseppe Conte's second straight executive.
The M5S-PD government has run into early trouble over the
2020 budget but the measure is expected to be passed despite
continued bickering.
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