Former deputy prime minister and
interior minister Matteo Salvini, head of the right-wing League
party, on Thursday night at Bologna's Paladozza, officially
opened the election campaign for League candidate Lucia
Bergonzoni as Emilia Romagna governor next January 26.
About 5,000 people were present.
At the same time, adversaries, many university students and
youths from 'social centre' radical leftist squats conducted a
protest in the city's Piazza Maggiore against the League.
Police prevented clashes between the two sides.
Salvini has pledged to fill the same square at the end of the
campaign.
Democratic Party (PD) leader Nicola Zingaretti thanked the
organisers of the anti-League protest.
The PD and its government partner the anti-establishment
5-Star Movement (M5S) are hoping to recover votes in
Emilia-Romagna and Calabria on January 26 after a recent heavy
defeat in Umbria.
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