League secretary can also be Milan mayor, Veneto chief says

(ANSA) - Verona, March 24 - Veneto governor Luca Zaia of the anti-euro and anti-immigrant Northern League on Tuesday endorsed a possible double role for party secretary Matteo Salvini as future mayor of Milan after the populist leader announced his readiness to stand in 2016 municipal polls. Salvini "can be mayor of Milan and secretary of the League.
    The decision is down to him, but in the meantime the results bear him out: he has led the League from 3% to 15%," Zaia said. Earlier Salvini said he was "available if the Milanese so wished".
    "The surveys show that the League's projects are well received. In Milan there is the desire to start afresh after four years of Pisapia," he added. On Sunday incumbent Milan mayor Giuliano Pisapia of the leftwing Left Ecology Freedom party said he would not be running for a second term in 2016, paving the way for discussions on both sides of the political spectrum about who might replace him as mayor of the Lombardy capital. Lombardy, like neighbouring Veneto, is governed by the Northern League.