Clear majority for 5 yrs says Salvini

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 26 - Sunday's general election has handed a "clear" majority to Italy's centre right coalition and it is solid enough to govern for the next five-year legislative parliamentary term, League leader Matteo Salvini said Monday.
    "I'm confident that for at least five years we'll push ahead without change with a clear centre-right majority," said the nationalist leader, whose party came a distant second in the alliance to Giorgia Meloni's rightwing Brothers of Italy (FdI) and just a hair ahead of Silvio Berlusconi's centre right Forza Italia (FI) in the general election.
    "Yesterday I texted Giorgia Meloni, whom I obviously compliment, she was good: we will work together for a long time".
    FdI, which got around 26% of the vote compared to the League's 8.5-9% and FI's 8%, was the only major party to stay out of the recent national unity government of former European central banker Mario Draghi.
    "Her opposition paid off, and FdI was good in staging a strong opposition", said the league chief.
    "Lat night at 4 o'clock I texted Giorgia and complimented her, she was good.
    "Brothers of Italy was good to wage a strong opposition and being in government for almost two years was not easy, but I'd do it again considering the situation".
    He added that the League's result of 9% "does nor satisfy me, it's not what I worked towards, but with 9% we are in a centre right government in which we will be protagonists." Salvini said the League would not change its team in Lombardy despite seeing a sharp drop in support there. (ANSA).