Over half of the rightwing League
party's Senate candidates for the September 25 general election
are women, leader Matteo Salvini announced Friday.
"We've wrapped up the League's candidates for the first past the
post seats in the Senate, and 56% of them are women," he
tweeted.
"Others promise and quarrel while the League does things," he
said.
The League is in a right/centre-right coalition with the
post-Fascist Brothers of Italy (FdI) party and three-time
ex-premier and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right
Forza Italia (FI) party.
FdI is currently polling at over 24%, the League at 12.5%, and
FI at 8%.
The alliance rule on the premiership candidate is that the
leader who gets the most votes will bid for it.
At the moment FdI leader Giorgia Meloni looks set to become
Italy's first post-Fascist and first woman premier.
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