The founder of the Northern League returned to talk about his party, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of its birth: “We were once rooted in the popular base, today we need a leader who moves towards autonomy and puts the northern question back at the centre”, he declared . Then on Salvini: “he took his path”. The secretary of the League replies: “I always listen to him carefully.” Tomorrow the Senatur will not be at the party in Varese
Umberto Bossi has returned to talk about the League, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the birth of the party. “The League needs a new leader who goes in the direction of autonomy, who puts the northern question back at the center. Could Giorgetti replace Salvini? Giorgetti is a good guy, but I won’t say anything otherwise they’ll massacre him. If the base doesn’t approve the programs , you’re not going anywhere. It becomes a soap bubble”, declared the founder of the Northern League, who made it known that he will not be present at the party’s party in Varese, where secretary Salvini will be there instead. “I have been used to Umberto Bossi’s criticisms for thirty years, I also talk about it in my book which will be released at the end of April. I listen to them with attention and gratitude, I only reply that seeing him healthy is the best gift for this party”, declared the leader of the League in a note.
“Salvini has taken his own path”
“Today I am very happy, I saw many people that I hadn’t seen for years, it is the League of 40 years ago”, declared Bossi, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the League with around a hundred militants in Gemonio. “Salvini took his own path, everyone takes their own path, it takes a bit of head,” declared Bossi. Regarding the current secretary, the Senatur declared: “I haven’t heard from him. I have to tell the truth, I expected him to appear without saying anything”, underlined Bossi, who then recalled the beginnings of the Northern League. “The League of 40 years ago was rooted in the popular base, in the council in Varese they spoke in dialect. If the roots are strong, it is difficult for them to stop. We certainly made a great effort, it was a different world, there was a need again and anyone with political intuition would have understood it. That’s where we were born,” the Senatur declared. “Today we need another push to change things, the League must be a spur”, he then concluded.
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During the party, Bossi shared with those present the most significant moments of these years of political militancy. “My best memory? When we went to the Po, Calderoli still keeps the ampoules”, he said. In Bossi, Marco Reguzzoni brought a bottle of wine to accompany the chocolate cake with the writing ‘Dear Umberto we love you’ and the ambulance driver who helped Senatur when he suffered a stroke in 2004. Finally also a joke about the Meloni government: “This executive must obtain results.”
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The League turns 40, the history of the party from Bossi to Salvini. PHOTO
Born in the 1980s as the “Lombard Autonomist League”, over time it will change its name, program and leader. Its founder Umberto Bossi began to make proselytes by driving around the Po Valley and writing on the walls. From the dream of secession to the goal of autonomy, from entry into Parliament to entry into the first Berlusconi government, up to the national party capable of reaching 34% in the 2019 European elections
THE BIRTH OF THE LEAGUE
- The League turns 40. It was 12 April 1984 when the Lombard Autonomist League was born in the office of a notary in Varese, the embryo of the future Northern League (from which in turn the current party led by Salvini was born). The original founders were six: Umberto Bossi, his brother-in-law, his future wife, a merchant, a dentist and an architect
BOSSI’S CAR TOURS
- “Before the foundation, Bossi inaugurated the trend of posters and writings on the walls of motorways and old buildings, which he did at night, as a forerunner of graffiti artists”, they say from the League. “He toured the North frantically with an old Citroen, for a proselytizing action”
THE NEWSPAPER
- Years before, Umberto Bossi had founded a newspaper, Lombardia Autonomista, and was its director and publisher