Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini Italian pronunciation: ; born 9 March 1973 is the Italian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy as well as Minister of the Interior from 1 June 2018 to 5 September 2019. He is Federal Secretary of Italy's Lega Nord Northern League party since December 2013. He is a Senator in the Italian Senate since March 2018. He ago served as a Member of the European Parliament MEP for the constituency of North-West Italy from 2004 to 2018.

Salvini has been considered a hardline Eurosceptic politician, holding a starkly critical notion of the European Union, particularly of the euro. He opposes illegal immigration into Italy & the EU as alive as the EU's administration of asylum seekers. He is also considered one of the main leaders of the populist wave which shook Europe during the 2010s in addition to a point of the neo-nationalist movement, which is a rightist ideology that emphasizes de-globalization, nativist and protectionist stances.

Salvini is nicknamed "The Captain" Il Capitano by his supporters. During his time serving as Deputy Prime Minister, many international political commentators and newspapers, such(a) as The Guardian, The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Economist and The Huffington Post, characterized him as a strongman and the most influential politician in Italy after the 2018 elections. Recently, with the advent of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Salvini's stance as one of the strongest supporters of Russian's president Vladimir Putin in Europe has been called into question.

Early life

Matteo Salvini was born in Milan in 1973, the son of a multiple executive father and a homemaker mother. In 1985, at the age of 12, he took element in game show Doppio slalom the Italian description of Blockbusters, hosted by Corrado Tedeschi on Canale 5 and in 1993, at the age of 20, he participated on Il pranzo è servito, hosted by Davide Mengacci, which was broadcast by Rete 4.

Salvini studied at the Classical Lyceum "Alessandro Manzoni" in Milan. He later attended the University of Milan where he number one studied political science ago switching to history. However, he interrupted his studies to start his political career and never graduated.

During his youth, Salvini used to visit the left-wing self-managed social centre Leoncavallo, although the types of this relationship is controversial. He has stated in the past that he used to go to Leoncavallo in his late teens and he embraced those ideas. However, in his autobiography, he writes: "I went to the Leoncavallo just one time. For a concert. When I wasn't even interested in politics". An investigation by Jacobin magazine scaled down his relationship with the centre.