Lega Congress, Salvini: enough money and weapons for Ukraine. Garavaglia: I'm running to reverse the trend

«Now some people turn up their noses because we are patriots but we are because this EU needs to be changed from top to bottom, it's just an enormous burden. We are David against Goliath, the little ones against the big ones." Thus Matteo Salvini from the stage of the extraordinary congress of the League, underway in Milan. In his speech, the outgoing secretary listed the results obtained by the party in the four years of government from the fight against illegal immigration to schools. Without forgetting the battle for differentiated autonomy.

“I hope that no one ever proposes that the League join the European People's Party and form governments with the socialists,” he added. «I already regretted having formed the Draghi government, and I take responsibility for it: never again». And to Garavaglia who talked about his meetings with entrepreneurs from the North he said: «If they also voted for us it would be better... because the entrepreneurs in the North who asked us to join the Draghi government then voted for the only ones who did not join the Draghi government..."

"I ran because the goal is to reverse the trend, we need to wake up." Thus Senator Massimo Garavaglia, candidate for secretary of the League, during his speech at the Northern League congress in Milan. «Surveys are indications, they give direction. We got 8.8% in the elections and we didn't grow. We must grow - he added -. I don't think a measure in the budget law is enough, we scrapped it but nothing has changed. We must reawaken the dream and we must all do it together." And he added: "If I were to win there will be no reprisal, no punishment, no blacklist, we are a family."

Garavaglia reiterated his recipe for the League: federalist, liberal, modern and pragmatic. «Neither black nor red, but free with Bossi, as Salvini chanted at the head of the young Po Valley demonstrations» commented Garavaglia, reiterating: «the League is not extreme and the far right is not in our DNA - he added -. In social terms, the League is further to the left than the left and we must be proud of this."

Then the jab at Salvini for the purchase of Vannacci. «We tried to strengthen the team by buying a player, but it didn't work. What's the problem when you buy players? Which is on the market and if a better offer comes along it goes away. If you fish from the nursery there is attachment to the shirt, we have to fish from the nursery." But also the relaunch: «We have the champions that everyone envies us. If I were to win I want at my side, or rather in front of me, Zaia, Durigon, Giorgetti, and obviously Matteo Salvini. we have the champions."