Matteo Salvini
Italy
Lega per Salvini Premier
Italian Minister of Transports and Infrastructures
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Matteo Salvini is an Italian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport since 2022. He has been Federal Secretary of Italy's Lega party since December 2013 and an Italian senator since March 2018. Salvini represented Northwestern Italy in the European Parliament from 2004 to 2018.
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Sep 6, 2026
Lean Left
Italy's Vice Premier called for taxing banks like Spain, citing Socialist leader Pedro Sánchez's approach.
His borrowing of a left policy demonstrates that right-wing populists are forced to embrace popular economic measures, undercutting their anti-tax rhetoric.