Originally Posted by
drillerpie
Lega, Forza Italia and a couple of far right parties in a coalition government is nothing new. They ran Italy together for most of the nineties and 00s.
When Salvini was getting low single digit numbers in the polls he was happy railing against the EU (as with Farage, not against the MEPs salary for doing nothing though) but since he's realised he might actually have to govern at some point he's been more cautious.
The last I heard he had gone back on a promise to have a referendum on changing back to the lira, and with good reason. His votes come from the wealthier northern regions, if he changed their savings into Monopoly money from one day to the next he'd be lynched.
Italy won't leave the EU, they are actually quite pro European. If and when the immigration situation is sorted out, Salvini will fade back into obscurity, and have to go back to targeting Romanians and southern Italians.