League leader pledges to put Italians first as election campaign intensifies


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  • Saturday, 24 Feb 2018

An Italian Northern League supporter holds a flare during a political rally led by leader Matteo Salvini in Milan, Italy February 24, 2018. REUTERS/Tony Gentile

MILAN (Reuters) - Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy's right-wing League party, drew thousands of supporters to a rally in Milan on Saturday as campaigning intensified ahead of a March 4 election expected to give most seats to a coalition of which his party is a member.

Salvini, 44, who has pulled the League away from its original aim to secure independence for the wealthy north towards euro-scepticism and opposing immigration, told crowds in Duomo square he would put Italians first.

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