Italy's right-wing League opens office near old Communist HQ in symbolic move


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  • Thursday, 09 Jul 2020

FILE PHOTO: Italian far-right leader Matteo Salvini is seen as he leads a protest with Antonio Tajani and Giorgia Meloni (both not pictured) against the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Rome, Italy, June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - The right-wing League party, keen to present itself as the new defender of Italy's working class, will open an office this month on a highly symbolic street in Rome where the country's once-mighty Communist Party had its headquarters

"Factories, workers, teachers, agriculture, craftsmen, are now represented by the League," said Matteo Salvini, leader of the anti-immigrant, eurosceptic League, speaking on Italian TV.

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