Politics · Italy · 21 hrs ago
Lega senators to decide Romeo’s future as group leader on November 17
The Lega’s senators will decide Romeo’s future on November 17 at a meeting in Italy’s Senate.
Massimiliano Romeo leads the party’s senators, and 20 of the 29 senators have backed a move to challenge him.
Matteo Salvini, the Lega’s leader, said most senators seemed to have made up their minds, but he will not attend the meeting.
Marco Dreosto is seen as the likely successor if Romeo is removed.
The dispute reflects a wider split over demands from northern party members to give the North more attention and make the Lega more federalist.
The leadership challenge could deepen those internal divisions, while a possible move against Romeo’s role leading the party in Lombardy has not been ruled out.
The party has suspended most of its Lombardy congresses, with the Varese meeting set to go ahead.
Lega senators will decide on November 17 whether to remove Massimiliano Romeo as their group leader.
The meeting was postponed by ten days and will be held at the Senate.
Twenty of the party’s 29 senators signed a request for the meeting.
Matteo Salvini said he would not attend and suggested most senators had made up their minds.
Marco Dreosto, the Lega’s coordinator in Friuli Venezia Giulia, is considered a likely successor.
- Who
- Lega senators will decide Romeo’s future. Marco Dreosto is seen as a likely successor.
- What
- The senators will vote on whether to remove Massimiliano Romeo as their group leader.
- When
- November 17.
- Where
- At the Senate in Rome.
- Why
- The meeting follows an internal challenge to Romeo amid disagreements over the party’s direction and priorities.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
ANSA reported that the Lega senators’ meeting had been set for November 17, ten days later than first requested.
Lega senators are due to decide whether to remove Romeo as group leader.
- Meeting date
- November 17
- Senators signing request
- 20 of 29
- Romeo’s role
- Lega group leader in the Senate
- Potential successor
- Marco Dreosto, Lega coordinator in Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Salvini’s attendance
- He said he would not attend
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What people are saying
The majority of the senators, it seems to me, have a clear idea. But ask them.
Now, however, we are losing our role as interlocutors for businesses and the North, at the expense of other issues, also legitimate, such as security and immigration.