Talk:Lega Nord

Leadership

@Checco and Yakme: I definitely don't understand the meaning of your edits: a leader is a head who leads a party. Currently the LN is under commissioner, does not carry out political activity, so it does not even need a leader to decide the political line. You write "Its current leader is Matteo Salvini", but the LN can no longer be considered an actual current party, but just a "bad company". It seems to me yet redundant to indicate him in the infobox, but reiterating this information in the incipit of a party that is no longer politically active is a forcing. If the sources state that the party is no longer politically active, I do not seem to deny the reality. Why else have we implemented the other page? What sources claim Salvini is the current leader of the LN? It seems to me an original research.--Scia Della Cometa (talk) 17:03, 29 January 2022 (UTC)

A leader of an organization or group does not need to be an official post. We can write "de facto leader", I would also be fine with this. We cannot hide the fact that the political leadership of LN is of Matteo Salvini. --Yakme (talk) 08:59, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

I have nothing to add to what User:Yakme wrote. Salvini is clearly the leader of the LN. My only difference is that I would not add "de facto", otherwise, we should add "de facto" also for Matteo Renzi in the Italia Viva article and many other leaders. And I am fine with the two-article solution. --Checco (talk) 09:40, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

@Checco and Yakme: It seems to me that both of you have not understood or read what I have written: official posts or comparisons with other parties have nothing to do with this case. The LN is politically inactive, ergo it does not need political leadership (but only ordinary administration), ergo there is no "current" leadership.--Scia Della Cometa (talk) 10:12, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

The LN is mostly inactive, but it is not a former party, and its leader is clearly Salvini. --Checco (talk) 10:14, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

It is not a former party, but as you say it is inactive. If LN is not involved in politics, how does it get a leader? The leader is the one who gives the political direction to a party, until proven otherwise. In my opinion, indicating Salvini as the leader in the infobox is not formally correct but he could remain. Indicating him as the "current" leader of the party (which, let us repeat, is inactive) in the incipit seems to me a forcing.--Scia Della Cometa (talk) 10:25, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

I am extremely confused: how can a political party be at the same time inactive and currently active? If you say that the party is politically inactive, then by definition it is a former party. --Yakme (talk) 14:44, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

I wrote "mostly inactive", indeed. Just think that LSP cannot use its symbol, if not by concession from the LN. I support the compromise we reached thanks to your interventions: two articles, history of LN updated until mid 2020, Salvini leader of both parties. --Checco (talk) 17:54, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

I would describe Lega Nord as a dormant party, rather than a defunct one. It could be 'reactivated' in future, or be merged into LpSP (or another party), or formally wound up at some later date. We don't know yet. The compromise solution we seem to have reached is the best outcome for the time being, until we know otherwise.--Autospark (talk) 19:26, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

@Autospark: Indeed the LN is politically dormant. In the future it could become politically active again, this cannot be known, but it is undeniable that it currently does not carry out any political activity. @Yakme: Actually the matter is quite simple, LN still exists as a legal entity, but politically it could be defined as a former party. It was not dissolved for one simple reason: the debt to the Italian state. So it was created a party that is instead politically active, the LSP. So the answer is: it is politically inactive, but still exists as a legal entity as it is burdened by debt with Italy. @Checco: the concession of the symbol is not a political activity, so I do not see how it can be linked to the leadership of the party. Some quibbles have been entered into the statute to make the LN and the LSP appear to be the same party to voters, but political activity is something else.

So what I mean is that Salvini could also be generically referred to as the leader in the infobox, since he was the last leader of the LN (although for me that would not be necessary). But I think it is deeply wrong and redundant to indicate him as the "current" leader in the incipit of the page, because it is simply not true, Salvini is not currently leading LN.--Scia Della Cometa (talk) 20:58, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

I would like to recover this discussion for a moment: do you still really think that Matteo Salvini is the leader of a practically defunct party? A leader is someone who lead something, but if a party is inactive (rather, under extraordinary administration), how does he lead it? Shouldn't this useless position for a party like LN be removed at all?? --Scia Della Cometa (talk) 21:11, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

The LN is not defunct, but in pause. Its practical leader is still Salvini, while its formal one is a Salvini appointee. --Checco (talk) 21:29, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

I know that LN is not defunct, but practically it has no longer leaders. What source states that Salvini is still leader of LN? Iezzi is an administrator, Boassi has an honorary charge, but I don't see activites of Salvini about this party in the latest years, still indicating him as the leader of a bad company seems anachronistic to me.--Scia Della Cometa (talk) 21:34, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

@Checco Can we clarify this point definitively? Should the Northern League be described as a current bad company or as an active party? I have clear ideas about it, but a bad company cannot objectively have a leader... Scia Della Cometa (talk) 15:23, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

The party is dormient, but fully active. Its leader is Salvini, while its formal secretary is Iezzi (a close aide to Salvini). --Checco (talk) 20:24, 10 June 2023 (UTC)

Would you accept the indication of Salvini as the "last leader" as a compromise? Scia Della Cometa (talk) 09:40, 11 June 2023 (UTC)

"Last (or "latest") federal secretary", if you will. --Checco (talk) 14:07, 12 June 2023 (UTC)

Political position

I agree with User:Barlafus's compromise version. The party would be better described as historically "big tent" (until 2000), "centre-right" (2000–2013) and "right-wing" (since 2013). Some sources describe it as "far-right", but they are certainly inaccurate: that position should be mentioned in the article's text and possibly in a note to the infobox, but not in the infobox itself. -- Checco (talk) 06:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

I don't see why there should be a "compromise" version. Compromise between what? We don't have to compromise between ourselves editors here, we need to report what WP:RS state. If enough sources describe Lega Nord also as far-right, then we add it to the list of descriptors. Simple as that, we do not need to "compromise" or give our personal evaluation. Yakme (talk) 11:52, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Giving away polenta

I added this, but it was quietly reverted:

"In 2011, a LN politician gave away hundreds of one-kilo bags of cornmeal for polenta, which is a food that originated in the Americas and he associated with traditional Italian food, while making a statement against couscous, which is made from the same durum semolina wheat as Italian pasta and he associated with African immigrants. Lega Nord endorsed bans on restaurants that do not serve traditional Italian food."

I think the marketing is fun and earned every bit of attention he got from the media.

Also, while that was (I assume) a one-time event, the fact that LN wants to require restaurants to serve traditional Italian food is not just a one-time event. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:41, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

References

Far-right

The sources refer to League for Salvini Premier, not this party. 93.38.68.62 (talk) 12:56, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

You are right. Moreover, neither this party nor Lega are far-right. --Checco (talk) 12:59, 11 May 2024 (UTC)