LUGO, ITALY - 5 JANUARY 2020: Matteo Salvini, former Interior Minister of Italy and leader of the far-right League party, claps his hands at his arrival at the League party dinner in Lugo, Italy, on January 5th 2020.<br /> <br /> Matteo Salvini is campaigning in the region of Emilia Romagna to support the League candidate Lucia Borgonzoni running for governor.<br /> <br /> After being ousted from government in September 2019, Matteo Salvini has made it a priority to campaign in all the Italian regions undergoing regional elections to demonstrate that, in power or not, he still commands considerable support.<br /> <br /> The January 26th regional elections in Emilia Romagna, traditionally the home of the Italian left, has been targeted by Matteo Salvini as a catalyst for bringing down the government. A loss for the center-left Democratic Party (PD) against Mr Salvini's right would strip the centre-left party of control of its symbolic heartland, and probably trigger a crisis in its coalition with the Five Star Movement.
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