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moondust

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4. Salvini is power hungry.

Reply to octoberlib (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2019, 08:18 PM

Aug 2019

Like Farage, LePen, and others who don't like the EU because it has powers that the wannabe despots want for themselves.

My understanding is that Salvini's polling numbers are higher than anybody else in Italy right now so he naturally wants an election that he is pretty sure he will win.

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