Rightist leaders Marine Le Pen in
France and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands on Monday
congratulated League leader Matteo Salvini for the anti-migrant,
Euroskeptic party's strong showing in Sunday's Italian
elections.
"The spectacular advance and the arrival in the lead of the
coalition of the League led by our ally and friend Matteo
Salvini is a new stage in the reawakening of the peoples," said
rightist nationalist Front National (FN) leader Le Pen.
Islamophobic and anti-EU PVV leader Wilders offered his
congratulations in English and Italian.
Le Pen and Wilders are in the same rightist caucus as Salvini
at the European Parliament.
The League scored 16-17% according to projections, overtaking
Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia which scored about 14%.
The two allies had been running neck-and-neck in pre-election
polls,
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