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Us with Salvini
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<p>Us with Salvini was a <a href="/facts/Populism/J0EXt6XK">populist</a> <a href="/facts/List_of_political_parties_in_Italy/azrIRYyh">political party in Italy</a>. The party, founded by <a href="/facts/Matteo_Salvini/08EhDHwH">Matteo Salvini</a> on 19 December 2014, was the sister party of <a href="/facts/Lega_Nord/zCdsFWxq">Lega Nord</a> (LN) for <a href="/facts/Southern_Italy/KJYA2ooC">southern Italy</a>, <a href="/facts/Lazio/FxXUhtkJ">Lazio</a>, and <a href="/facts/Sardinia/7GGJNHCx">Sardinia</a> (where the LN <a href="/facts/Lega_Nord_Sardinia/4xS7HtmE">regional section</a> was never recognised as one of its "national" sections, and where the party joined forces with the <a href="/facts/Sardinian_Action_Party/jFCSMFJr">Sardinian Action Party</a>, PSd'Az). </p><p>Salvini was the party's president, Raffaele Volpi (a senator of LN) vice-president, while Angelo Attaguile, formerly a member of the <a href="/facts/Party_of_Sicilians/2lCJVcHd">Party of Sicilians</a>, who was the first deputy to join the party, secretary and leader in <a href="/facts/Sicily/E6fug03z">Sicily</a>. </p><p>In the <a href="/facts/2018_Italian_general_election/Hqr8grk7">2018 general election</a>, NcS ran under the "Lega" umbrella alongside Lega Nord, the aforementioned PSd'Az and minor parties. More than 20 deputies and senators were elected outside the Centre-North. As of early 2019, the party seems no longer active. Since 2018, membership recruitment by the LN in the <a href="/facts/Central_Italy/UIRNQyqC">central</a> and <a href="/facts/Southern_Italy/KJYA2ooC">southern Italy</a> has been made under the name of "<a href="/facts/Lega_per_Salvini_Premier/kjfcw4A7">Lega per Salvini Premier</a>" (LSP), which practically supplanted NcS. </p><p>Before NcS, there were previous attempts to establish a LN-sponsored party in the South: "Lega Italia Federale", <a href="/facts/Lega_Sud_Ausonia/RakfoEfI">Lega Sud Ausonia</a> (which is still active and espouses an anti-northern line), and the <a href="/facts/Federalist_Alliance/sQSQfnII">Federalist Alliance</a>. </p>