liberal italy. imagine san francisco and you re in the ballpark. the city is famously known as the fat for its rich food. the wise for the university. and the red for its leftist politics. i ve come to meet mattia santori, one of the leaders of the sardines movement. that s a rebel alliance by the way not something bad that happens after eating too much oily fish. he s an accidental political hero and he loves food. ciao. hi stanley. nice to meet you. ciao. matteo salvini! the sardines mobilized when right-wing politician, matteo salvini, campaigned here in the winter of 2019 during regional elections for the league, an anti-immigration populist party. salvini is kind of a donald trump, a little donald trump in italy and it was last november and salvini was launching the campaign in emilia-romagna from bologna. so we said, let s organize
in the ballpark. the city is famously known as the fat for its rich food. the wise for the university. and the red for its leftist politics. i ve come to meet mattia santori, one of the leaders of the sardines movement. that s a rebel alliance by the way not something bad that happens after eating too much oily fish. he s an accidental political hero and he loves food. ciao. hi stanley. nice to meet you. ciao. matteo salvini! the sardines mobilized when right-wing politician, matteo salvini, campaigned here in the winter of 2019 during regional elections for the league, an anti-immigration populist party. salvini is kind of a donald trump, a little donald trump in italy and it was last november and salvini was launching the campaign in emilia-romagna from bologna. so we said, let s organize
mean it s a grassroots movement what chance does this have going up against i mean just obviously it remains the most popular party in italy and that s even after they suffered the big blow over the summer when mentos have been pulled the plug on the coalition government with the 5 star movement and now the league is in the opposition but recent opinion polls did give it still give it a where 30 percent popularity there really strong said the regional level also in the region and in yet among in the region where the sardines movement was. launched but this movement has taken so by surprise you know for a long time he has been the one filling up the squares and and using social media to fuel his popularity and now for the 1st time we see like a counter movement here really sparking this kind of participation and momentum so when he has responded ironically proposing for example this new league logo on his fade facebook page with the slogan. it s keaton s with. cat.