{"id":43654,"date":"2018-06-03T01:05:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T23:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/06\/03\/five-star-and-the-league-can-italys-odd-couple-last\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T01:05:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T23:05:32","slug":"five-star-and-the-league-can-italys-odd-couple-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=43654","title":{"rendered":"Five Star and the League: can Italy\u2019s \u2018odd couple\u2019 last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the country\u2019s prosperous north, there\u2019s firm backing for League leader Matteo SalviniTo his many critics, Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right League, is a racist opportunist who is about to take Italy down a dangerously confrontational and xenophobic path. To his supporters, in the League\u2019s northern heartlands, he is a \u201cwarrior\u201d whose high-profile instalment as interior minister in western Europe\u2019s first populist government is a symbol of the country\u2019s much-needed pivot to the right.That is certainly the view in Pontida, a relatively prosperous village in the northern Lombardy region\u2019s Alpine foothills, where thousands of League supporters converge once a year for a rowdy celebration in the party\u2019s honour. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jun\/02\/matteo-salvini-italy-interior-minister-far-right-hardline-immigration\" target=\"_blank\">Five Star and the League: can Italy\u2019s \u2018odd couple\u2019 last?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the country\u2019s prosperous north, there\u2019s firm backing for League leader Matteo SalviniTo his many critics, Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right League, is a racist opportunist who is about to take Italy down a dangerously confrontational and xenophobic path. To his supporters, in the League\u2019s northern heartlands, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}