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Le Pen Piles Praise on Italian Lega Party's Leading Position After Elections

With no party managing to gain an outright majority in Italy's general elections, the center-right coalition of the Lega Party, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, Brothers of Italy and Us with Italy is expected to dominate the country's parliament.
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Writing on her Twitter page, Marine Le Pen, leader of the French right-wing party National Front, heaped praise on Italy's Lega Party for being at the helm of a center-right coalition after the Italian general election.

"The tremendous progress and the fact that Lega Party of our ally and friend Matteo Salvini heads the [center-right] coalition indicates a new stage in the awakening of the Italian people," she pointed out.

Italy voted in general elections on March 4. The center-right coalition, consisting of Lega, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, right-wing Brothers of Italy and Us with Italy, won 37.48 percent of the vote in the upper house and 36.96 percent in the lower house.

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Lega managed to obtain more than 17 percent in both chambers of the Italian parliament.

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