ROMA (ITALPRESS) – In Pontida, in the monastery of San Giacomo, the funeral of Umberto Bossi, founder and historical leader of the Northern League, died Thursday evening at the age of 84. A large crowd of loyalist militants was present outside the church, which fails to contain all those who wanted to participate.
Present at the exequies, among others, the presidents of the Senate and Chamber, Ignazio LaRussia and Lorenzo Fontana, the president of the Council, Giorgia Meloni, and the vice-premier Antonio Tajani and Matteo Salvini, who is also the current leader of the League, as well as ministers and presidents of Region.
On the square set up a maxischermo to attend the direct ceremony. Many militants, of the first hour, with the typical green handkerchief of the League, greeted the arrival of the premier with an applause.
On the notes of “Va’ pensiero”, plastered by the choir of the mountaineers, among applause, of those who witnessed the funeral ceremony, inside the Abbey of San Giacomo and outside the maxischermi, and slogans of leghisti, “sexcession”, “Rome ladrona”, shouted by the militants in the square, the feretro di Umberto Bossi, left the abbey for the last journey towards the burial.
A simple ceremony, in the Pontid of the annual gathering of the North League, chosen by the Senatur to receive the last embrace from the people of Padania, that people who accompanied him throughout his political life. “Today we pray for him, for his soul, we pray also in the coming days, a way to feel it still close”, the words of the abbot of the monastery that celebrated the funeral function. The Minister of Economy, Giancarlo Giorgetti, read the first reading.
SALVINI “TUTTO E’ INIZIATO CON TE”
“Three years ago, as today, a battle that was not only political, but identity, vision, people, destiny. Freedom, autonomy, territory, work, sacrifice, responsibility, justice, security. In four words: masters at our house. Often, then as today, alone against everyone. This is the League, a community on the way. Good trip Umberto, with You everything started, never fine!” So on Instagram the vicepremier and leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, who publishes a photo that portrays him as a young man next to Umberto Bossi.
ROMEO “CONTINUEREMO A PORTARE AVANTI LE SUE IDEE”
“We will continue to carry out its ideas, the League must go on the tracked road, where the question of the north must be resumed with more strength and more vigor.” Massimiliano Romeo, leader in the Senate of the League and secretary of the Lombard League, said this, coming to Pontida. “Even at the time of Bossi there was a project of national autonomy of the territories, we cannot forget a warm theme, alive that is the northern question,” added Romeo.
CASTELLI “QUI NON C’E’ LA LEGA DI SALVINI, CI SONO I LEGHISTI”
“Pontida is the sacred place of the League, here Bossi has had his best moments, today is a moment of pain, the leader abandons us, on the other is a moment of great consolation because here is the people of the League”. Roberto Castelli said it, coming to Pontida. “Here is not the League of Salvini, here is the North League, today there are the loyalists, he chose another way, nothing to do with Bossi and the League of Bossi”, added the former minister.
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