Italy's rebranded Lega seeks national posture for 2018 vote
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The once-secessionist Northern League has dropped "Northern" from its logo as it seeks to present itself as a national party in next year's parliamentary vote.
Party leader Matteo Salvini unveiled the new logo — "Lega" — on Thursday. Below it is his name as the party's candidate for premier
Salvini said he expected to win over 20 percent of the vote and to lead a center-right coalition that includes Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia.
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Salvini, who has been campaigning hard in southern Italy, said the League was offering its platform "not just to part of the country, but to 60 million Italians."
The League's anti-migrant policies have been viewed as xenophobic, and Salvini in the past has been greeted by jeers outside the northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto.