Five regional presidents, including Attilio Fontana (Lombardy), Luca Zaia (Veneto) and Massimiliano Fedriga (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), are party members.

The party always opposed illegal immigration and often adopted Eurosceptic stances, joining the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament in 2019.

To revive a party overwhelmed by scandals and which had reached historical lows in the 2013 Italian general election,[23] Salvini led the LN though dramatic changes, first by re-orienting it toward the European nationalist right.

In October 2017, Salvini announced that in the 2018 general election the party would be re-branded simply as "Lega" and would field lists also in central-southern Italy.

On 14 December 2017, the "Lega per Salvini Premier" party was established by long-time LN member Roberto Calderoli and its constitution was published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale.

[28] LSP's official goals were the transformation of Italy "into a modern federal state through democratic and electoral methods" and the support of "the freedom and sovereignty of peoples at the European level".

The so-called "yellow-green government" was led by Giuseppe Conte, an independent jurist close to the M5S, and included Salvini as minister of the Interior.

During 2019, along with the LN's membership recruitment in the Centre-North, the party launched a parallel drive in the Centre-South for the LSP,[31] practically supplanting NcS.

The LN, unable to be dissolved because of its burden of €49 million debt to the Italian state, was instead formally kept alive, while its membership cards were donated to former activists.

However, in the 2020 Emilia-Romagna regional election the party's candidate, Lucia Borgonzoni, stopped at 43.6% of the vote and was defeated by incumbent president Stefano Bonaccini (PD).

[42] Subsequently, President Sergio Mattarella appointed Mario Draghi to form a cabinet,[43] which won support from the League, the M5S,[44] the PD[45] and FI.

[71] Consequently, Draghi tendered his final resignation to President Mattarella, who dissolved the houses of Parliament, leading to a snap election.

[72][73] In the 2022 general election, the League, which was part of the winning centre-right coalition, won 8.8% of the vote, compared to 26.0% gained by the Brothers of Italy (FdI) and 8.1% by FI.

[83] The inaugural event of the Committee, held in early December, was attended by some 600 people, including former ministers Roberto Castelli and Francesco Speroni.

[84][85][86][87] Contextually, provincial congresses were held in some of the party's strongholds: critics of Salvini affiliated with the CN narrowly won in Bergamo and Brescia, while the pro-Salvini wing retained Varese for a handful of votes[88][89] and Roberto Marcato, a regional minister loyal to Zaia, was leading the challenge in Veneto.

[96][97][98][99] In the election, held in February 2023, Attilio Fontana was re-elected president with 54.7% of the vote, 20pp more than his closest opponent (while Moratti was a distant third and would return to FI one year later),[100] as well as improving the 2018's tally.

In June 2023, the LV held its congress: Marcato retired from the race when Franco Manzato emerged as an alternative opposition candidate.

[105][106] At the congress, outgoing federal commissioner Alberto Stefani, a loyalist of Salvini, was thus elected secretary with 64.3% of the vote against Manzato's 35.7%,[107] possibly with Zaia's silent support.

[122] In the end, neither Fedriga nor Zaia chose to stand,[123][124] while Vannacci accepted to be a candidate,[125] despite strong reservations by virtually all senior members of the party.

[132][133][134] Contextually, in the 2024 Piedmontese regional election the party won a mere 9.4% of the vote, while being part of the winning centre-right coalition led by incumbent president Alberto Cirio.

[137] In December 2024 Massimiliano Romeo was elected secretary of Lega Lombarda unopposed, after that Luca Toccalini, Salvini's candidate, had withdrawn from the race due to lack of support.

[138][139] In his victory speech, Romeo reclaimed the party's northern identity, while president of Lombardy Fontana spoke of "free Padania".

[163] However, fault lines are more complicate: Giorgetti is also a devout Catholic,[164] Fontana has voiced concerns over the party's European alliances,[165][166] while Crippa is outspokenly in favour of abortion and euthanasia.

[167] While continuing to support autonomism, regionalism and federalism, under Salvini the League has gradually but decidedly set aside Padanian nationalism and separatism, which were long pursued by Lega Nord.

[173] According do Daniele Albertazzi, Arianna Giovannini and Antonella Seddone, "regionalism has been replaced by an empty form of nativist nationalism, which fails to address socio-economic issues related to the North–South divide", while "populism remains central to the party's strategic communication, but the EU has taken Rome's place as the people's 'enemy'".

In early 2022, two leading Democrats, minister Dario Franceschini and Goffredo Bettini, hinted that the League could re-affirm a "centrist" position[177][178] and could again form a coalition government with the PD after the next general election,[179][180] respectively.

More specifically, its authors designed a "country that should be liberal in its economy and society, wisely conservative on values, profoundly republican in its collective culture".

Following President Sergio Mattarella's rejection of the appointment of Paolo Savona (who had expressed himself on a "plan B" for Italy's exit from the Eurozone)[201] as minister of the Economy in Giuseppe Conte's first government, the League reviewed its opposition to the single currency.

[215] Additionally, a majority of the party's regional councillors in Veneto was supportive of a bill that would have regulated assisted suicide for terminally ill patients, under particular conditions.

[223] In September 2021 Morisi resigned for "personal and family problems" and, right after, he was investigated following an accusation of cocaine transfer by two Romanian boys,[224] a case that was archived in November.