Us with Salvini (, NcS) was a populist political party in Italy. The party, founded by Matteo Salvini on 19 December 2014, was the sister party of Lega Nord (LN) for southern Italy, Lazio, and Sardinia (where the LN regional section was never recognised as one of its "national" sections, and where the party joined forces with the Sardinian Action Party, PSd'Az).
Salvini was the party's president, Raffaele Volpi (a senator of Lega Nord) vice-president, while Angelo Attaguile, formerly a member of the Party of Sicilians, who was the first deputy to join the party, secretary and leader in Sicily.
In the 2018 general election, NcS ran under the "Lega" umbrella alongside Lega Nord, the aforementioned PSd'Az and minor parties. More than 20 deputies and senators were elected outside the Centre-North. As of early 2019, the party seems no longer active. Since 2018, membership recruitment by the LN in the central and southern Italy has been made under the name of "Lega per Salvini Premier" (LSP), which practically supplanted NcS.
Before NcS, there were previous attempts to establish a LN-sponsored party in the South: "Lega Italia Federale", Lega Sud Ausonia (which is still active and espouses an anti-northern line), and the Federalist Alliance.
History
Soon after the 2014 European Parliament election, held in May, Matteo Salvini, federal secretary of Lega Nord (LN), proposed the creation of a sister party for the regions of Italy where the LN was not active.
On 19 December 2014 Salvini launched the new party during a press conference in Rome.
Since its early months of activity, NcS formed ties with several local activists and organisations, stretching from Souad Sbai, a former deputy of The People of Freedom (PdL) of Moroccan origin and leading anti-Islamist, to the Italian nationalist and neo-fascist organisation CasaPound. On 8 February 2015 Salvini and Attaguile, a deputy, launched the Sicilian section of the party in Palermo: in the event, he apologised for Lega Nord's past rhetoric towards the South.
On 27 February 2015 the LN and NcS organised a joint rally in Rome. Along with Salvini and Luca Zaia, speakers featured the representatives of some social/professional associations and trade unions (including Claudio Ardizio, a local leader of The Other Europe, a left-wing electoral coalition), the aforementioned Souad Sbai, the leader of New Italy Party and flat tax supporter Armando Siri, the president of Brothers of Italy (FdI) Giorgia Meloni and the deputy leader of CasaPound Simone Di Stefano, who spoke on behalf of the newly organised Sovereignty association. In November another rally took place in Bologna, that time with the participation of Forza Italia (FI) leader Silvio Berlusconi, along with Meloni. CasaPound/Sovereignty, which was not invited, disliked Salvini's "moderate" turn and deserted the rally. Both Salvini and CasaPound leaders confirmed that the two parties would no longer cooperate due to diverging views.
Seven deputies, including Attaguile, since joined the party: Barbara Saltamartini (ex-AN/PdL/NCD), Giuseppina Castiello (ex-AN/PdL/FI) Alessandro Pagano (ex-FI/PdL/NCD), Carmelo Lo Monte (ex-DC/PPI/DE/UdC/MpA/CD/PSI), Trifone Altieri (ex-FI/PdL/FI/CR/DI), and Roberto Marti (ex-FI/PdL/FI/CR/DI).
In April 2016 it was announced that Irene Pivetti, a former President of the Chamber of Deputies who had left the LN in 1996 and was then president of the Italy–China Development Foundation, would head the party's slate in the upcoming municipal election in Rome. In the 2016 local elections the LN did well in the Centre-North, especially in its stronghold Veneto, while the NcS obtained negligible results, including 2.7% in Rome.
In the 2017 local elections the NcS was present only in a few municipalities, obtaining some convincing results only in the Centre-South (closer to the areas of LN's influence), including 6.8% in L'Aquila (Abruzzo), 8.5% in Ladispoli, 6.6% in Guidonia Montecelio, 6.6% in Fonte Nuova and 3.0% in Cerveteri (Lazio), 3.3% in Mondragone (northern Campania), and occasionally 4.9% in Santeramo in Colle (Apulia).