Bossi

In return, Berlusconi called Bossi "a wounded wild boar."

Italy: A New Look For The Old Right 2008

Amid the trend, Northern League leader Umberto Bossi's influence in government has grown ever stronger, his rhetoric often laced with a racist tinge.

Italy makes immigrants speak Italian 2011

Mr. Bossi, 69, has been openly at odds with the prime minister on national affairs, including the government's decision to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's air campaign in Libya.

Italian Vote Is a Test for Berlusconi Giada Zampano 2011

ROME—Italians go to the polls in local elections this weekend, a vote that is shaping up as a key test of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ability to hold together his center-right party's governing alliance with the formerly secessionist Northern League of firebrand politician Umberto Bossi.

Italian Vote Is a Test for Berlusconi Giada Zampano 2011

Umberto Bossi, the head of the powerful Northern League party in Berlusconi's coalition, said speeding up reforms had guaranteed that the European Central Bank would buy Italian bonds and prevent them from becoming "waste paper."

Italy's Berlusconi rules out early elections Reuters 2011

Bossi once referred to immigrants as "bingo bongos" and has suggested that migrant smugglers' boats off Italy's shores be fired upon with cannons.

Italy makes immigrants speak Italian 2011

"The numbers are limited," said Umberto Bossi, head of the Northern League.

Berlusconi Survives Key Vote Stacy Meichtry 2010

The Islamophobic, anti-immigrant Northern League of Umberto Bossi in Italy is part of the government in Rome and not accidentally the country's fastest-growing party, now controlling the ultra-wealthy provinces of Veneto and Piemonte.

Pepe Escobar: Letter from Islamophobistan Pepe Escobar 2010

Bossi "represents the extreme" in stands on immigration, said Manuele Bacci, 38, one of a fourth generation of butchers running a shop in Florence's cavernous San Lorenzo covered market.

Italy makes immigrants speak Italian 2011

Umberto Bossi, the head of the powerful Northern League party in Berlusconi's coalition, said speeding up reforms had guaranteed that the European Central Bank would buy Italian bonds and prevent them from becoming "waste paper."

Italy's Berlusconi rules out early elections Reuters 2011