ABSTRACT In 2018 Italian general elections, the Lega has dramatically increased its consensus in the ‘red belt’, the central area of the country traditionally ruled by centre-left parties. Pundits have argued that this performance can be attributed to the new leadership of Matteo Salvini, who changed the ideological location of the Lega by transforming it in a national right-wing party. This article hypothesizes that geographical trajectories of diffusion of the party are associated with the prevalence of a neo-fascist minority present in the ‘red belt’ during the First Republic. By employing official electoral results at the municipality level, the article analyses the relationship between the percentages of votes for the MSI in 1976 and the Lega in the 2006–2018 period in Tuscany, Umbria, and Marche. The neo-fascist inheritance results to be associated with the vote for the Lega only in 2018, after the change in the political discourse and leadership of the party.

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红色和黑色：在托斯卡纳，翁布里亚和马尔凯的莱加州选举成功中新法西斯主义的继承

摘要在2018年意大利大选中，莱加大举提高了对``红腰带''的共识，这是该国传统上由中左翼政党统治的中部地区。权威人士认为，这种表现可以归功于Matteo Salvini的新领导，后者通过将其改组为全国右翼政党而改变了Lega的意识形态位置。本文假设，政党扩散的地理轨迹与第一共和国时期“红带”中新法西斯主义少数派的普遍存在有关。通过采用市政当局的官方选举结果，本文分析了托斯卡纳，翁布里亚和马尔凯的1976年MSI投票率和2006-2018年Lega投票率之间的关系。