European Parliament majority hopefully not including the Socialists for the first time will end the “madness” of forcing people to buy electric cars later this year, right-wing League party leader, Deputy Premier and Transport Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday.
Brussels is asking EU members to phase out climate crisis fuelling cars over the next few years but Salvini and right-wing allies in the EP are against the pace of the move.
The League leader is hoping that June’s EP elections produce a majority of centre-right and right-wing parties for the first time, dispensing with the need to rely on the Democrat and Socialist caucus, which wants e-cars to come in sooner, to make up the numbers.
“For the first time in history the European Parliament will be able to have a majority without the Left, without the socialists,” Salvini said.
“And this means stopping the madness of the electric-only car and other nonsense”.