"The right to strike and demonstrate is sacrosanct. When you block me and prevent thousands of workers from going to work, to the factory, to the shop, to school, to the hospital, you are doing wrong to other workers. So everyone can strike, demonstrate, picket, march,‘ but ’if you block the ring road, the railway, a road, a hospital, a factory, you are committing a crime. It seems very simple to me." These were the words of Deputy Prime Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini, speaking on the sidelines of a party event in Rome.