Most are right-wing, like Vlaams Belang in Belgium, the National Front in France, Golden Dawn in Greece, Lega Nord in Italy, the Freedom Party in the Netherlands, the Sweden Democrats and the Swiss People's Party.
Shortly after he took office in May 1994, officials launched a corruption investigation into his business empire, and disputes within the governing coalition culminated in the Lega Nord (Northern League) party's defection in December.
Johnson played professional basketball in the Lega Basket Serie A and Legadue Basket in Italy and Liga Española de Baloncesto in Spain, one season each for Gorizia Pallacanestro A2, Viola Reggio Calabria, Adecco Milano/Ducato Siena, Casademont Girona and Montepaschi Siena.
Their team, first founded in 1912 has never competed in Serie A. This time last year they were playing in the Lega Pro – Italy's third-tier.
The Front National in France, Alternative für Deutschland in Germany and Lega Nord in Italy are just the most known.
Under the proposal, Serie A would have a reserve team for each of its 20 clubs playing in the Lega Pro, the third and fourth tiers.
In 2013, Lega veteran Roberto Calderoli said: "When I see Ms. Kyenge, I cannot but think of the features of an orangutan".
While studying Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oxford, he commuted to Italy to play professional basketball in the Lega Basket Serie A for Olimpia Milano during the 1965 66 season, where the team won a European Champions Cup.
If this is not racism, what is it then?" Since coming to power as part of a coalition government in June, Lega has been accused of unleashing a wave of anti-black racism through the relentless anti-immigration campaign of its leader, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
In February — heartened, he says, by the support for Lega in central Italy — he launched his campaign for the South, where xenophobia can be fuelled by ignorance, fear, and racist propaganda in pretty much equal measure.
In 2013, in the Lega-Pro, the Italian third division, a match between Salernitana and Nocerina was stopped when five players from Nocerina, whose ultras had been banned from attending matches, feigned injury in protest.
