candidate for senate, crosetto failed the 2013 election because fdi did not passed the threshold at 3% of the electoral law known as "porcellum". crosetto run in 2014 for the eu parliament, but he was not elected because fdi did not passed the threshold at 4% of the electoral law of 2009 for european election in italy. on the same day of eu election, crosetto ran in the regional election of piedmont as gubernatiorial candidate for fdi that ran alone outside the center-right coalition led by berlusconi's fi: in this election salvini's lega nord was allied with fi against fdi, but after the retirment of crosetto, in september 2014, from politics salvini became more closer to giorgia meloni's fdi because without crosetto the party moved to the right-wing, while fi (member of epp) moved towards the center.