crosetto returned active in politics when the deputy daniela santanchè, a right-wing businesswoman and former member of pdl-fi in lombardy, joined meloni's fdi in december 2017. crosetto and santanchè in fdi represented the small and medium-sized enterprises of northern italy in the 2018 general election and they became respectively member of "montecitorio" (the italian chamber of deputies) and senate because the party increased its electoral support surpassing the 4,3% of votes for the first time at national level. crosetto resigned on 13 march 2019 from "montecitorio" and after two days his former seat was assigned to the first candidate on the list of non-elected at the 2018 general election, that is the businesswoman (and member of fdi) lucrezia mantovani. crosetto in april and may 2019, as non-candidate spokesman of the party, helped meloni in the campaign for the european election and fdi (who became a member of ecr) increased its electoral support surpassing the 6,4% of votes for the first time at national level.