Sentiment analysis of the Italian populist politician on Twitter - @GiorgiaMeloni, @beppe_grillo, @matteosalvinimi.

This research aims to analyze the tweets of the foremost Italian populist leaders in order to observe the different communication methods adopted by Giuseppe Grillo, for Movimento 5 Stelle (left-right-wing party), Giorgia Meloni, for Fratelli D' Italia (right-wing party), and Matteo Salvini, for Lega (right-wing party). Furthermore, this analysis includes studying the contents expressed within the tweets through a sentiment and emotion classification. For this reason, the latest tweets of @beppe_grillo (3214), @GiorgiaMeloni (2781), and @matteosalvinimi (3178) were collected for a total of 9173 tweets.