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Italy’s League Surges as Salvini Slams Door on Migrant Ship

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  • Interior minister takes hard line in dispute over migrant boat
  • Government partner Five Star suffers setbacks in local ballots
Migrants look at the coastline as they stand aboard rescue ship MV Aquarius.

Migrants look at the coastline as they stand aboard rescue ship MV Aquarius.

Photographer: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP via Getty Images

Italians rallied behind Interior Minister Matteo Salvini’s decision to block access for an immigrant rescue ship as Spain stepped in to offer shelter to more than 600 people rescued at sea.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday opened the port of Valencia to the migrant vessel which had been left stranded in the Mediterranean after Italy and Malta refused to grant it permission to dock. As the drama played out Sunday, voters in more than 700 towns and cities up and down the country made Salvini’s center-right alliance the big winner in mayoral elections.