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Italy’s Anti-Migrant League Tops Five Star in Poll for First Time

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  • Salvini’s League leads SWG opinion poll with 29.2 percent...
  • ...As coalition partner Five Star drops 2.4 points since vote
Matteo Salvini, center, in Rome on June 7, 2018.

Matteo Salvini, center, in Rome on June 7, 2018.

 Photographer: Alessia Pierdomenico/Bloomberg

Italy’s League has overtaken the Five Star Movement in voter support and become the country’s leading party in an opinion poll for the first time, according to a survey by SWG to be be aired on television channel LA7 later on Monday.

Support for the rightist party, led by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, has reached an all-time high of 29.2 percent, compared with 29 percent for Luigi Di Maio’s Five Star, a poll conducted by SWG June 13-18 found. The results were released early by LA7 in a posting on Twitter.