Italy's Salvini Wins Senate Panel Support to Block Trial Threat
- Senate’s immunity committee backs head of anti-migrant League
- Salvini in legal case over refusal to allow migrants to dock
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Italian Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini won the support of a key committee in the Rome-based Senate, which voted to block a possible trial in a case that’s strained the fractious populist coalition.
Senators on the immunity committee voted by 16 to 6 against a request from a Sicilian ministers’ tribunal to pursue the case against Salvini, who leads the anti-immigration League, news wire Ansa reported. The case is now expected to go to the full Senate, which is due to vote on it by Feb. 25.