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Salvini Sets Course for European Vote After New Regional Win
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Italy’s Matteo Salvini scored the latest in a series of wins in a regional vote, while another dismal performance by his national government partner cast doubt on the future of the fractious populist coalition.
Vito Bardi, the candidate for the center-right alliance including the League and Forza Italia party of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi, got 42 percent in the southern region of Basilicata, an area that has long been a stronghold of the center-left.