Beach Boy Salvini Bids for Full Power While Italy’s on Vacation
- League leader spending August stumping for votes at seaside
- No reason to fear an early election, he says in interview
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Matteo Salvini’s bid for full control of Italy starts on the country’s beaches.
Already the nation’s most popular politician and riding high in the polls, the leader of the League party pulled the plug on a fractious coalition government Thursday and called for swift elections that would likely hand him a majority in parliament. It is a bold move, and doubly so given it comes in the middle of August, when most Italians are giving in to torpor as they seek respite from the summer heat.