Italy's Populist Rivalry Goes to Web Vote on Migrant Ship Case
- Five Star holds online poll over League leader’s immunity
- Salvini faces possible charges for detaining migrants at sea
Matteo Salvini with a background image of migrants on Diciotti ship. Rome.
Photographer: Massimo Di Vita/Archivio Massimo/Portfolio via Getty Images
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Italy’s anti-establishment Five Star Movement is putting its rivalry-ridden ruling coalition to a test -- with an online vote.
At stake in Monday’s web poll is whether Five Star should support immunity from prosecution for the anti-immigrant League party leader Matteo Salvini, who faces possible charges for refusing to let a migrant ship dock last summer in his role as interior minister in the coalition government.