Salvini rallies supporters over snap election call

Hardline Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was pulling out all the stops Saturday to rally supporters for a snap election after he withdrew his League party from an increasingly acrimonious coalition government, plunging the country into turmoil. The far-right Salvini told Rai Uno television on Friday he had had enough of working with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) and what he said was its refusal to work together on key issues during their 14-month alliance. Salvini, a sharp critic of a southern Italy he says has been pampered with state handouts, has made a point of attacking high taxes and the cosy duopoly of French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Europe.

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