Matteo Salvini's Lega party failed to win a regional election at the weekend but the vote has exposed the weak dynamics underpinning the government in Rome.
Italy's fragile coalition government is breathing a sigh of relief after Matteo Salvini, a prominent right-wing politician, failed to win a closely-watched regional election at the weekend.Salvini, the leader of the opposition anti-immigration Lega party, lost in Emilia-Romagna to the incumbent center-left Democratic Party on Sunday
With most of the votes counted Monday morning, the PD's candidate Stefano Bonaccini was seen with 51% of the vote and his Lega-backed rival, Lucia Borgonzoni, with 44% of the vote.
"However, the likely thin margin of the center-left win in this traditionally leftist stronghold shows once again that Conte's PD-Five Star Movement coalition government rests on rather shaky foundations," he noted. Salvini and his Lega party had been in a coalition government with M5S, but Salvini pulled out of the alliance last summer in a move that was seen as part of a strategy to undermine and bring about the collapse of the government.
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