ROME – Members of Italy’s 5-Star Movement (M5S) have voted in favour of parliamentary immunity for League Leader Matteo Salvini, in a poll held on the M5S online platform Rousseau on Monday.

 According to M5S’s online blog, 59 per cent voted to block a kidnapping trial against Mr Salvini, who is being investigated by Sicilian prosecutors for preventing a coastguard ship with some 150 migrants on board from landing in Sicily last year.
 Mr Salvini thanked M5S leader and fellow Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio for behaving in a "fair" way. 

 “I would have thanked him even if the vote had been different because he had expressed himself in a clear way.” 

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