Premier Giorgia Meloni has played
down talk of Transport Minister Matteo Salvini returning to the
interior ministry after he was cleared on Friday of breaking the
law in his handling of asylum seekers when he interior ministry
in a former government.
On Sunday League leader and Deputy Premier Salvini hinted he was
like to return to his former post, saying that "dealing with
security, the future, the peace and serenity of millions of
Italians is something beautiful everyone could aspire to".
He added that his acquittal in the Open Arms trial, in which he
faced kidnapping charges for not allowing 147 migrants to
disembark from an NGO-run rescue ship as part of his
closed-ports policy when he was interior minister five years
ago, took away the 'alibi' for denying him the position.
On Sunday, however, Meloni said she was "happy" with the work
current Interior Matteo Piantedosi was doing.
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